PEASANT FARMING IN RUSSIA

Russia starred its decollectivisation effort in earnest after the abor tive 1991 coup attempt. A legislative foundation has been laid and ove r one-quarter million peasant farms have been created, many through th e act of exiting a collective by a farm worker faking his or her land and asset shares along. Yet significant obstacles remain in the path o f both continued peasant farm creation and the viability of those alre ady functioning.