The Food Revolution In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe
The Food Revolution In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe

Author: Robert Deutsch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1000301486

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The first study in the Western world to compare the relationship between food and politics in the countries of Eastern Europe, this book views the current food revolution as part of the modernization process. Robert Deutsch argues that the communist leaders in the Comecon countries increasingly link political stability and preservation of power to the problem of satisfying consumer demand. He also assesses the various social forces that have brought about the food revolution. The most important is the expanded working class, which is no longer willing to defer consumer demands to a hypothetical communist future. The CMEA countries thus face the dilemma of either gradually liberalizing their economies in order to meet growing consumer demands or resorting to repression. Neither of these options promises a long-term solution for implementing economic policies prescribed by Marxist-Leninist doctrine. Robert Deutsch presents case studies of Hungary, Bulgaria, and the German Democratic Republic as examples of the "relative success" of economic reforms. To a greater or lesser extent, these countries have opted for economic decentralization by liberalizing private ownership and pricing policy and by integrating planning with market-oriented concepts. The author compares this with the economic problems of the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia. The study is enhanced by an exhaustive bibliography, arranged topically and drawn from the specialized literature in several languages.

Famine in European History
Famine in European History

Author: Guido Alfani

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-08-31

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1107179939

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The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages to present. It compares the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine in regional case studies by leading experts to form a comprehensive picture of when and why food security across the continent became a critical issue.

Russia's Food Revolution
Russia's Food Revolution

Author: Stephen K. Wegren

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-21

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1000178870

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This book analyzes the food revolution that has occurred in Russia since the late 1980s, documenting the transformation in systems of production, supply, distribution, and consumption. It examines the dominant actors in the food system; explores how the state regulates food; considers changes in patterns of food trade interactions with other states; and discusses how all this and changing habits of consumption have impacted consumers. It contrasts the grim food situation of 1980s and 1990s with the much better food situation that prevails at present and sets the food revolution in the context of the wider consumer revolution, which has affected fashion, consumer electronics, and other sectors of the economy.

East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union
East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union

Author: Michael Bradshaw

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1317905024

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A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this increasingly popular area of study. Employing a groundbreaking thematic approach the book centres its discussion on the interrelation between contemporary development theories and continuing transition issues in this huge and complex region.

The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics
The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics

Author: Donnacha Ó Beacháin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-07-12

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1136951970

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This book explores the origins and effects, successes and failures of "colour revolutions" in the former Soviet Republics - the non-violent protests which succeeded in overthrowing post-communist authoritarian regimes, for example in Georgia in 2003, Ukraine in 2004 and Kyrgyzstan in 2005.

Russia’s Role in the Contemporary International Agri-Food Trade System
Russia’s Role in the Contemporary International Agri-Food Trade System

Author: Stephen K. Wegren

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-11-11

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 3030774511

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This Open Access book analyses the emergence of Russia as a global food power and what it means for global food trade. Russia's strategy for food production and trade has changed significantly since the end of the Soviet period, and this is the first book to take account of Russia's rise as a food power and the global implications of that rise. It includes food trade policy and practice, and developments in regional food trade. This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners in agricultural economics, international trade, and international food trade.

Soviet Union to Commonwealth
Soviet Union to Commonwealth

Author: Kalipada Deb

Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9788185880952

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This studies makes an in-depth analysis of the nature of transformation that came over the decades. It also looks into the prospect of the Commonwealth, and the capitalist reforms going on in different countries.

Reluctant Cold Warriors
Reluctant Cold Warriors

Author: Vladimir Kontorovich

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-09-02

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0190868147

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Scholars attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union in part to the militarization of its economy. But during the Cold War, economic studies of the USSR largely neglected the military sector of the Soviet economy-its dominant and most successful part. This is all the more puzzling in that academic study of the Soviet economy in the US was specifically created to help fight the Cold War. If the rival superpower maintained the peacetime war economy, why did experts fail to tell us when it mattered? Vladimir Kontorovich shows how Western economists came up with strained non-military interpretations of several important aspects of the Soviet economy which the Soviets themselves acknowledged to have military significance. Such "civilianization" suggests that the neglect of the military sector was not forced on scholars of the Soviet economy by secrecy; it was their choice. The explanation of this choice in Reluctant Cold Warriors raises many questions about the internal workings of economic Sovietology and its intellectual and political background. Are peripheral academic fields mimicking the agenda of the discipline's mainstream more likely to produce faulty scholarship? Did the search for the essence of socialism distract researchers from the actual Soviet economy? Were economic Sovietologists under political pressure, and if so, in what direction? This book answers these questions in a way that has broad relevance for national security uses of social science today.

Rules of Competition and East-West Integration
Rules of Competition and East-West Integration

Author: Michael Fritsch

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 146156087X

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Integration of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) into the European Union (EU) has become more a question of timing than a question whether it will or should be made. Since one of the objectives of the EU is to establish a system ensuring competition in the internal market is not distorted the question arises if the CEECs can be integrated into such a competitive system. Which rules of competition are appropriate to improve the economic integration of the CEECs and to promote at the same time the enduring transition process? The relationship between competition policy and East-West integration is the general theme of the contributions in this book. One central issue of this volume is the way of integrating the Central and East European countries into the EU and supporting their development by liberalizing trade with the EU. A second issue is the implementation of a market economy in the post-socialist countries of Eastern Europe and in particular the aspect of implementing competition rules at a time when markets are just emerging. The twelve selected papers are organized in three sections: -Competition Policy and Integration (part 1); -Competition Policy During Transition (part 2); -Competition, Trade Policy and East-West-Integration (part 3).