Bread and autocracy : food, politics, and security in Putin's Russia /

"Food has been crucial to the functioning and survival of governments and regimes since the emergence of early states. Only in a few countries is the connection between food and politics as pronounced as in Russia. Virtually every significant development in Russian and Soviet history since the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Azarieva, Janetta (Author), Brudny, Yitzhak M. (Author), Finkel, Evgeny, 1978- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Food supply > Political aspects > Russia (Federation) Food security > Russia (Federation) Russia (Federation) > Politics and government. Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations. Aliments > Approvisionnement > Aspect politique > Russie. Sécurité alimentaire > Russie. International Relations. POLITICAL SCIENCE. Intelligence & Espionage. Russian & Former Soviet Union. World. Food supply > Political aspects Russia (Federation) Diplomatic relations Food security Politics and government Industry & industrial studies. Farming and Country Life. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Russia's nutritional autocracy
The starving empire: Food and politics in the USSR
Food and market: The hungry, 1991-1993
Farmers will not feed Russian: The failure of Yeltsin's agrarian reforms
The rise of grain, 2000-2010
Food, security, and food security
Sanctions and countersanctions
Top feeders: The government and Russia's agro- capitalism
The COVID-19 food crisis, 2020-2021
The war in Ukraine and Russia's food politics
Conclusion.