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Book Description
This volume provides a radical and timely corrective to received wisdom about the seemingly inevitable transition from communism to capitalism. Arguing against popular misconceptions that portray collectivized agriculture as an unqualified failure, the contributors draw upon newly available local sources to illuminate its costs, benefits, successes, and failures. They highlight the wide variety of state policies, local responses, and economic outcomes, as well as the influence of local geography, political structures, and economic institutions. With its institutionalist analysis of both the causes and impacts of policy differences, this study provides lessons of continuing relevance to the many countries grappling with agrarian reform.
About the Author
Mieke Meurs is associate professor of economics at American University.
Many Shades of Red,Mieke Meurs,Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,0847690393,Agriculture - Agronomy,Agriculture - General,Agriculture and state,Case studies,Collectivization of agricultur,Collectivization of agriculture,Communist countries,Infrastructure,Political Science,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Public Policy - Economic Policy,Public Policy - Social Policy,Agriculture & related industries,Central government policies,Marxism & Communism,Political Science / Economic Policy,Political structures: democracy
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