Russia's food revolution : the transformation of the food system / Stephen K. Wegren with Alexander Nikulin and Irina Trotsuk.

This book analyzes the food revolution that has occurred in Russia since the late 1980s, documenting the transformation in systems of production, supply, distribution, and consumption. It examines the dominant actors in the food system; explores how the state regulates food; considers changes in pat...

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Main Authors: Wegren, Stephen K., 1956- (Author), Nikulin, Alexander (Author), Trot︠s︡uk, I. V. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Thinking about food revolutions
  • Why food is important
  • Food and the contemporary era
  • Political importance of food in Russia
  • What is a food revolution?
  • Food revolution as an analytical concept
  • Theorizing about food revolutions
  • The Soviet famine of 1921-1922
  • The famine in Ukraine and southern Russia during 1932-1934
  • The famine of 1946-1947
  • Food revolution and the state
  • The impact of food revolutions
  • Societal and political impact.
  • Economic impact
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2: Russia's food supply revolution
  • Why a food supply revolution after 2000?
  • Approaches to food supply
  • Russia's food supply revolution of the 1990s
  • Domestic food production in the 1990s
  • Food imports in the 1990s
  • Consequences and the rise of protectionism
  • Contributors to food supply in the 1990s
  • Russia's contemporary food supply revolution
  • Domestic food production after 2000
  • Food imports after 2000
  • Contributors to food supply after 2000
  • Evidence of smallholders in decline.
  • Why are Russia's smallholders in decline?
  • Prospects for Russia's smallholders
  • Private farms
  • Agroholdings
  • Origins
  • The state and agroholdings
  • Agroholdings and food production
  • The question of agroholdings' sustainability
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3: Russia's food distribution revolution
  • An overview of Soviet food distribution
  • Post-Soviet food distribution in the 1990s
  • The wholesale food procurement system
  • Retail food options
  • The state and food distribution after 2000
  • The state, food safety, and distribution
  • The state and illegal food.
  • The food distribution revolution
  • Expansion of consumer retail choices after 2000
  • Evolution of American food retail shopping
  • Supermarkets in Russia
  • Where consumers obtain food
  • Eating outside the home
  • Measuring Russia's revolution in public catering
  • Why fast food matters
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4: Russia's food consumption revolution
  • What is a food consumption revolution and why it matters
  • Origins of food consumption revolutions
  • The Russian case
  • Food consumption and food security
  • Food consumption in the Soviet era
  • Positive aspects
  • Negative aspects.
  • Food consumption in the 1990s
  • Russia's contemporary food consumption revolution
  • Food consumption after 2000
  • Affordability of food
  • Food and culture
  • Culture and consumption in Soviet Russia
  • Culture and consumption in post-Soviet Russia
  • The rise of gastrotourism
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5: Implications of Russia's food revolutions
  • Impact on the food system
  • Impact on the government and state
  • Impact on food producers
  • Impact on consumers
  • Impact on society
  • Impact on food culture
  • Impact on foreign relations
  • Food security and foreign relations
  • Food and foreign policy.