ASEEES Award for Carol Leonard
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| Agrarian Reform in Russia: The Road from Serfdom (2011, Cambridge University Press) |
Carol Leonard, Head of the HSE Department for Spatial Development and Regional Studies, has received the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) award.
The ASEEES was founded in 1938 and is a leading private organization in the world dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about the former Soviet Union (including Eurasia) and Eastern and Central Europe. The Association includes about 3500 individual members and subscribers and over 50 institutional members all over the world and has published the Slavic Review academic journal for several dozens of years.
Carol Leonard has received one of the ASEEES awards - Ed A. Hewett Book Prize for an outstanding publication in political economy – for her monograph ‘Agrarian Reform in Russia: The Road from Serfdom’ (2011, Cambridge University Press). The book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Stolypin reforms, the NEP, the Collectivization, Khrushchev reforms, and finally farm enterprise privatization in the early 1990s. It provides a new database for measuring agricultural productivity and studies the policies aimed at reorganizing rural production and their effectiveness in transforming institutions.
Congratulations!
Carol Scott Leonard
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