"Since its founding, the government of the People's Republic of China has strived to transform rural production, the theme of this volume of History of Contemporary China. Fourteen articles translated from the Chinese journal Contemporary History (Dangdai Zhongguo shi yanjiu) offer both...

Introduction, adaptation and change : old problems, new approaches / Stephen K. Wegren and David J. O'Brien -- Adaptation of Russian agriculture to a market economy. Entrepreneurship and the Siberian peasant commune in late imperial Russia / Igor V. Volgine. The impact of land reform on the...

"A compilation of policy-relevant research by a multidisciplinary group of scholars on the state of families in rural America in the twenty-first century. Examines the impact of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they...