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...Stephen Brain The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom . By Tracy Dennison . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . 274 pp., $103.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-521-19448-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews Before [collectivization...

...Amanda Brickell Bellows The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s . By David Moon . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 352 pp., $120.00 , hardback, ISBN 9781107103603. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 Book...

...John B. Seitz Abstract On the eve of the twentieth century, plant explorers from the United States such as Neils E. Hansen traveled to Russian Central Asia in search of new cold-hardy and drought-resistant alfalfa varieties. Hansen’s travels and the work of other alfalfa boosters would help create...

...Martin T. Fromm [email protected] Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border . By Sören Urbansky . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2020 . 392 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780691181684. Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society...

...David W. Darrow No two entities would seem to defy comparison more than the United States and the Russian Empire, if for no other reason than that politicians, ideologues, and historians have invested a lot of time in demonstrating their exceptionalism, manifest destinies, and divinely ordained...

...Sarah Cameron [email protected] Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food . By Suzanne A. Wengle . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2022 . 328 pp., $29.95, paperback, ISBN 9780299335441 . Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural...

...Peter Fraunholtz Abstract The Russian provisional government and Bolshevik regime, in their respective efforts to address and resolve the food-supply crisis of 1917–19, sought to modernize state-village relations and mobilize peasant-citizens to contribute to the task according to their ability...

...Christine Ruane [email protected] The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food . By Darra Goldstein . Oakland : University of California Press , 2022 . 200 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 9780520383890 . Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History Society 2024...

... on its own terms. For while groups such as the NERC and the Friends of Soviet Russia sought to buttress the fledgling Soviet state and reconstruct Russian agriculture, the ARA was not interested in supporting the Soviet regime. 4 According to the NERC, the ARA's exclusive focus on feeding children...

... The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom. By Tracy Dennison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 274 pp., $103.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-521-19448-8. Tracy Dennison s book aims to undermine one of Russian history s most enduring assumptions: the belief that the Russian peasants values differed...

... of these migrants were Americans who themselves or whose families had emigrated from the former Russian empire. They largely went into agriculture when they arrived in the Soviet Union, see, Andrea Graziosi , A New, Peculiar State: Explorations in Soviet History, 1917–1937 ( Westport, Conn. : Praeger...

... The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia s Grasslands, 1700 1914. By David Moon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 344 pp., £69.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-955643-4. This monograph offers an excellent, detailed study of a unique and endangered environmentthe Russian steppe...

.... Montreal: McGill-Queen s University Press, 2018. 376 pp., $44.95, hardback, ISBN 9780-7735-5507-5. Few subjects in Russian history have garnered as much as attention as the peasant or agrarian question how to increase agricultural productivity while preserving political stability and peasant support...

... i tekniki RAN, 2008. 968 pp., price unknown, hardback, ISBN 978-5-9539-2649-2. The adjectives most often used to describe Russian agriculture include "backward" and "blighted." This negative impression has been reinforced by histories produced both inside and outside ofRussia that are devoted...

... in a Soviet Village. Compiled by Anne Borders Lynch. Raleigh, N.C: Pentland Press, 1999. 288 pp., $18.95, paperback, ISBN 1-57197-082-7. Two Years in Russia: 1925-1927 consists of the memoirs of an Ameri? can family who lived in the Russian countryside in the northern Caucasus Book Reviews / 131...

...), from 1600 to 2000. Over ten individual essays, this book argues that efforts to represent, exploit, transform, and adapt to the natural environment formed the core of state-building agendas of the many empires active in the area, including the Chinese, Russian, and Japanese polities. In addition, human...

...: Agriculture and Environment on Russia s Grasslands, 1700 1914. By David Moon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 344 pp., £69.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-955643-4. This monograph offers an excellent, detailed study of a unique and endangered environmentthe Russian steppe a vast sea of grass that once...

... Reviews 403 as the basis for her narrative in Pipe Dreams. Examining sources from archives in the Russian Federation, the United States, and several countries throughout Central Asia, the author highlights the environmental catastrophe that resulted from both Tsarist and Soviet policy in the region...

... became interested in history as a way to expand my horizons. The UCLA History Department offered me a four-year fellowship. I had already begun studying Russian, my fifth language, and in the 1980s the USSR seemed to be the most important country to study. My advisor, the late Professor Hans Rogger...

..., ISBN 978-5-9539-2649-2. The adjectives most often used to describe Russian agriculture include "backward" and "blighted." This negative impression has been reinforced by histories produced both inside and outside ofRussia that are devoted to the failures of agricultural reforms and detail a general...