Transformation of Russia's Agrarian Sector: Problems of Efficiency and Adaptation of Population

Abstract

The paper considers main directions and results of agrarian changes in present Russia: structural and social changes of the agrarian sector, development trends in the chief segments of the agricultural economy: collective, private and part-time (household). In it are analyzed the causes of the failures of the agrarian reform in Russia: disregard for historical experience and national traditions of agricultural production, discrepancy between the vector reforms and the prevailing system of values of the rural population, high degree of politicisation of the agrarian reform, mistimed refusal from state regulation, «Soviet» technology in the implementation of market reforms, whose characteristic features are ubiquity, rashness and mere formality.