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The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village: Politics and Property Rights in the Black Earth
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ISBN: 0521709318
Author: Allina-Pisano, Jessica
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In the 1990s, as the Soviet Empire lay in ruins, the Russian and Ukrainian governments undertook a project to dismantle the collective farm system that was created under Stalin and in the process privatize an expanse of farmland larger than Australia. Ordinary people were supposed to benefit from the reform, but local government leaders quietly rebelled against it. The end result was the dispossession of millions of rural people. This is the first book to explain why and how this happened through the perspective of a firsthand observer in the Black Earth region.
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The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village: Politics and Property Rights in the Black Earth