Trotsuk I.V. A few words about (un)certainty and its management in the rural part of the contemporary uncertain world // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2023. V.8. №4. P. 174-182.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2023-8-4-174-182

Annotation

Review of the book: Scoones I. (Ed.) (2023) Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Development, Rugby: Practical Action Publishing. 180 p. URL: https://practicalactionpublishing.com/ book/2667/pastoralism-uncertainty-and-development

About the author

Irina V. Trotsuk, DSc (Sociology), Professor, Sociology Department, RUDN University; Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Intercenter, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. Vernadskogo Prosp., 82. Moscow, 119571.
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Nikulin A.M., Nikulina E.S. Man in search of eco-community // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2023. V.8. №3. P. 190-195.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2023-8-3-190-195

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Book review: Polsky I. (2022) The Man Who Was Ahead of Time, Moscow: Association for the Development of Natural Beekeeping, 380 p. ISBN 978-5-6047923-0-8

About the authors

Alexander M. Nikulin, PhD (Economics), Head of the Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Vice-Rector for Research, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. Prosp. Vernadskogo, 82, Moscow, 119571.
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Ekaterina S. Nikulina, Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Prosp. Vernadskogo, 82 Moscow, 119571, Russia.
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Merl S. Foundations of the ‘agricultural miracle’ in communist Hungary // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2023. V.8. №3. P. 185-189.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2023-8-3-185-189

Annotation

Review of the book: Varga Z. The Hungarian Agricultural Miracle? Sovietization and Americanization in a Communist Country. Transl. by F. T. Zsigó. Lexington Books, Lanham et al. 2021, xxix, 323 pp.

About the author

Stephan Merl, DSc (History), Professor, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr., 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany.
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Trotsuk I.V. Agroholding – great and terrible? // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2023. V.8. №2. P. 166-181.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2023-8-2-166-181

Annotation

Review of the book: Uzun V.Ya., Shagaida N. I., Gataulina E. A., Shishkina E. A. (2022). Holdings in the Russian Agricultural Business. Moscow: RANEPA’s Publishing House “Delo”. — 344 p. ISBN 978-5-85006-446-4

About the author

Irina V. Trotsuk, DSc (Sociology), Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Professor, Sociology Department, RUDN University. Prosp. Vernadskogo, 82, Moscow, 119571.
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Merl S. Red channels of the Kuban Black-Earth Region // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2023. V.8. №2. P. 159-165.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2023-8-2-159-165

Annotation

Review of the book: Schönfelder T., Fluss R., Erde S. Der Kuban und der agromeliorative Komplex. Eine sowjetische Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte 1929–1991. (Geschichte der technischen Kultur, Bd. 14), Brill Schöningh: Paderborn, 2022, XI + 324 s.

About the author

Stephan Merl, DSc (History), Professor, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr., 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany.
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Kurakin A.A. Consumer cooperation in the countryside: Reasons for failure // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2023. V.8. №1. P. 164-170.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2023-8-1-164-170

Annotation

Book review: Antonova M. P., Gataulina E. A., Potapova A. A., Skomorokhov S.N. (2022). Why is agricultural consumer cooperation not developing in Russia? Opinions of participants in the process of agricultural cooperation in questions and answers. Moscow: Publishing House “Delo” RANEPA. — 248 p. ISBN 978-5-85006-415-0

About the author

Alexander A. Kurakin, Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidental Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Vernadskogo Prosp., 82, Moscow, 119571, Russia.
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Poleshchuk I. K. Extractivism of the Far North: Ways to resolve conflicts // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2022. V.7. №4. P. 165-172.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2022-7-4-165-172

Annotation

Book Review: «Resource Curse» and Social Expertise in Post-Soviet Siberia: Anthropological Perspectives /D. A. Funk, V. V. Poddubikov, E. V. Miskova [and others]. Moscow : Demos Typography LLC, 2019. — 312 p.

About the author

Ilya K. Poleshchuk, Junior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidental Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Prosp. Vernadskogo, 82, Moscow, 119571.
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Krylatykh E. N., Frolova E. Yu. On the book by V. F. Bashmachnikov with associates and like-minded people Family Farming: Potential and Practice of Development // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2022. V.7. №4. P. 148-164.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2022-7-4-148-164

Annotation

Book Review: Bashmachnikov V. F. with colleagues and like-minded people. There Should be Аarming in Russia. Vol. II. Family–Type Farming: Potential, Development Practice. Moscow: Brain Print LLC, 2022 — 480 p.

About the authors

Elmira N. Krylatykh, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, DSc (Economics), Chief Researcher of the A. A. Nikonov VIAPI — branch of the FSBI FNC VNIIESH. Bolshoj Haritonevskij Per., d. 21, str. 1. Moscow, 107078.
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Elena Y. Frolova, PhD (Economics), Leading Researcher of the A. A. Nikonov VIAPI — branch of the FSBI FNC VNIIESH. Bolshoj Haritonevskij Per., d. 21, str. 1. Moscow, 107078.
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Shirokostup O. A cultural worker’s reflections on Alexander Chayanov’s peasant meta-utopia // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2022. V.7. №4. P. 133-147.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2022-7-4-133-147

About the author

Olga Y. Shirokostup, Curator, Independent Researcher, Visiting Lecturer in the Master’s program Practices of Contemporary Art and Curatorship (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and HSE). 127474, Moscow, Dmitrovskoe Sh., 40.
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Zubkov A. N. Cooperation within Russia’s food security system // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2026. V.11. №3. P. 302-309.

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Annotation

Review of the book: Altukhov A. I., Vinichenko M. V., Kaurova O. V., Maloletko A. N., Semin A. N., Silaeva L. P., Tkach A. V. (2025) Cooperatives in Russia’s Food Security System / Ed. by A. I. Altukhov. Moscow: INFRA-M. — 363 p. (Scientific Thought).

About the author

Artem N. Zubkov, Chairman of the Committee of the Voronezh Regional Duma on State Policy, Local Self-Government and Regulations. Kirov St., 2, Voronezh, 394018, Russia.
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