A set of measures taken by the state to redistribute land ownership in favor of direct producers, increase their interest in the results of labor, increase in production.
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Agrarian Reforms of the 20th Century in Russia: Impacts on Agricultural Sector and Food Security
Olga Pasko (Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia), Natalia Staurskaya (Omsk State Technical University, Russia), Alexey Gorodilov (Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia), and Alexander Zakharchenko (Institute of the Problems of Northern Development, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1042-1.ch010
Abstract
Current political and economic reforms, as well as the development of market relations and private property rights, need a retrospect to the experience of the past. An ambitious reform implemented by Russian public entities in the early 20th century was a result of a compromise between the government, society, and individuals. The goals of the reforms offered by Pyotr Stolypin were similar to those of the contemporary ones. Stolypin's reforms aimed at the substitution of group type of land use by public property. The reforms were not evolutional but were motivated by the explosive political and social-economic situation. Another agrarian reform took place in the early 1990s in the Soviet bloc, including the USSR. It aimed at state land property and a centrally planned agrarian economy, the domination of big manufacturers like collective and communal farms, and state pricing control. Despite similar basic principles, the states chose different strategies for the implementation of agrarian reforms.