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Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food

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Product Description Like all facets of daily life, the food that Russian farms grew and citizens ate―or, in some years, didn't eat―underwent radical shifts in the century between the Bolshevik Revolution and Putin's presidency. The modernization of agriculture during this time is usually understood in terms of advances in farming methods. Susanne A. Wengle's important interdisciplinary history of Russia's agriculture and food systems documents far-reaching changes on farms, along with their effects on ordinary people and for successive political regimes. Wengle argues that we need to focus on the political actors who employed and favored particular agrotechnologies to provide "the good life" for citizens. Each of the large-scale rural reforms was rooted as much in political ambitions as in the need to increase crop and meat yields. Attempts to create the conditions of abundance relied heavily on top-down programs that nearly always had unexpected, and occasionally devastating, outcomes. Bringing together a narrative on governance, production, consumption, nature, and the ensuing vulnerabilities of the agri-food system, Wengle reveals the intended and unintended consequences of Russian agricultural policies since 1917. Ultimately, Black Earth, White Bread is a call for attention to states' reliance on specific technologies to illuminate transformations in food systems everywhere. Review "A comprehensive and very refreshing technopolitical history of Russia's agrifood system. Wengle's nuanced account of Russia's remarkable rise from a Soviet-era food importer to a rising global powerhouse has resulted in a timely book--a tour de force that is nonetheless narrated in an extremely concise and lively way."--Oane Visser, International Institute for Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam "This eminently readable book, based on fascinating research, serves as an urgent reminder that techno-scientific projects in agriculture have deep histories and variegated geographies, and thus are hardly an invention of Silicon Valley start-up culture."--Julie Guthman, University of California, Santa Cruz "Who eats what? Susanne A. Wengle's important and gripping book recasts a century of Russian history as a series of revolutionary transformations of the country's food system. Answers to problems of food production and consumption are central pillars of political power and legitimacy for communist and post-communist regimes alike."--Henry Thomson, Arizona State University About the Author Susanne A. Wengle is the Nancy R. Dreux associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Post-Soviet Power: State-Led Development and Russia's Marketization.

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Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0299335402
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Business & Economic History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 March 2022
Listed Since: 22 June 2021

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