Understanding Belarus: economy and political landscape

Ioffe, Grigory

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“…The study region is well suited for agriculture, especially after melioration, liming and fertilization of Podzolic soils (Folch 2000). During the last decades of the Soviet era, the region became one of the primary agricultural areas of the Soviet Union, especially after the failure of the Soviet government to expand wheat cultivation in Kazakhstan (Ioffe 2004, Ioffe et al 2006. The primary summer crops are barley, rye, oats, sugar beets, fodder maize and potatoes, and the primary winter crops are winter wheat, winter barley and winter rapeseed (Gataulina 1992).…”

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“…The Belarusian government allowed privatization of only a small part of its agricultural lands early in the transition period. In 1994, the Belarusian government reversed course and limited land (Drager 2002, Ioffe 2004, Sakovich 2008. Poland was the only country in our study area that allowed private land ownership during socialism, albeit with strong governmental regulations (Turnock 1998).…”

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Effects of institutional changes on land use: agricultural land abandonment during the transition from state-command to market-driven economies in post-Soviet Eastern Europe

Prishchepov

Radeloff

Baumann

et al. 2012

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Effects of institutional changes on land use: agricultural land abandonment during the transition from state-command to market-driven economies in post-Soviet Eastern Europe

Prishchepov

Radeloff

Baumann

et al. 2012

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…The figures for Russia are similar to those of Belarus; for example Linz and Krueger (1998) report that firms in their Russian enterprise sample vary in size between less than 200 and more than 10,000 workers, though 80% of the sample is in the size class between 2000 and 5000 workers. Earle, Estrin and Leschenko (1996) also find comparable employment levels in Russia; average employment in SOEs was around 3000 workers (see also Ioffe (2004)). Thus reform and ownership change has not been much associated with changes in management, even in privatized firms.…”

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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus

Bakanova

Estrin

Pelipas³

et al. 2006

SSRN Journal

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“…An analysis of variation in political trajectories for all former Soviet republics is a book in its own right, and this is merely a brief overview (cf McFaul, 2002;Hale, 2005;Ioffe, 2004). Briefly put, post-Soviet political change has taken three forms.…”

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Russian and Post-Soviet Studies: Politics

Hass

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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Understanding Belarus: economy and political landscape

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Effects of institutional changes on land use: agricultural land abandonment during the transition from state-command to market-driven economies in post-Soviet Eastern Europe

Effects of institutional changes on land use: agricultural land abandonment during the transition from state-command to market-driven economies in post-Soviet Eastern Europe

Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus

Russian and Post-Soviet Studies: Politics

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