Contents: Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Note on Sources and Methodology -- Newspapers and Statistics -- Interviews and Ethnographic Research Techniques -- Glossary -- The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village -- Introduction -- The Paradox of Ownership -- Privatization Globally and in the Black Earth -- Alternative Explanations -- Explaining Convergence -- Local Politics and Political Theory -- The Evidence -- The Argument -- 1 Things Fall Apart -- Our Heavy Cross -- "Vikings" and Hutsuls -- Fighting for Every Worker -- No Right to Remain Silent -- Our Daily Bread -- Care for People -- 2 Keeping the Collectives -- Each Will Know He Is an Owner -- One Revolution Is Enough -- With Only My Stamp in My Hand -- You Can't Invite Everyone -- The State Farm Kept All the Certificates for Itself -- Do Not Allow Dissolution -- We're All Among Friends Here -- Whoever Doesn't Have a Shovel, Go and Buy One -- The Land Is Quietly Being Taken from Us -- 3 The Social Origins of Private Farmers -- The Chairman Was Against It -- Serious Slips Were Allowed -- Other Than a Shovel and a Pitchfork, I Have Nothing -- Impossible to Obtain Land through Normal Channels -- Familiar Last Names -- Apply Pressure Where Necessary -- They're Inserting Sticks in the Wheels -- Conclusion -- 4 A Return to Regulation -- Pressure Has Remained -- Supplicants and Justice Seekers -- Honest, Solid People -- Their Legs Cut Out from under Them -- Land Must Work for People, Not for Weeds -- Conclusion -- 5 The Politics of Payment -- Only Enough to Feed the Chickens -- A "Wretched" Payment -- No Salary, No Incentive -- Everything Up Through Burial -- However They Arrange It -- Half Starved and Dressed Almost in Rags -- Conclusion -- 6 The Facade -- The Same Old Collective Farm -- We're Fated to Live Together, Inseparably -- Everything Is Being Cleaned Out -- And Where Will I Steal? -- This Was Done Deliberately -- Conclusion -- Dispossession through Privatization -- Lessons from Post-Socialism -- The Significance of the Facade -- Cows and Dispossession -- Index -- Last Page

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