Post-soviet potemkin village, the: politics and property rights in the black earth
Auteur :
Allina-Pisano, Jessica
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521879385
Date de publication :
24 sept. 2007
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,7 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
530 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In the 1990s, the Russian and Ukrainian governments undertook a project to privatize the collective farms created under Stalin. Under the guise of benefiting former farm employees, the plan instead dispossessed millions of rural people and created a Potemkin village for the post-Soviet era.