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Russian agriculture and food processing: Vertical cooperation and spatial dynamics
Grigory Ioffe,Tatyana Nefedova +1 more
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This paper argued that the Russian scene is viewed through a looking glass of upheavals and political personalities rather than long-term processes and their historical antecedents and roots, and pointed out that there is more continuity to developments in Russia than in the West.Abstract:
IF THERE IS ONE TRAIT that many Western-trained Russia watchers share, it is a 'breaking news' mentality: the Russian scene is viewed through a looking glass of upheavals and political personalities rather than long-term processes and their historical antecedents and roots. Examples of fleeting events that have recently captured imaginations include changes of the guard in the Kremlin,' elections, relationships between top Russian leaders and oligarchs, the drastic devaluation of the ruble, and so forth. The devaluation, in particular, has possessed economic analysts for a long time-which is justifiable but only in a carefully circumscribed context.2 We have repeatedly stressed that there is more continuity to developments inread more
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From Spatial Continuity to Fragmentation: The Case of Russian Farming
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Areas of Crisis in Russian Agriculture: A Geographic Perspective
Grigory Ioffe,Tatyana Nefedova +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, two geographers with extensive experience in assessing developments in Russian agriculture and rural issues focus on changes in regional patterns of agricultural output during the 1990s and propose patterns of soil fertility (bioclimatic potential) and urbanization as spatial factors that have long affected agricultural output in Russia, and their impacts are juxtaposed with aspatial elements of agrarian reform policy introduced at the national level.
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The Russian top-down organised co-operatives – reasons behind the failure
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Russian Agrarian Policy Under Putin
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The theory of peasant co-operatives
TL;DR: The Second World Series by Teodor Shanin this paper describes the process and the concept of Vertical Concentration in the Rural Economy: Peasant Co-operation as an Alternative, which is the basis of our work.
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Environs of Russian cities: A case study of Moscow
Grigory Ioffe,Tatyana Nefedova +1 more
TL;DR: For instance, the authors pointed out that the American suburb and the Russian prigorod evoke different mental associations, despite being locational and direct lexical counterparts of each other, according to any Russian-English or English-Russian dictionary.
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Areas of Crisis in Russian Agriculture: A Geographic Perspective
Grigory Ioffe,Tatyana Nefedova +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, two geographers with extensive experience in assessing developments in Russian agriculture and rural issues focus on changes in regional patterns of agricultural output during the 1990s and propose patterns of soil fertility (bioclimatic potential) and urbanization as spatial factors that have long affected agricultural output in Russia, and their impacts are juxtaposed with aspatial elements of agrarian reform policy introduced at the national level.