Agrarian reforms in Russia: Road from slavery

The book explores the history of Russian agriculture reforms and the main episodes of the state’s participation in the transformation of the agricultural sector: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, Stolypin reforms, NEP, collectivization, Khrushchev reforms and, finally, privatization of agricultural enterprises in the early 1990s. The author shows what model, due to political reasons, agriculture developed in tsarist times, in the Soviet and post -Soviet periods. We see how agrarian reforms were justified by national interests during difficult crisis situations - high inflation, military defeats, mass strikes, peasant riots and/or political unrest. In addition, the measures of economic policy aimed at reorganizing the agricultural sector are considered, and their effectiveness is clarified in the course of institutional transformations