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Title

The postsocialist agrarian question : property relations and the rural condition / Chris Hann and the "Property Relations" Group.

Author

Tázlár Workshop (2002 : Tázlár, Hungary)

Publication

Münster : Lit ; Piscataway, N.J. : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Hann, C. M., 1953-
• "Property Relations" Group.

Description

x, 472 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"This is an age of neo-liberalism, in which the advantages and virtues of private property are often taken for granted. Postsocialist governments have privatized and broken up state farms and socialist cooperatives. However, economic outcomes and the social insecurity now experienced by many rural inhabitants highlight the need for a broader anthropological analysis of property relations, which goes beyond changes in legal form. A century after Kautsky addressed 'The Agrarian Question' in Germany, it is therefore necessary to address a postsocialist Agrarian Question throughout Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and China." "The studies collected here derive from the first cycle of projects at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. They are prefaced by a substantial introduction by Chris Hann, a Founding Director of the Institute."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Halle studies in the anthropology of Eurasia ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Halle studies in the anthropology of Eurasia v. 1.

Subject

• 1990-2000
• 2000-2010
• Land reform > Eurasia > Congresses
• Land tenure > Eurasia > Congresses
• Post-communism > Eurasia > Congresses
• Eurasia > Rural conditions > Congresses

Note

• Chiefly papers originally presented at the Tázlár Workshop held in June 2002 in Tázlár, Hungary.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface to the Series / Chris Hann -- Preface / Chris Hann -- 1. Introduction: Decollectivisation and the Moral Economy / Chris Hann -- 2. Cooperative Entrepreneurs? Collectivisation and Privatisation of Agriculture in Two East German Regions / John Eidson and Gordon Milligan -- 3. Trust and Property in Historical Perspective: Villagers and the Agricultural Cooperative in Kiralyfa, Southern Slovakia / Davide Torsello -- 4. The Great Transformation in Rural Hungary: Property, Life Strategies, and Living Standards / Chris Hann and Mihaly Sarkany -- 5. Coping with Economic Devastation: Agriculture in Post-War Knin, Croatia / Carolin Leutloff-Grandits -- 6. Private Farming in Romania: What Are the Old People Going to Do with Their Land? / Andrew Cartwright -- 7. Property Restitution and Natural Resource Use in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria / Barbara A. Cellarius -- 8. Retreat to the Cooperative or to the Household? Agricultural Privatisation in Ukraine and Azerbaijan / Deema Kaneff and Lale Yalcin-Heckmann -- 9. Cooperation, Power, and Community: Economy and ideology in the Russian Countryside / Liesl L. Gambold Miller and Patrick Heady -- 10. Volga Farmers and Arctic Herders: Common (Post)Socialist Experiences in Rural Russia / Patty A. Gray -- 11. Between Neo-Liberalism and Dirigisme: Approaches to Reindeer Herding in Yamal and Sakha / Florian Stammler and Aimar Ventsel -- 12. 'Horseradish Is No Sweeter than Turnips': Entitlements and Sustainability in the Taimyr Autonomous Region, Northern Russia / John P. Ziker -- 13. Social Security in Kamchatka: Rural and Urban Comparisons / Alexander D. King -- 14. The Moral Economy of Kinship and Property in Southern China / Susanne Brandtstadter -- 15. The Postsocialist Agrarian Situation in Southern Ethiopia / Wolde Gossa Tadesse.

ISBN

3825865320

OCLC

• 52395952
• SCSB-12697425

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library