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
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.
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
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