Russia's Incomplete Land Reform

Author(s): Stephen Wegren
Editor(s): Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 64
Pages: 2-5
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2009

Russia's contemporary land reform remains incomplete because very little actual land was distributed to private individuals. The Medvedev government is faced with correcting the shortcomings inherited from previous land reform policies. The task is complicated because original land reform distributed land shares held as collective share property.

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