From Communism to Capitalism? Russia's Agrarian Relations in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

BRICS varieties of capitalism and food regime reordering: A comparative institutional analysis

“…Under Stalinism, the extraction, appropriation and transfer of physical (labour, food and raw materials) and financial (taxation and unfavourable terms of trade) surpluses generated in agriculture enabled the process of primitive socialist accumulation and soviet industrialization at high human costs, redressed thereafter with the deployment of an extensive social welfare system attached to the workplace. However, if the postsoviet neoliberal reforms and state withdrawal opened the way for the expansion of new farming models based on the private property of land, this achieved poor results, basically through lease arrangements, without significant changes in the agrarian structure or increased productivity, but with pronounced deterioration in the provision of rural services (Wegren, 2004). Russia's modest economic performance and social transformation hinge on combined dynamic between stateowned and private sectors, driven by oil and gas-extractive industry, the military-industrial complex, finance and domestic consumption (Medeiros, 2011).…”

Brazilian education system: Aims, achievements and alignment with the BRICS organisation

“…It is regarded as a discharge of tension. Wegren (2005) explains that the Russian household is reliant upon all of its members. Most households are small, often with only a single child, because most women have to work outside the house, in addition to bearing the sole accountability for household and child-raising chores.…”

The value of international cooperation in education

“…It is regarded as a discharge of tension. Wegren (2005) explains that the Russian household is reliant upon all of its members. Most households are small, often with only a single child, because most women have to work outside the house, in addition to bearing the sole accountability for household and child-raising chores.…”