Bread and autocracy : food, politics, and security in Putin's Russia / Janetta Azarieva, Yitzhak M. Brudny, and Eugene Finkel.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197684405.Subject(s): Food security -- Russia (Federation) | Grain trade -- Russia (Federation) | Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government | Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations | Farming and Country Life | Industry & industrial studiesAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197684368DDC classification: 338.190947 Online resources: Oxford Academic Summary: In less than twenty years, Putin's Russia moved from heavily relying on imports to feed the population to being one of the world's leading food exporters. The authors provide a comprehensive analysis of this transformation, as well as its causes and consequences for Russia's domestic politics and foreign policy. They argue that Russia's food independence agenda is an outcome of a deliberate, decades-long policy to better prepare the country for a confrontation with the West. Moreover, they show that for the Kremlin, nutritional self-sufficiency and domestic food production is a crucial pillar of state security and regime survival.Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Also issued in print: 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In less than twenty years, Putin's Russia moved from heavily relying on imports to feed the population to being one of the world's leading food exporters. The authors provide a comprehensive analysis of this transformation, as well as its causes and consequences for Russia's domestic politics and foreign policy. They argue that Russia's food independence agenda is an outcome of a deliberate, decades-long policy to better prepare the country for a confrontation with the West. Moreover, they show that for the Kremlin, nutritional self-sufficiency and domestic food production is a crucial pillar of state security and regime survival.
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