The Postsocialist Agrarian Question: Property Relations and the Rural Condition

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LIT Verlag Münster, 2003 - History - 472 pages

This is an age of neo-liberalism, in which the advantages and virtues of private property are often taken for granted. Post-socialist governments have privatized and broken up state farms and socialist cooperatives. However, economic outcomes and the social insecurity now experienced by many rural inhabitants highlight the need for a broader anthropological analysis of property relations, which go beyond changes of legal form. A century after Kautsky addressed "The Agrarian Question" in Germany, it is necessary to address a post-socialist Agrarian Question throughout Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and China.

The studies collected here derive from the first cycle of projects carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. They are prefaced by a substantial introduction by Chris Hann.

Chris Hann is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/ Saale.

 

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TitleThe Postsocialist Agrarian Question: Property Relations and the Rural Condition
Volume 1 of Halle studies in the anthropology of Eurasia
AuthorC. M. Hann
EditorsC. M. Hann, "Property Relations" Group
ContributorC. M. Hann
PublisherLIT Verlag Münster, 2003
ISBN3825865320, 9783825865320
Length472 pages
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