"Private Landholding" in Russia: Traditions and the Present Time

Abstract

In Russia in the 1990s the land reform was carried out, but the essential characteristics of newly organized agricultural enterprises are not so different from those of former kolkhozy and sovkhozy, and private farmers (fermery) did not develop rapidly contrary to the expectations of the power. This report aims to look at the historical background of these contemporary problems with the special comments on peasant commune in the 1920s, and collectivization of agriculture in the 1930s. This report also introduces the interesting viewpoint of a Russian scholar, I. E. Koznova, on this subject.