Product Description: The rural reforms in many post-soviet countries produced a number of unintended consequences. The reforms were guided by ideals of romanticized society of family farmers; they were to be the basis of the rural middle-class, together with owners of non-agricultural SME s, acting as guardians of democracy and common good...read more

Product Description: Among the countries of social transformation, Russia has been one of the most contradictory and troubled nations. In 1991 President Yeltsin was a national hero, a representative of the new, democratic Russia and committed to the best principles of "modern" Western societies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: At the turn of the 21st century the political significance of the agrarian population and especially small farmers, was crucial in northern and eastern Europe. They were one of the most important population groups in terms of newly emerging parliamentarism, and also the group on which the new nation states were based...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)