The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521879385)

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.

Author: Jessica Allina-Pisano
ISBN-10: 0521879388
ISBN-13: 9780521879385
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2007
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d