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Rural Inequality in the Republic of Karelia: Considering Nonfarm Communities in Russian Rural Studies

Welker, Lauren ELizabeth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1293723070

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2011, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Slavic and East European Studies.
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and ensuing market reforms under President Boris Yeltsin increased inequality and economic stress on Russia’s rural residents. The aftermath of agrarian privatization and the chaotic 1990s has been studied by researchers from various disciplines, but little has been done to explain regional variations in quality of life, employment opportunities, and how life in rural nonfarm economies differs from regions where commercial farming is the predominant economic activity. Russia’s northwestern Republic of Karelia has an economy based primarily on forestry and a diverse rural landscape and population, only a small portion of which is engaged in commercial farming. National policies such as market reforms and President Vladimir Putin’s 2006 project to grow the agroindustrial sector have done little to integrate rural nonfarm economies and communities into larger regional and national economies. Members of these communities continue to lead subsistence-based lives and face increasing marginalization as sources of employment and services in their villages close. If scholars and policymakers fail to provide services and maintain infrastructure to peripheral areas, local residents will face continued poverty, while their desire to work and participate in regional economies will be unrealized.
Nicholas Breyfogle (Advisor)
Yana Hashamova (Committee Member)
Linda Lobao (Committee Member)
Cathy Rakowski (Committee Member)
85 p.
Slavic Studies; Sociology
rural poverty; Russia

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  • Welker, L. E. (2011). Rural Inequality in the Republic of Karelia: Considering Nonfarm Communities in Russian Rural Studies [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1293723070

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Welker, Lauren. Rural Inequality in the Republic of Karelia: Considering Nonfarm Communities in Russian Rural Studies. 2011. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1293723070.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Welker, Lauren. "Rural Inequality in the Republic of Karelia: Considering Nonfarm Communities in Russian Rural Studies." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1293723070

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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