Introduction -- How the other half lives: rural women encounter England's land rights revolution -- Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Republic: the majority as an obstacle to progress? -- "Without land I am nothing!": Kikuyu women and land rights -- Conclusion

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...

Introduction : how do we measure change in rural Russia? -- A macro-level view of change in the Russian countryside -- Central government reforms in agriculture -- Regional responses to reforms -- The transformation of Russian agriculture -- The adaptation of villages and households to the new...

State capitalist analysis-before the Russian revolution, in reaction to Stalin's consolidation of power, and after the Cold War / Vincent Kelly Pollard -- State capitalism versus communism : what happened in the USSR? / Satya Gabriel, Stephen A. Resnick, and Richard D. Wolff -- Labor,...