Post-Soviet farmers’ international in the agriculture of the North-West Region

Постсоветский фермерский интернационал в сельском хозяйстве Северо-Западного региона

Bozhkov, Oleg (Божков, Олег) () and Trotsuk, Irina (Троцук, Ирина) ()
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Bozhkov, Oleg (Божков, Олег): Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Trotsuk, Irina (Троцук, Ирина): Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Russian Peasant Studies, 2020, vol. 5, 162-179

Abstract: The article presents the life trajectories of representatives of those national groups that became active rural entrepreneurs in the North-West Region of Russia at different times. Unfortunately, we have not yet considered the national-ethnic aspect of rural entrepreneurship in our research projects [see, e.g.: Bozhkov, 2019; Bozhkov, Ignatova, 2015; 2017; Bozhkov, Trotsuk, 2018; Ignatova, 2016]. The article focuses on various problems that the migrants from different former republics of the Soviet Union face in the zones of risky Russian agriculture. The empirical basis of the article is the data (transcripts of interviews and field observations) of sociological expeditions supported by the Russian Foundation for Humanities and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in 2005–2008 and 2018–2019. The four ‘cases’ confirm the hypothesis that, regardless of the migration-generational trajectory and activities in the Russian countryside, all entrepreneurs face the same problems (labor shortage, abandoned production facilities and dilapidated social infrastructure, expensive loans and harsh tax and administrative pressure ‘from above’—despite the declarative-nominal support of the state, the general atmosphere of social distrust, the lack of traditions and skills of real cooperation, and so on). There is some specificity of such problems; however, it is determined not by the national-ethnic factor, but rather by the reaction of the traditional rural community to ‘outsiders’ who bring their own rules and disrupt the routine of local life (with its unemployment, impoverishment, desolation and alcoholism).

Keywords: migration; nationality; rural entrepreneurs; northern Non-Black-Earth Region; local communities; cooperation; government support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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