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2025. Vol.10. №2.

“Today we need to significantly change the state agricultural policy to support the development of rural areas”

Jul 28 2025

Gordeev A. V., Nikulin A.M. “Today we need to significantly change the state agricultural policy to support the development of rural areas” // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2025. V.10. №2. P. 180-195.

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Annotation

The first part of the biographical interview with Alexey Vasilyevich Gordeev focuses on the milestones of his life and professional path related to agricultural production and rural development, especially on the transformation of institutions at different levels of agricultural management in the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods; the areas and priorities of Gordeev’s activities as Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation are considered in particular detail. Thus, in the first decades of the 21st century, the priority task was to achieve growth in agricultural production to ensure food independence, food security and stable provision of the population with a variety of food products. The interlocuters discussed ways to reform and develop contemporary agrarian sciences and education in Russia and the period of Russia’s accession to the WTO as associated with import-export relations of Russia with foreign countries.

Keywords

Rural Russia, Soviet economy, agrarian reforms, agribusiness, rural development, minister, WTO.

About the authors

Alexey V. Gordeev, DSc (Economics), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. Okhotny Ryad St., 1, Moscow, 103265.
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Alexander M. Nikulin, PhD (Economics), Head of the Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Vernadskogo Prosp., 82, Moscow, 119571.
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2019. Vol.4. №2.

“Culture is a factor of labor productivity”

Aug 07 2019

Kiselev S.V., Nikulin A.M. “Culture is a factor of labor productivity” // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2019. V.4. №2. P. 160-176.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2019-4-2-160-176

Annotation

In his interview to the Russian Peasant Studies, Sergei Kiselev, the Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, refers to the facts of his biography to provide an extensive overview of the evolution of some important approaches in the Russian and foreign agrarian economic science and politics in the late 20th—early 21st centuries. The interview focuses on the agrarian and economic policy of the perestroika, the creation of the Agrarian Institute headed by the Academician A.A. Nikonov, the interaction of the state regulation of agriculture with emerging market-economy institutions and relations. One of the topics of the interview is the long-term accession of Russia to the WTO as connected with negotiations on various areas of the economy and especially on agriculture, in which Kiselev took part. The interview also describes the studies of foreign agrarian economies, especially of the USA, which were conducted by meetings of Kiselev with American farmers, scientists and businessmen. When describing the current development of the Russian agriculture Kiselev stresses that Russia has reached a plateau of economic indicators, and to increase them the country needs a substantial increase in agricultural labor productivity, which depends not only on the successes of the national economy as a whole, but also on the quality of agricultural science and education, and the most important factor of their successful improvement is culture in the most extensive and deep meaning of the word.

Keywords

agrarian economy, agrarian policy, agricultural education, perestroika, WTO, farming, labor productivity, culture

About the authors

Sergei V. Kiselev, DSc (Economics), Professor, Head of the Department of Agroeconomics, Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University. 119992, Moscow, Leninsky Gory, New Building, Faculty of Economics, Room 422.
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Alexander M. Nikulin, PhD (Economics), Head of the Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. 119571, Moscow, Vernadskogo Prosp, 82.
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Russian Peasant Studies

Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal in the field of theoretical and empirical peasant studies, rural sociology, economics and social geography. The journal publishes original works on the issues of socio-economic development of agricultural regions of Russia and the world, the history of the peasantry, including its formation and evolution, particularly from philosophical and cultural studies viewpoints. The journal aims at exploring the paths of Russian and international rural development and supporting cooperation of agrarian researchers representing different scientific disciplines. Read more>

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