Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Iván Szelényi / A theoretical framework
  • part Part I Reforms Failures and successes
  • chapter 2 The Hungarian agricultural 'miracle' and the limits of socialist reforms / István Harcsa
  • chapter 3 The alchemy of reform
  • Bulgarian agriculture in the 1980s / Mieke Meurs
  • chapter 4 Cuba: the reluctant reformer / Carmen Diana Deere with The Rural Studies Team of the University of Havana
  • chapter 5 Agrarian change in contemporary rural China / Joshua Muldavin
  • chapter 6 After collectivization
  • Continuity and change in rural China / Mark Selden
  • chapter 7 Agrarian Thermidor
  • Michael Watts / State, decollectivization, and the peasant question in Vietnam
  • part Part II Revolutions / The collapse and restructuring of agrarian systems during the post-communist crisis of transformation
  • chapter 8 The treadmill of socialist reforms and the failures of post-communist 'revolutions' in Russian agriculture
  • Sergei Nickolsky / Is there an alternative?
  • chapter 9 The price of privatization
  • István Harcsa, Imre Kovách, and Iván Szelényi / The post-communist transformational crisis of the Hungarian agrarian system
  • chapter 10 Writing a new song
  • Robert Begg and Mieke Meurs / Path dependency and state policy in reforming Bulgarian agriculture.