Beyond stratification: The emerging class structure in rural Russia

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 372-399

  Wegren, Stephen K ^a   Patsiorkovski, Valeri V ^b   O'Brien, David J ^c  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Institute of Social and Economic Studies of Population   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Classes; Rural economy; Russia; Stratification

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN REFORM; CLASS; RURAL ECONOMY;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 33744486943     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: 14710366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2006.00126.x     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Allina-Pisano, Jessica, 2005. 'Land Reform and the Social Origins of Private Farmers in Russia and Ukraine'. In Rural Adaptation in Russia, ed. Stephen K. Wegren, 127-52. London: Routledge.
2. Amalrik, Andrei, 1970. Involuntary Journey to Siberia. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.
3. Bonnell, Victoria E., 2001. 'Russia's New Entrepreneurs'. In Russia in the New Century: Stability or Disorder? eds Victoria E. Bonnelll and George W. Breslauer, 175-200. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
4. Djilas, Milovan, 1957. The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System. New York: Praeger.
5. Fainsod, Merle, 1958. Smolensk Under Soviet Rule. New York: Vintage Books.
6. Freeland, Chrystia, 2000. Sale of the Century: Russia's Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism. New York: Crown Business.
7. Goldman, Marshall I., 2003. The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry. London: Routledge.
8. Greenstein, Fred I. and Nelson W. Polsby, eds, 1975. Handbook of Political Science: Micropolitical Theory, vol. 2. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
9. Guriev, Sergei and Andrei Rachinsky, 2004. 'Russian Oligarchs: A Quantitative Assessment'. Beyond Transition, 15 (1): 4-5.
10. Gustafson, Thane, 1999. Capitalism Russian-Style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
11. Hoffman, David, 2002. The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia. New York: Public Affairs.
12. Hough, Jerry F., 2000. The Logic of Economic Reform in Russia. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
13. Humphrey, Caroline, 2002. The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies after Socialism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
14. Kalugina, Zemfira, 2000. 'Survival Strategies of Enterprises and Families in the Contemporary Russian Countryside'. In Russian Views of the Transition in the Rural Sector: Structures, Policy Outcomes, and Adaptive Responses, ed. L. Alexander Norsworthy, 118 -31. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
15. Kalugina, Zemfira, 2002. 'Adaptation Strategies of Agricultural Enterprises During Transformation'. In Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia, eds David J. O'Brien and Stephen K. Wegren, 367-84. Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press.
16. Khlop'ev, Alexander, 1996. 'The Transformation of the Social Structure'. In Russian Society in Transition, eds Christopher Williams, Vladimir Chuprov and Vladimir Staroverov, 93-106. Aldershot: Dartmouth.
17. Kitching, Gavin, 1998. 'The Development of Agrarian Capitalism in Russia 1991-1997: Some Observations from Fieldwork'. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 25 (3): 1-30.
18. Klugman, Jeffry, 1989. The New Soviet Elite: How They Think and What They Want. New York: Praeger.
19. Klugman, Jeni and Sheila Marnie, 2001. 'Poverty'. In Russia's Post-Communist Economy, eds Brigette Granville and Peter Oppenheimer, 445-74. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
20. Lerman, Zvi and Karen Brooks, 1996. 'Russia's Legal Framework for Land Reform and Farm Restructuring'. Problems of Post-Communism, 43 (6): 48-58.
21. Matthews, Mervyn, 1972. Class and Society in Soviet Russia. London: Penguin Press.
22. McAuley, Alastair, 1979. Economic Welfare in the Soviet Union: Poverty, Living Standards, and Inequality. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
23. Medvedev, Zhores, A., 1987. Soviet Agriculture. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
24. Meissner, Boris, ed., 1972. Social Change in the Soviet Union: Russia's Path Toward an Industrial Society. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
25. Melin, Harri, 2002. 'Towards a Working Class Society: The Russian Class Structure in the 1990s'. In Restoration of Class Society in Russia? ed. Jouko Nikula, 1-18. Aldershot: Ashgate.
26. Millar, James R., ed., 1987. Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR: A Survey of Former Soviet Citizens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
27. Moore, Barrington Jr., 1966. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
28. Moskoff, William, 1993. Hard Times: Impoverishment and Protest in the Perestroika Years, The Soviet Union 1985-1991. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
29. Nove, Alec, 1976. An Economic History of the USSR. Reprinted and revised edition. Middlesex: Penguin Books.
30. Ob oborote zemel' selskokhozyaystvennogo naznacheniya, 2002. Sobraniye zakonodatel'stva Rossiyskoy Federatsii, 30 (29 July): 7632-42.
31. O'Brien, David J., 2002. 'Entrepreneurial Adaptations of Rural Households: Production, Sales, and Income'. In Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia, eds David J. O'Brien and Stephen K. Wegren, 350-66. Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press.
32. O'Brien, David J. and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, 2006. Measuring Social and Economic Change in Rural Russia. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
33. O'Brien, David J., Valeri V. Patsiorkovski and Larry D. Dershem, 2000. Household Capital and the Agrarian Problem in Russia. Aldershot: Ashgate.
34. O'Brien, David J., Stephen K. Wegren and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, 2004. 'Contemporary Rural Responses to Reform From Above'. The Russian Review, 63 (2): 256-76.
35. Patsiorkovski, V.V., 2003. Sel'skaya Rossiya 1991-2001 gg. Moscow: Finansy i statistika.
36. Paxson, Margaret, 2005. Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Villlage. Washington, DC and Bloomington, IN: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Indiana University Press.
37. Rossiya v tsifrakh, 2005. Moscow: Goskomstat.
38. Serova, Eugenia and Irina Khramova, 2003. 'Farm and Factor Markets in Russia's Agriculture'. In Transition, Institutions, and the Rural Sector, ed. Max Spoor, 61-82. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
39. Silverman, Bertram and Murray Yanowitch, 2000. New Rich, New Poor, New Russia: Winners and Losers on the Russian Road to Capitalism. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
40. Smith, Hedrick, 1976. The Russians, rev. edn. New York: Ballantine Books.
41. Tyurina, A.P., 1982. Sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoye razvitiye Sovetskoy dereveni, 1965-1980. Moscow: Mysl'.
42. Van Attta, Don, 1993. The 'Farmer Threat': The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in Post-Soviet Russia. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
43. Visser, Oane, 2003. 'Farm Restructuring, Property Rights, and Household Strategies in Rural Russia'. In Transition, Institutions, and the Rural Sector, ed. Max Spoor, 83-102. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
44. Wegren, Stephen K., 1996. 'The Politics of Private Farming in Russia'. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 23 (4): 106-40.
45. Wegren, Stephen K., 1998. Agriculture and the State in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
46. Wegren, Stephen K., 2000. 'Socioeconomic Transformation in Russia: Where is the Rural Elite?' Europe-Asia Studies, 52 (2): 237-71.
47. Wegren, Stephen K., 2002. 'Observations on Russia's New Agricultural Land Legislation'. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 43 (8): 651-60.
48. Wegren, Stephen K., 2004a. 'Russian Peasant Farms and Households Plots in 2003: A Research Note'. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 45 (3): 230-9.
49. Wegren, Stephen K., 2004b. 'Russia's Indeterminate Land Privatization: Psychological Aspects'. In Building Market Institutions in Post-Communist Agriculture: Land, Credit, and Assistance, eds David A.J. Macey, William Pyle and Stephen K. Wegren, 33-52. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
50. Wegren, Stephen K., 2005. The Moral Economy Reconsidered: Russia's Search for Agrarian Capitalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
51. Wegren, Stephen K., 2006. 'Land Reform in Post-Communist Russia: The Effects of Household Labor'. Paper presented at the Conference on Land, Poverty, Social Justice, and Development, The Hague, Netherlands, 12-14 January 2006.
52. Wegren, Stephen K., David J. O'Brien and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, 2002. 'Winners and Losers in Russian Agrarian Reform'. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 30 (1): 1-29.
53. Wegren, Stephen K., David J. O'Brien and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, 2003a. 'Why Russia's Rural Poor Are Poor'. Post-Soviet Affairs, 19 (3): 264-87.
54. Wegren, Stephen K., David J. O'Brien and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, 2003b. 'Russia's Rural Unemployed'. Europe-Asia Studies, 55 (6): 847-67.
55. Wegren, Stephen K., David J. O'Brien and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, 2006. 'Social Mobility in Rural Russia: 1995-2003'. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 33 (2): Forthcoming.
56. Willis, David K., 1985. Klass: How Russians Really Live. New York: St Martin's Press.
57. Yanowitch, Murray, 1977. Social and Economic Inequality in the Soviet Union. White Plains, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
58. Yanowitch, Murray, ed., 1986. The Social Structure of the USSR: Recent Soviet Studies. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
59. Yanowitch, Murray and Wesley A. Fisher, eds, 1973. Social Stratification and Mobility in the USSR. White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press.
60. Zaslavsky, Victor, 2001. 'The Russian Working Class in Times of Transition'. In Russia in the New Century: Stability or Disorder? eds Victoria E. Bonnelll and George W. Breslauer, 201-30. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
61. Zemelnyi kodeks Rossiyskoy Federatsii, 2001. Sobraniye zakonodatel'stva Rossiyskoy Federatsii, 44 (29 October): 9175-236.