Putting Food on What Was the Soviet Table

Claudon, Michael P. Gutner, Tamar L. Editors

ISBN 10: 0814714765 / ISBN 13: 9780814714768

Published by New York University Press, New York, 1992

VG+ Hardback in VG+ dust jacket. xii + 142p. Seller Inventory # 085402

Synopsis:

A review of immediate policy options on a subject of broad international importance - how to feed the Soviet people in a time of collapse of Soviet central authority. Based on a Geonomics Fall 1991 seminar, 12 Western and Soviet experts argue that massive food aid from the West is, at best, a temporary solution. Short-term humanitarian aid must be combined with a long-term programme that reduces waste; develops the infrastructure, from roads to warehouses; replaces state-controlled distribution and prices with free trade and market prices; and empowers the individual farmer. Striving for the commercial viability of state and collective farms, rather than immediate agrarian privitisation, offers the best route to sustainable agrarian reform. Contributors are Keith Bush, John Cavanaugh, Kenneth Gray, Elmira Krylatych, Vera Matusevich, Allan Mustard, Ivar Raig, Barbara Severin, Gelii Shmelev, Vladimir Tikhonov, Don Van Atta, and Karl-Eugen-Wadekin.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Putting Food on What Was the Soviet Table
Publisher: New York University Press, New York
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
Book Type: Used