I have always considered it extremely important to use science in agricultural practice

Я всегда считал крайне важным вовлечение науки в аграрную практику

Khlystun, Viktor (Хлыстун, Виктор) () and Nikulin, Alexander (Никулин, Александр) ()
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Khlystun, Viktor (Хлыстун, Виктор): State University of Land Use Planning
Nikulin, Alexander (Никулин, Александр): Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Russian Peasant Studies, 2022, vol. 7, 171-219

Abstract: The interview presents the history of the rural development and agrarian reforms in Russia in the 20th — 21st centuries as based on the facts from the biography of the Academician V.N. Khlystun. The article focuses on the features of educational and scientific institutions associated with the countryside in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia, in particular on the history and present state of the Academician’s alma mater — the State University of Land Use Planning. One of the main issues in the interview is the reforms of the Russian agrarian system, which are considered primarily on the basis of Khlystun’s rich management experience in the 1990s — as the Chairman of the RSFSR State Committee on Land Reform, Russian Minister of Agriculture, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government, and as a key manager of large financial organizations and analytical structures in the agrarian-industrial complex. In his memoirs, Khlystun describes and analyzes successes and failures of various legislative, economic and political measures of agrarian reforms at the federal and regional levels, and makes some personal assessments of the behavior and competencies of some representatives of the state, political and scientific elites of Russia. He repeatedly emphasizes that rural life is a special social sphere that requires complex and balanced measures for its transformations, i.e., considering various agrarian characteristics of such a vast country as Russia. Khlystun argues that the key to successful rural reforms is a combination of leaders’ broad professional horizons with the ability to give priority to the common national good instead of private interests.

Keywords: Russia; Kazakhstan; State University of Land Use Planning; perestroika; Ministry of Agriculture; land and agrarian reforms; Russian Government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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