Table of Contents

* In Place of an Introduction * Historical Construction of Russias Inter-Urban Space * Russian Agriculture Early in the 20th Century: Social Peculiarities and Spatial Distinctions * The Evolution of Russian Agriculture, 19601990: Organization and Management Priorities * Agricultural Output and Production Factors Prior to the 1990s * Rural Population Change in 19591989 and Rural Infrastructure * Crisis and Reform in the 1990s: The Economic Aspect * Crisis and Reform in the 1990s: Social Implications * The Chernozem Countryside * The Province of Belgorod * The Non-Chernozem Zone * The Province of Yaroslavl * Polarization of the Rural Activity Space * Urbanites in the Countryside * Re-Settlers: A New Diaspora? * Disappearing Crops: A Case Study of Flax in the Province of Kostroma * Large Mechanized Farms * Conclusion

About the Author

George J. Demko is professor of geography at Dartmouth College. Zhanna Zaionchkovskaya is chief of the labouratory for Migration of the Institute for Employment Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of labour, Moscow. Gregory Ioffe is professor of geography at Radford University. Grigory Ioffe is associate professor of geography at Radford University. Tatyana Nefedova is senior researcher at the Institute of Geography at the Russian Academy of Sciences.