Lexington Books
Pages: 394
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-2009-5 • Hardback • November 2007 • $162.00 • (£125.00)
Zvi Lerman is professor and Sir Henry d'Avigdor Goldsmid Chair in Agricultural Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part 2 Part I. Changing Farm Structure
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Large and Small Business in Russian Agriculture
Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Development of Peasant Farms: The Case of Tambov Oblast in Central Russia
Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Agroholdings: Russia's New Agricultural Operators
Part 6 Part II. Developing Factor Markets
Chapter 7 Chapter 5. Land Reform and Development of Land Markets
Chapter 8 Chapter 6. Completing Agricultural Land Reform in Russia: A Western View of Outstanding Policy and Legal Issues
Chapter 9 Chapter 7. Rural and Agricultural Labor Markets
Chapter 10 Chapter 8. Markets for Purchased Farm Inputs
Chapter 11 Chapter 9. Farm Finances and Access to Credit
Part 12 Part III. Productivity and Efficiency of Russian Agriculture
Chapter 13 Chapter 10. The Allocative Efficiency of Input Use in Russian Corporate Farms
Chapter 14 Chapter 11. Allocative Efficiency of Corporate Farms: Evidence from the 2003 BASIS Survey
Chapter 15 Chapter 12. Allocative Efficiency of Corporate Farms: Evidence from National Data
Chapter 16 Chapter 13. Allocative Efficiency of Corporate Farms in Leningrad Oblast
Chapter 17 Chapter 14. Technical Efficiency in Russian Agriculture
Chapter 18 Chapter 15. Summary
Zvi Lerman has assembled an impressive group of scholars from Russia, the United States, and Israel for this book, and it will become a useful reference for students of the transformation of Russian agriculture. The sector receives far less attention from analysts than most others, and a book that helps correct that imbalance is always welcome. Furthermore, in the Russian context, the factor markets not directly connected to land reform and the peasant farms it was intended to create often go understudied, and this volume helps fill the gap. . . . Russian Agriculture in Transition brings together quality scholars, supplements existing data with original surveys, and focuses on traditionally neglected aspects of Russian agriculture. Its data and insights will be of use to analysts of the sector for many years.
— Slavic Journal, Fall 2009