Kurakin A.A. The beginning of economic reforms in rural China // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2023. V.8. №4. P. 183-187.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2023-8-4-183-187

Annotation

Book review: Oi J.C. (2023). Rural China Takes off. Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform, Saint Petersburg: Academic Studies Press/Bibliorossika.

About the author

Kurakin Alexander A., PhD (Sociology), Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, Higher School of Economics; Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Myasnitskaya Str., 20, Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation.
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Kurakin A.A. Consumer cooperation in the countryside: Reasons for failure // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2023. V.8. №1. P. 164-170.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2023-8-1-164-170

Annotation

Book review: Antonova M. P., Gataulina E. A., Potapova A. A., Skomorokhov S.N. (2022). Why is agricultural consumer cooperation not developing in Russia? Opinions of participants in the process of agricultural cooperation in questions and answers. Moscow: Publishing House “Delo” RANEPA. — 248 p. ISBN 978-5-85006-415-0

About the author

Kurakin Alexander A., Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidental Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Vernadskogo Prosp., 82, Moscow, 119571, Russia.
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Kurakin A. A. Today’s America in the perspective of the US Department of Agriculture // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2022. V.7. №3. P. 246-256.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2022-7-3-246-256

Annotation

Review of the Special Issue: USA Today (March 15, 2022)

About the author

Kurakin Alexander A., Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidental Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Vernadskogo Prosp., 82, Moscow, 119571, Russia.
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Kurakin A.A. Ways of rural development of Russia and China // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2019. V.4. №3. P. 201-207.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2019-4-3-201-207

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Kurakin Alexander A., Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Higher School of Economics, 101100, Moscow, Myasnitskaya St., 20.
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Kurakin A. China-Russia conference “Rural revitalization” // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2018. V.3. №2. P. 188-197.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2018-3-2-188-197

About the author

Kurakin Alexander A., Senior Researcher at the Center for Agrarian Studies of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Senior Researcher at the Higher School of Economics, 101100, Moscow, Myasnitskaya, 20.
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Round table “Organization-production school in the Russian agrarian-economic thought: History and the present time” // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2018. V.3. №1. P. 74-98.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2018-3-1-74-98

Annotation

The round table “Organization-production school in the Russian agrarian-economic thought: History and the present state” at the Center for Agrarian Studies of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration gathered historians, sociologists, economists, and culturologists for an interdisciplinary discussion of the relevance of the scientific legacy of A.V. Chayanov and his colleagues not only for agrarian science, but also social sciences and humanities on the eve of the anniversaries of the organization-production school representatives. The participants of the round table focused on the genesis and historical prerequisites of the organization-production school, and on the ideas of the Chayanov’s school as influencing the rural development of Russia and the world in the past and present. The participants of the round table were particularly interested in the recently discovered unique archival papers, such as the responses of A.V. Chayanov and N.P. Makarov to criticism of L.N. Litoshenko and A.A. Manuylov considering the theoretical-methodological foundations of the organization-production school’s idea of peasant economy; and the Chayanov’s texts for the German, French and American journals comprehensively describing features of the Russian and Soviet agrarian-economic science development. The intellectual legacy of A.V. Chayanov and his colleagues A.A. Rybnikov, A.N. Chelintsev, B.D. Brutskus, N.P. Makarov, A.N. Minin, and G.A. Studentsky was considered from the perspective of populist, socialist and liberal traditions in the development of Russian and international peasant studies. The participants of the round table also mentioned theories of other remarkable agrarians that can be called predecessors and followers of the organization-production school.

Keywords

Peasant studies, interdisciplinary studies, organization-production school, theory of peasant economy, populism; socialism, liberalism, rural development.

About the authors

Vinogradsky Valery G., DSc (Philosophy), Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. 119571, Moscow, Prosp. Vernadskogo, 82.
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Gordon Alexander V., DSc (History), Head of the East and South-East Asia Branch, Institute of Scientific Information in Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Kuznetsov Igor A., PhD (History), Senior Researcher at the School of Public Policy Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. 119571, Moscow, prospect Vernadskogo, 82.
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Kurakin Alexander A., Senior Researcher at the Center for Agrarian Studies of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Higher School of Economics, 101100, Moscow, Myasnitskaya, 20.
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Nikulin Alexander M., PhD (Economics), Head of the Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; 119571, Moscow, Prosp. Vernadskogo, 82.
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Ovchintseva Lyubov A., PhD (Economics), Senior Researcher, Department of Sustainable Rural Development and Rural Cooperation, Alexander Nikonov All-Russian Institute of Agrarian Issues and Informatics; 105064, Moscow, Bolshoi Kharitonievski Per., 21–1.
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Petrikov Alexander V., DSc (Economics), Academician of RAS, Head of the Alexander Nikonov All-Russian Institute of Agrarian Issues and Informatics; 105064, Moscow, Bolshoi Kharitonievski Per., 21–1. In 2007–2016 — Deputy Minister of agriculture.
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Savinova Tatyana A., PhD (Economics), Head of Organizational-Methodical and Personnel Work Chair, Russian State Archive of Economy; 119992, Moscow, B. Pirogovskaya St., 17.
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Shanin Teodor, Professor, President of the Moscow School of Social and Economics Sciences, chairman of the Advisory Board of the journal “Russian Peasant Studies”. 119571, Moscow, Prosp. Vernadskogo, 82.
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Kurakin А.A. The IV International conference of BICAS: Agro-extractivism inside and outside BRICS // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2017. V.2. №2. P. 166-171.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2017-2-2-166-171

About the author

Kurakin Alexander A., Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics. 101000, Moscow, Myasnitskaya, 20, Russia; Center for Agrarian Studies, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Russia, 119571, Moscow, prosp. Vernadskogo, 82.
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Kurakin А.A. 20 years of the Law “On Agricultural Cooperation” // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2017. V.2. №1. pp. 166-169.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2017-2-1-166-169

About the author

Kurakin Alexander A., Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Higher School of Economics. 101000, Moscow, Myasnitskaya, 20.
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Sobolev A.V., Kurakin A.A., Trotsuk I.V. Methodological approaches to the study of Russian cooperation and “Theory and practice of cooperation” as an academic discipline // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2017. V.2. №1. pp. 31-50.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2017-2-1-31-50

Annotation

The article focuses on the theoretical and methodological problems encountered by the Russian scholars of cooperative organizations. The authors identify four basic methodological approaches to the cooperation phenomenon in the Russian academic tradition: (1) socio-reformist (or socio-ideological), (2) descriptive-monographic, and (3) economic-theoretical, with the first two being dominant. After a short discussion of the prospects and limitations of the theoretical studies of cooperatives as business organizations by Russian scholars, some of the distinguishing features of Russian cooperation thought are mentioned. Considering the features of the Russian cooperative thought, the authors found it useful to name the most prominent Russian researchers of cooperation who can be included in the ICA list of the world cooperative heritage. The authors pay special attention to the myth of the first Russian cooperative and the Decembrists as the first Russian cooperators. Unfortunately, this myth was officially recognized and determines the birthday of the cooperative movement in Russia. The article briefly discusses the contribution to cooperative thought made by Antsiferov, Bilimovich, Tugan-Baranovsky, Chayanov, and Totomianz. Special attention is paid to the scientific contribution of Emelianoff, almost unknown in modern Russia, and the fate of his ideas. Finally, the authors emphasize the particular importance of describing the transformations and the most important achievements of the Russian and foreign cooperative thought in the curriculum of the discipline “Theory and practice of cooperation”.

Keywords

Russian cooperative thought, the history of Russian cooperation, the birth of Russian cooperative movement, economic theory of cooperation, Emelianoff, cooperation as an academic discipline.

About the authors

Sobolev Alexander V., DSc (Economics), Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). 119571, Moscow, prosp. Vernadskogo, 82; professor The Russian University of Cooperation (RUC).
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Trotsuk Irina V., DSc (Sociology), Associate Professor, Sociology Chair, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia; Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. 119571, Moscow, prosp. Vernadskogo,82.
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Kurakin Alexander A., Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Higher School of Economics. 101000, Moscow, Myasnitskaya, 20.
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Kurakin A.A. Are social and economic structures developing in the village? // Russian Peasant Studies. 2016. V.1. №1. P. 180-186

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2016-1-1-180-186

Annotation

Review of book: Fadeeva O. P. Rural Communities and Economic Structures: From Survival to Development / Ed. by Z. I. Kalugina. Novosibirsk: IEIE SB RAS, 2015. 264 p. (Фадеева О. П. Сельские сообщества и хозяйственные уклады: от выживания к развитию / под ред. З. И. Калугиной. Новосибирск: ИЭОПП СО РАН, 2015.— 264 с. ISBN  978-5-89665-289-2.)

About the author

Kurakin Alexander A., Senior Researcher at the Center for Agrarian Studies of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Senior Researcher at the Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology Higher School of Economics. 20, Myasnitskaya Str., Moscow, Russian Federation, 101000.
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