The Post-Collective Village: A Tale of Two Transitions

Herrold-Menzies, Melinda

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.11.006

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“…Many assets within the former Soviet farms were indivisible because Soviet agriculture was highly mechanised and capital-intensive. Thus division of the equipment in an equitable, rational and useful way was difficult and costly (Herrold-Menzies, 2009). …”

Section: Costs Of Risk Bearing Associated With Receipt Of Residual Eamentioning

confidence: 99%

Governance of Production Co‐operatives in Russian Agriculture

Nilsson

Golovina

Heß

et al. 2016

Ann Public Coop Econ

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Many Soviet kolkhozy and sovkhozy were transformed into agricultural production co-operatives, because the farm workers would have had large transaction costs in any other type of organisation. These co-operatives still hold a strong market position. This study explores the hypothesis that this market strength could be due to low governance costs, obtained through strong manager power. As managers want the co-operative to survive, they make limited investments in the co-operative and pay low wages. The members do, however, not consider this to be problematic. They appreciate the community within the village, their private plots of land and the co-operative's services. Hence the existence of the co-operatives is not threatened.

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Section: Costs Of Risk Bearing Associated With Receipt Of Residual Eamentioning

confidence: 99%

Governance of Production Co‐operatives in Russian Agriculture

Nilsson

Golovina

Heß

et al. 2016

Ann Public Coop Econ

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“…The entitlements to land were of a certain size, but they did not establish a direct link between a specific plot of land and a certain individual. On average, worker members of the Soviet farms were each entitled to 14–16 hectares (Herrold-Menzies, 2009). However, these shares were “paper-shares” and it took a second step requiring effort and finance to get these transferred into ownership titles to specific land plots (Rozelle and Swinnen, 2004).…”

Section: Institutional Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reviewing changing institutional conditions for private farming in Russia

Wolz

Golovina²,

Nilsson

et al. 2016

Outlook Agric

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With independence and the abolition of the Soviet era's planned economy the dominant organisations of agricultural production, i.e. kolkhozes and sovkhozes, had become obsolete. These organisations had to be restructured and family farms, or more generally private farms, were supposed to form the backbone of farm production. However, development since then has been difficult. Based on a literature review, this study reviews and assesses this development in terms of the changing institutional conditions. The Russian government's policies, by interchangeably supporting large-scale farming organisations or private farming, have created uncertainties for private farmers. Russian farmers were once strongly influenced by the mentality from Soviet times, but there are indications that they are gaining strength, possibly as a consequence of a more benevolent political order, more entrepreneurial attitudes and developing organisational arrangements.

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“…Although we are not aware of any detailed comparative study, one can claim that at the onset of transition the urban to rural income gap was much higher in China (a country then at an early stage of industrialisation) than in Russia. True, living standards in rural China have improved during transition while they deteriorated during the 1990s in rural Russia, making cross-country differences smaller (Herrold-Menzies, 2009). However, urban incomes have moved in the same direction as rural incomes for both countries: in China, rapid increases, and in Russia, rapid decreases for several years followed by increases.…”

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Why are household incomes more unequally distributed in China than in Russia?

Gustafsson¹,

Li²,

Nivorozhkina

2011

Cambridge Journal of Economics

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The Post-Collective Village: A Tale of Two Transitions

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Governance of Production Co‐operatives in Russian Agriculture

Governance of Production Co‐operatives in Russian Agriculture

Reviewing changing institutional conditions for private farming in Russia

Why are household incomes more unequally distributed in China than in Russia?

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