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Author:   Alexander Chayanov
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
ISBN:  

9781850431893

ISBN 10:   1850431892
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   31 December 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword to the Second World Series by Teodor Shanin. Introduction by Viktor Danilov. Author's Comment. 1.The Processes and the Concept of Vertical Concentration in the Rural Economy: Peasant Co-operation as an Alternative. 2. The Theory of Differential Optima and Co-operatives in the Peasant Economy. 3. Credit in the Peasant Economy. 4. Co-operative Credit Societies. 5. The Peasant Family's Money Economy and its Organization on Co-operative Principles. 6. The Basic Principles of the Co-operative Organisation of Commodity Circulation. 7. The Organisation of Co-operative Marketing and Reprocessing Enterprises. 8 Machinery Users' Associations. 9. Dairy Farming Reprocessing and Cattle-rearing Co-operatives. 10. Peasant Co-operation for the Purpose of Cattle-rearing. 11. Co-operative Insurance. 12. Associations Concerned with Land. 13. Collective Farms or 'Total Agricultural Co-operation'. 14. The Basic Principles of Organisation of Agricultural Co-operatives.

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Alexander Chavanov (1888-1937) was the major theorist of peasant studies in a period when Russia! USSR led the field, and directed the prestigious Institute of Rural Studies. The Theori’ of Peasant Eeononzv, the hrst of his works translated into English, has become a classic text in development studies. In the late 1920s, Chavanov began to he regarded as an enemy of the state; he was arrested in 1931 and executed in 1937. In 1987 he was officially rehabilitated and the importance of his ideas acknowledged.

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