Gray, Patty A. (2005) Decollectivization in Rural Russia: A Perspective from the Far North. In: Property Relations: The Halle Focus Group 2000-2005. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

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The project I carried out as part of the Siberia project group at Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology was concerned with how the decollectivization of state farms in Russia and attendant changes in property relations were affecting the lived experience of rural residents. I conducted the bulk of my field research in reindeer-herding villages of Chukotka, a region in the Russian Far North. I also made an exploratory comparative field trip in 2001 to a farming village in the Republic of Mari El, in the Volga region. Scholars typically treat the Russian Far North and the Volga region as entirely separate frames of reference, but I wanted to demonstrate the similarities the two regions shared on the basis of their having experienced processes of collectivization and decollectivization that were remarkably uniform throughout Russia.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Published as part of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology "Property Relations: the Halle Focus Group 2000- 2005" Report
Keywords:	Decollectivization; Land; Reindeer herding; Chukotka; Volga; Indigenous inhabitants; sovkhozy; Chukchis; Chuvans; Evens; Republic of Marii El.
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Anthropology
Item ID:	2030
Depositing User:	Dr. Patty A. Gray
Date Deposited:	05 Jul 2010 18:06
Publisher:	Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Refereed:	No
URI:	Organisation
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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