Search for dissertations about: "sovkhoz"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word sovkhoz.

2. 1. Continuity or not? : Family farming and agricultural transformation in 20th century Estonia

   Author : Hans Jörgensen; Olle Krantz; Sven Nordlund; Anu Mai Kõll; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; Estonia; agricultural transformation; family farms; private plots; co-operation; kolkhoz; sovkhoz; export markets; land reform; restitution; decollectivisation; subsistence farms; comparisons; Ekonomisk historia; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis explores the agrarian development in 20th Estonia and the role of family farming during three major agricultural transformations. It consists of four papers and an introductory chapter for which the common departure are the situation appearing in the Estonian farming landscape after the regained independence in 1991. READ MORE

4. 2. Just Labor : Labor Ethic in a Post-Soviet Reindeer Herding Community

   Author : Vladislava Vladimirova; Hugh Beach; Piers Vitebsky; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Cultural anthropology; labor ethic; reindeer herding; ethnic obshchina; postsocialism; sovkhoism; Kola Peninsula; Russian Sami; Kulturantropologi; kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This book explores the main ethical norms that influence labor in reindeer herding in the European part of the Russian North (Murmansk Region). It is based on the assumption that Soviet ideological discourse of labor has been reinterpreted in practice, and has shaped specific patterns of work that may seem contradictory to their official source. READ MORE