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Continuity and Change in Rural Russia: A Geographical Perspective

by Grigory Ioffe, Tatyana Nefedova. 320 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Grigory Ioffe, Tatyana Nefedova

Publisher:

   Westview Press

Place of Publication:

  Boulder, CO  

Publication Year:

  1997
Subjects:   Agriculture--Economic Aspects--Russia, Western, Russia, Western--Rural Conditions
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Continuity and Change in Rural Russia: A Geographical Perspective
Book by Grigory Ioffe, Tatyana Nefedova; Westview Press, 1997
Subjects: Agriculture--Economic Aspects--Russia, Western, Russia, Western--Rural Conditions
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...reform -- Russia Federation 2. Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Russia Federation 3. Agriculture and state -- Russia Federation I. Van Atta, Donald...an economist with the Former Soviet Union Section, Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture...University Press, 1983 is still the only book-length Western field study. 3 Gelii Shmelev, "Fakty...
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Policy Directions for U.S. Agriculture: Long-Range Choices in Farming and Rural Living
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