パンと独裁：プーチン政権ロシアにおける食、政治、安全保障 Bread and Autocracy : Food, Politics, and Security in Putin's Russia

著者名：Azarieva, Janetta/Brudny, Yitzhak M./Finkel, Eugene

Oxford University Press（2023/08/18発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197684368
• eISBN：9780197684382

Description

Food has been crucial to the functioning and survival of governments and regimes since the emergence of early states. Yet, only in a few countries is the connection between food and politics as pronounced as in Russia. Since the 1917 Revolution, virtually every significant development in Russian and Soviet history has been either directly driven by or closely associated with the question of food and access to it. In fact, food shortages played a critical role in the collapse of both the Russian Empire and the USSR. Under Putin's watch, Russia moved from heavily relying on grain imports to feed the population to being one of the world's leading food exporters.In Bread and Autocracy, Janetta Azarieva, Yitzhak M. Brudny, and Eugene Finkel focus on this crucial yet widely overlooked transformation, as well as its causes and consequences for Russia's domestic and foreign politics. The authors argue that Russia's food independence agenda is an outcome of a deliberate, decades-long policy to better prepare the country for a confrontation with the West. Moreover, they show that for the Kremlin, nutritional self-sufficiency and domestic food production is a crucial pillar of state security and regime survival.Azarieva, Brudny, and Finkel also make the case that Russia's focus on food independence also sets the country apart from almost all modern autocracies. While many authoritarian regimes have adopted industrial import-substitution policies, in Putin's Russia it is the substitution of food imports with domestically produced crops that is crucial for regime survival. As food reemerges as a key global issue and nations increasingly turn inwards, Bread and Autocracy provides a timely and comprehensive look into Russia's experience in building a nutritionally autarkic dictatorship.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. The Starving Empire: Food and Politics in the USSRChapter 2. Food and Market: The Hungry 1991-1993Chapter 3. Farmers Will Not Feed Russia: The Failure of Yeltsin's Agrarian ReformsChapter 4. The Rise of Grain, 2000-2010Chapter 5. Food, Security and Food SecurityChapter 6. Sanctions and CountersanctionsChapter 7. Top Feeders: The Government and Russia's Agro-CapitalismChapter 8. The COVID-19 Food Crisis, 2020-2021Chapter 9. The War in Ukraine and Russia's Food PoliticsChapter 10. ConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex