{"product_id":"bread-and-autocracy-food-politics-and-security-in-putins-russia-paperback","title":"Bread and Autocracy: Food, Politics, and Security in Putin's Russia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanetta Azarieva\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eYitzhak M. Brudny\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEugene Finkel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFood 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBread and Autocracy\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAzarieva, 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, \u003cem\u003eBread and Autocracy\u003c\/em\u003e provides a timely and comprehensive look into Russia's experience in building a nutritionally autarkic dictatorship.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanetta Azarieva\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Research Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the National Nutritional Council of Israel. Her research focuses on government interventions and food security policies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYitzhak M. Brudny \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Political Science and History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been a member of the Editorial Committee of Comparative Politics since 1993. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eReinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991\u003c\/em\u003e, co-editor of two books on post-communist politics, and the author of numerous articles on Russian politics and nationalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEugene Finkel\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Kenneth H. Keller Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He works at the intersection of political science and history, with a focus on how institutions and individuals respond to extreme situations: mass violence, state collapse, and rapid change. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eOrdinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust \u003c\/em\u003eand co-author (with Scott Gehlbach) of \u003cem\u003eReform and Rebellion in Weak States\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.29 x 6.19 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51779408855328,"sku":"9780197684375","price":52.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/78f19db871a1de4535db904124d47090.webp?v=1780516709","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bread-and-autocracy-food-politics-and-security-in-putins-russia-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}