Introduction. Special Issue — Differentiation in contemporary rural societies / 6

Theory

Chayanov A. V. A short review of the centers of economic thought in the field of agriculture in Europe and other countries (based on the book exchange and scientific correspondence of the Institute of Agricultural Economics) / 10

Nikulin A. M., Trotsuk I. V. Utopias of Alexander Bogdanov and Alexander Chayanov: The choice of rural-urban development and its consequences for rural human capital and social differentiation / 23

Ershov A. M. International typologies of rural areas / 41

History

Diaz-Geada A. Class differentiation in contemporary rural Galiza: A first approach / 54

Crovetto M. M. Peasants and agricultural wageworkers in Argentina in the 20th — 21st centuries: Some paradoxes of the dichotomy ‘rural–urban’ / 72

Khorasani Zadeh H. The rise of the peasant land ownership as a driver of social-spatial differentiation in contemporary rural Veneto and French Flanders / 83

The present time

Nefedova T. G. Tatarstan: rural-urban development under the spatial trends of 1990–2020 / 102

Andreeva J. O. “Fairyland”: Kin’s domain as a place of utopia and experiment / 121

Averkieva K. V. Rural gentrification: City dwellers in rural areas of Russia’s Non-Chernozem Region / 137

Korolev C. M. Casus Pyalmiae: A city dweller and his village / 152

Reviews

Trotsuk I.V. A few words about (un)certainty and its management in the rural part of the contemporary uncertain world / 174

Kurakin A.A. The beginning of economic reforms in rural China / 183

Scientific life 

Merl S. A short note on the 7th International Conference of the European Rural History Organization (EURHO) in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) on September 11–14, 2023 / 188

Theory

Gordon A.V. The phenomenon of protest in peasant culture / 6

Rogozin D.M. Peasant son Anton Bolshakov (1887–1941): A scientific obituary of the executed historian, sociologist and local historian / 27

History

Shapovalov S.N. Peasant resettlement to the North-Eastern coast of the Black Sea in the 1830s–1850s: Settlement and land use / 46

Bezgin V.B. Peasant children and adolescents in the agrarian protests of 1905–1907 / 63

Mikhalenko N.V. Dacha on Nikolina Gora: The case of A.V. Chayanov / 78

The present time

Shagaida N.I., Ternovsky D.S., Trotsuk I.V. Russia’s ways to ensure food security (control food prices) in 2020–2022, and their impact on consumers / 87

Fedotova G.V., Novikov M.V., Dzhancharov T.M. Genesis of organic farming: World experience and Russia’s perspectives / 113

Arkhipova M.N. Management models of the northern Russian village in the post-perestroika period / 129

Samburova S.A., Alekseev A.I. Post-Soviet regional center: Urbanization or ruralization? / 144

Reviews

Merl S.  Foundations of the ‘agricultural miracle’ in communist Hungary / 185

Nikulin A.M., Nikulina E.S. Man in search of eco-community / 190

Scientific life 

Poleshchuk I.K. Food and security / 196

Theory

Didenko D.V. How demographic shocks affected the production-factor income and the institutional path of the Russian pre-industrial economy / 6

History

Gorskaya N.I. Рub as a public space of the peasant world under the excise trade in Russia (1860s – 1890s) / 21

Posadsky A.V. Deserters from the Red Army during the Civil War: to the History of the Guslitsky Region in 1920 / 36

Ippolitov V.A. Factors affecting the health of the peasants from the “revolutionary turning point” generation in the 1920s (on the example of the Tambov Province) / 46

The present time

Prusikhin O.E., Krutov O.D., Vorobiev M.I., Loktionov K.S., Vepritsky A.A., Alekseev A.I. A multi-scale typology of rural areas under the post-Soviet transformations (on the example of the Tambov Region) / 64

Mindlin Yu.B., Novikov M.V. State support of agro-industrial clusters in Russia: Types and challenges / 104

Koryukhina I.Yu., Boyarskikh E.G. Strawberry business in Baikalsk: Meanings and contradictions / 116

Interview

Pokrovsky N.E., Nikulin A.M. “There is and there will be territorial reformatting of rural spaces” / 140

Reviews

Merl S. Red channels of the Kuban Black-Earth Region / 159

Trotsuk I.V. Agroholding – great and terrible? / 166

Scientific life 

Androsenko S.V. “And there will be a garden, and a tree in that garden” / 182

Nikitin M.E., Pliner A.A. Open Academy / 189

Theory

Savinova T.A. “Everything conceivable can be an issue of science” / 6

Chayanov A.V. Reports “Popular readings’ method”; “Characteristics and general requirements for visualization” (Reports of A.V. Chayanov) / 11

Korandei F.S. Rural wastelands: Places of belonging and “ghosts” cartography of the rural depopulation landscape / 23

History

Slezin A.A. The conflict of generations in the spiritual sphere of rural society in the second half of the 1920s  / 45

Sharapov S.V. Regional authorities and collective-farm peasantry during the Great Patriotic War: Mobilization, care, corruption (based on the data from the Novosibirsk Region) / 67

The present time

Smirnova A.A., Smirnov I.P., Tkachenko A.A. Geographical approach to the classification of local rural areas (on the example of the Torzhok district in the Tver Region) / 85

Imangulov L.R., Kuksin Ya.K. New functions of coastal rural areas in southern Russia: On the example of the Temryuk district in the Krasnodar Region / 104

Interview

Merl S. “I consistently contribute to the assessment of the Soviet economic model” / 131

Reviews

Kurakin A.A. Consumer cooperation in the countryside: Reasons for failure / 164

Scientific life 

Sudhir Kumar Suthar, Akanksha, Monika, Bhawana Chaudhary. Globalization and Future of the Rural-Agrarian in 21st Century India: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities / 171

Davletov D.R., Semovskikh U.S. Rural-urban development through the projects for preserving the historical-cultural heritage of India and Russia / 179

Theory

Mindlin Yu. B., Novikov M. V., Yakovleva O. A. Assessment and ways to increase the rate of return in the Russian medium-sized agricultural enterprises / 6

Kotliarov I. D. Heterogeneity of stakeholders as an obstacle to the development of cooperatives in Russia / 20

History

Gaikin V. A. Korean “collective farms” in Manchukuo (1932-1945) / 33

Kuznetsov I. A. In memory of the scholar: Works of Yu. A. Moshkov and some issues of agrarian historiography / 47

The present time

Baskin L. M., Pokrovsky N. E., Nikolaeva U. G. Sociology on foot and from quadcopter. Rural households and village life in the Near North of Russia (on the example of the Kostroma Region) / 72

Alekseev A. I., Imangulov L. R. Rural areas of Bashkiria: Prevailing types and features of transformation in the post-Soviet period / 109

Reviews

Shirokostup O. A cultural worker’s reflections on Alexander Chayanov’s peasant meta-utopia / 133

Krylatykh E. N., Frolova E. Yu. On the book by V. F. Bashmachnikov with associates and like-minded people Family Farming: Potential and Practice of Development / 148

Poleshchuk I. K. Extractivism of the Far North: Ways to resolve conflicts / 165

Scientific life 

Androsenko S. V. “It’s not hard — it’s soft” / 173

Gonina N. V. Microhistory as a way of self-knowledge / 182

Nikulina E. S. Soviet agricultural heritage: history and modernity /  191

Theory

Chayanov A. V. Organization of agricultural production at the local level (Article of A.V. Chayanov in Russian) / 6

Chayanov A. V. Organization of agricultural production at the local level (Article of A.V. Chayanov in English) / 21

History

Kuznetsov I. A. Russia’s harvest statistics in the first half of the 19th century: The problem of primary data / 35

Fedotova A. A. “Cattle grazing is prohibited after the bison was killed in Białowieża Forest”: Woodland grazing as a traditional form of the peasant forest management in the long 19th century / 55

Andreenkov S. N. Virgin Project of 1954 in Kazakhstan and Siberia: Dynamics of grain production / 89

The present time

Gusakov T. Yu. Agrarian alternative for Yamal: Agriculture and indigenous population / 106

Breslavsky A. S. Urban population of the Jewish Autonomous Region in the historical dynamics of the late 1980s–2010s / 151

Rozanova N. N. Public perception of governors’ reputation in the regional model ‘center–periphery’ / 174

Prusikhin O. E., Zhukovsky E. D., Krutov O. D., Alekseev A. I. Life of Ivan and Hans in the 21st century: Volchikhinsky district of the Altai Region / 190

Interviews

Serova E. V., Nikulin A. M. “Today, in the rural development, the main goal is to change the paradigm”/ 210

Reviews

Babashkin V. V. On the essence of good / 237

Kurakin A. A. Today’s America in the perspective of the US Department of Agriculture / 246

Scientific life 

Poleshchuk I. K. Comparative experience of agricultural development: Russia and Brazil in the time of change / 257

Nikulina E. S. AGROSALON International Specialized Exhibition of Agricultural Machinery / 261

Theory

Merl S. Was Chayanov’s concept of peasant agriculture under the Soviet rule realistic? The emerging of the kulturniki in answer to the Litsom k derevne policy / 6

History

Savinova T. A. 1918 in the life of A. V. Chayanov: Cooperation, writing and anarchism / 38

Timkin Yu. N. “Peasant journey to the Communist Party and back”: Volost peasant organizations of the RCP (Bolsheviks) in 1918–1920 (based on the archival materials of the Vyatka Province) / 47

Filev M. V. How the reforms of Malenkov and Khrushchev changed the life of the collective farm Bolshevik: A microhistoric study / 68

The present time

Shagaida N. I., Trotsuk I. V. Russia’s food security under the crisis of 2020–2021: Objective and subjective dimensions / 93

Fadeeva O. P. Transformation of the rural self-government: A Siberian case / 122

Interviews

Lerman Z., Nikulin A. M. “What surprises me the most is the conviction of so many scientists and politicians in the special importance of large farms” / 158

Reviews

Babashkin V. V. Gradually: “steppe by steppe…”  / 174

In Memoriam

Nikulin A. M. In memoriam of T. E. Kuznetsova / 185

Theory

Makarov N. P. Russian economic thought on agricultural issues (Article of N.P. Makarov) / 6

Sumida S. Rethinking Marx’s theory of the small-scale mode of production in the perspective of the small peasantry theory / 29

History

Sharapov S. V. Agriculture of the Novosibirsk Region under the state agrarian policy on the eve and during the Great Patriotic War / 52

Nakhimovsky A. D. Evidence of war and occupation in the memoirs of Russian peasants: Two Cossack women near Stalingrad / 69

The present time

Petrick M. Post-Soviet transformation of agriculture: A success after all? / 103

Vinogradsky V. G., Vinogradskaya O. Ya. Farming and the rural world: A generational change / 131

Gusakov T. Yu. Gypsies in the post-Soviet Crimea: Migration and integration / 146

Interviews

Khlystun V. N., Nikulin A. M. “I have always considered it extremely important to use science in agricultural practice” / 171

Reviews

Kabytov P. S. Review of the book: Mozokhin O. B. The Case of the Labor Peasant Party / 220

Trotsuk I. V. A new look at the old problems of the Russian hinterland / 228

Scientific life

Ovchintseva L. A. Deurbanization: pro et contra / 239

Lerman Z. Anniversary of V. V. Uzun / 246

Theory

Mikhalenko N. V. Utopian idea in the Russian literature of the 1920s–1930s (The Journey of My Brother Alexei to the Land of Peasant Utopia by A. V. Chayanov in the context of the era) / 6

Visser O. Western agricultural investors in Russia and Ukraine: From fascination with soil to disappointment with climate / 21

History

Posadskiy A. V. The issue of sources in the study of peasant uprisings (the case of the Rudnya settlement, 1918) / 50

Logunova I. V., Urodovskikh V. N. Dynamics of the peasant (private) farms development during the agrarian reform (1991–2001) in the Central Black-Earth Region / 65

The present time

Lebedev P. S., Alekseev A. I. The area of farmland, the population density and their dynamics: A study of relationships (on the example of the Bezhetsk district of the Tver Region) / 87

Imangulov L. R. Typology of settlements in a polyethnic region (on the example of Chuvashia) / 107

Kisliy O. A., Isaeva M. A. The position of labor migrants in agriculture under the pandemic / 125

Chuchkalov A. S., Mishchuk S. N., Grelya N. K. Factors of suburban rural areas turning into a depressed region (on the example of the Birobidzhan district in the Jewish Autonomous Region) / 136

Ershov A. M. European approach to the regulation of mountainous rural areas / 164

Reviews

Nikulina E. S. Venetsianov’s school as pictorial peasant studies / 185

Babashkin V. V. To farm or to write about it? / 191

Scientific life

Krylatykh E. N., Frolova E. Yu. A house in the village vs. the city: A review of presentations at the XXVI Nikonov Readings / 200

Nikulin A. M. Rural development through culture / 215

Poleshchuk I. K. Russian agriculture today: Ecology, healthcare and digitalization / 218