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LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 1. Food gardening and other industries’ contribution to GDP in 2004, billions of rubles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Share of agricultural enterprises, households and independent farmers in Russia’s agricultural output (by value), 1992–2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. A typical 600 m 2 dacha plot as an agroforestry system: mixed plantings of vegetables, shrubs and trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. An intensive potato/rye alley cropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. A multi-functional raspberry hedge bordering vegetable beds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. The evolution of a dacha garden-plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. Subsistence growing’s in-kind share in the gross income of Russian households, 1998–2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. “A fertilizer-saving debate.” A satyrical Soviet poster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9. Boris Pasternak digging a potato patch at his dacha in Peredelkino, near Moscow, in the summer of 1958 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10. Old Russian distaffs decorated with pagan symbols of the Sun, Earth and Water — three elements central to fertility and life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11. Contemporary woodcarvings continue to reproduce millennia-old design of the “wheel of Rod” as a symbol of the never-ending natural cycle of birth, death and rebirth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. The facade of the St. Dmitrii Church (12th century) in the city of Vladimir, covered in pagan symbols of fertility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 14 18 19 20 21 35 45 59 62 76 87 xiii
13. Peasant-like households in the city of Vladimir’s downtown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14. A deserted village in the 17th century, painting by academician K.V. Lebedev . . . 15. A peasant being whipped, while red-hot iron forceps are being prepared for subsequent torture (drawing by P.V. Kurdiumov) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16. A landlord’s harem made up of young peasant women (drawing by Hamplen) . . . 17. “October 25 [date of the Bolshevik revolution].” A Soviet propaganda poster from the early 1920s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18. “Raise vegetables!” A Soviet propaganda poster from the early 1930s . . . . . . . . . 19. Vladimir oblast (red) on the map of Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20. Topographic map of the Vladimir oblast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21. Map of the administrative divisions (raions) of the Vladimir oblast . . . . . . . . . . . 22. The distribution of the households according to size: participants of this survey and the 2002 Census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23. Gardening participation rates per income group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24. Distribution of landholding sizes and amounts of land put to agricultural uses . . . 25. Proportion of households’ land used for agriculture in 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26. The average size of landholdings for households in different income groups . . . . 27. Legal forms of garden-plots, percent of plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28. Form of plot ownership, percent of households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29. Distance to the garden-plot, percent of households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30. Shares of family budget devoted to food purchases by gardening and nongardening households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31. Share of self-provisioning in food consumption for urban and rural gardening households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32. Share of self-provisioning in food consumption for lowest- and highest-income gardening households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33. Number of uses of garden-plots for each gardening household . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 89 90 90 96 104 122 123 123 155 161 162 162 164 166 167 168 182 184 184 194 xiv
Page 1 and 2: THE SOCIOECONOMIC AND CULTURAL SIGN
Page 3 and 4: To Anastasia and to millions of Rus
Page 5 and 6: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS When I started res
Page 7 and 8: TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Page 9 and 10: CHAPTER 2. HOUSEHOLD GARDENING IN T
Page 11 and 12: Agri-cultural values . . . . . . .
Page 13 and 14: 14. Views of Marxists and Chaianov
Page 15: 52. Distribution of responses to cu
Page 19 and 20: THE SOCIOECONOMIC AND CULTURAL SIGN
Page 21 and 22: Dacha. The term dacha, dating back
Page 23 and 24: farming in reference to gardening,
Page 25 and 26: In this dissertation, I use the Lib
Page 27 and 28: Recently, it has been increasingly
Page 29 and 30: in the region in 2006 (with a repre
Page 31 and 32: largely due to the proliferation of
Page 33 and 34: 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 67% 33% 48%
Page 35 and 36: Table 2. Land usage by different gr
Page 37 and 38: garden-plots is certainly intention
Page 39 and 40: Finally, the gardening practices ar
Page 41 and 42: That household gardening is a highl
Page 43 and 44: Table 6: Distribution of land under
Page 45 and 46: Table 7. Distribution of land under
Page 47 and 48: Table 8. Number of households ownin
Page 49 and 50: Table 10. Employers’ requests for
Page 51 and 52: Table 11 shows that of the 80,342 g
Page 53 and 54: household subsistence comes first,
Page 55 and 56: Household production plays an impor
Page 57 and 58: the country’s agricultural output
Page 59 and 60: • Subsidy-free: This mode of agri
Page 61 and 62: was not only “beautiful,” but i
Page 63 and 64: for several decades, Kurdiumov (200
Page 65 and 66: Organic husbandry minimizes agroche
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have recently been vindicated by sc
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oth Russia and the U.S. Indeed, as
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another important factor shaping th
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Community development In the U.S.,
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THE CULTURAL DIMENSION Culture and
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First, a study of agriculture witho
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All of these questions suggest that
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Figure 10. Old Russian distaffs dec
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A related danger arises when differ
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to the same extent as the human bod
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the sacredness of the human-earth c
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My interest here is not so much in
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introduction of a new ideology that
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from cereal crops and beans, vegeta
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lit. “the bearing of fruit”), r
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As the society was composed of fami
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As we see, subsistence growing stoo
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While the princes themselves could
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Since pagan lifestyle and beliefs p
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and “sinful” for Christians —
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adopted from the pagan religion and
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Figure 15. A peasant being whipped,
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However, the emancipation of serfs
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• nationalization of land ownersh
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Figure 17. “October 25 [date of t
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But, in addition to agriculture bei
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Peasant economy is the most perfect
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the way of the builders of a new so
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Figure 18. “Raise vegetables!”
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in areas around major cities and in
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But times have changed: the new lea
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uilding project explained that he h
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CHAPTER 2 HOUSEHOLD GARDENING IN TH
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• What cultural values do gardene
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cultivate? How did the volume of pr
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Value and limitations of the region
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METHODOLOGY Research Design This is
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190 km east of Moscow. Fifteen thou
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Economy. In 2005, the Gross Regiona
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Another group that is excluded from
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period lies outside both the tradit
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• Stage 4 — systematic sampling
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[Table 16 continued.] (1) (2) (3) (
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average size of households evolve s
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Instrumentation Description of inst
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values (including the notion that r
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in everyday life. Also, Stern et al
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Notes to Table 17: 1) Items 2 and 1
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have experience in conducting rural
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All interviewers without exception
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Once a schedule was completed (incl
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News from the field Accustomed to c
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Data entry After each schedule pass
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GENERAL SURVEY RESULTS Demographics
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is a household, not an individual).
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The reasons for not participating i
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A number of studies (notably Clarke
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Percent of households 45% 40% 35% 3
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Average garden size, ha 0.18 0.16 0
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Gardeners use a variety of legal fo
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Percent of households 35% 30% 25% 2
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It should be noted that the amount
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Note that even the machinery used o
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e regarded as rough approximations
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less important than many other expe
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Sharing with relatives or friends c
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ee products offer the largest avera
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The income sellers derived from the
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Number of households, percent 50% 4
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Table 41. Number of gardening house
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in Chapter 1 on the basis of nation
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The next common practice is crop ro
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Seed sources Gardeners play an impo
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Table 48. Uses of garden-plots by h
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Table 49. Households’ rankings of
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Agri-cultural values As we have see
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• age of respondent, • gender o
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Finally, there is a small differenc
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[Table 52 continued.] [14] Agricult
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The five items with the lowest scor
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very imperfect measures of the actu
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Information and skills From 2001 on
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Interaction with others and persona
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major problem for many urbanites du
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CHAPTER 3 THE INVISIBLE GARDENS The
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“STRETCH YOUR BRAINS” An early
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However, we have a millennial recor
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However, the idea that micro-scale
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This observation has important impl
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of Chaianov the vast majority of Ru
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(including fruits and berries), whi
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claims over what was once people’
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In addition, there is a growing con
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that could result in a wholesale tr
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e known by the name of Anastasia (w
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In the vision of Megré and the new
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Figure 41. A maintenance-free apple
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Thus, Vasilii Dokuchaev, after deca
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Figure 42. “Dig for victory now!
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Figure 43. A community garden near
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industry, master gardener programs,
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Chaianov, A.V. 1991. Osnovnye idei
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Jones, E. 2002. Social responsibili
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O’Brien, D.J., Wegren, S.K., and
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Sharashkin, L., Gold, M., and Barha
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Yaroshenko, S. 1998. Domashnie khoz
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6. HOW MANY GARDEN-PLOTS DO YOU OWN
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4. landscaping 5. travel to the plo
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3 - stay about the same 4 - decreas
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12 poultry 97 other___________ 36.
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Maintaining our connection to the e
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
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61. WHERE HAVE YOU SPENT MOST OF YO
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VITA Leonid Sharashkin was born on
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