{"product_id":"9780299335403-black-earth-white-bread","title":"Black Earth, White Bread","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food\u003cbr\u003ePresents an important interdisciplinary history of Russia’s agriculture and food systems that documents far-reaching changes on farms, along with their effects on ordinary people and for successive political regimes.\u003cbr\u003eLike all facets of daily life, the food that Russian farms grew and citizens ate—or, in some years, didn't eat—underwent radical shifts in the century between the Bolshevik Revolution and Putin's presidency. The modernization of agriculture during this time is usually understood in terms of advances in farming methods. Susanne A. Wengle's important interdisciplinary history of Russia's agriculture and food systems documents far-reaching changes on farms, along with their effects on ordinary people and for successive political regimes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wengle argues that we need to focus on the political actors who employed and favored particular agrotechnologies to provide \"the good life\" for citizens. Each of the large-scale rural reforms was rooted as much in political ambitions as in the need to increase crop and meat yields. Attempts to create the conditions of abundance relied heavily on top-down programs that nearly always had unexpected, and occasionally devastating, outcomes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bringing together a narrative on governance, production, consumption, nature, and the ensuing vulnerabilities of the agri-food system, Wengle reveals the intended and unintended consequences of Russian agricultural policies since 1917. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eBlack Earth, White Bread\u003c\/i\u003e is a call for attention to states' reliance on specific technologies to illuminate transformations in food systems everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56094193516918,"sku":"9780299335403","price":63.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38189508_ed8aa17d-d4ee-4ad4-bc84-7165d649cad7.jpg?v=1763787281","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780299335403-black-earth-white-bread","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}