Estimates of the land reform of the 1990s thirty years later

Abstract

This article is a review of the collective monograph by Siberian authors - O. Fadeeva, E. Bystrov, O. Zbanatsky and A. Sheludkov - Native Lands. Essays on the Transformation of Land Relations in Russia (Moscow: Khamovniki Foundation; Common Place; 2021. 208 p.). The authors consider the results of the land reform of the 1990s through the eyes of its direct participants - representatives of various spheres: social, economic, legal, administrative and economic-industrial. The analysis and generalization of the huge empirical data allowed the authors to describe real relations in the system of accounting, distribution and registration of land resources at the municipal level on the example of the Tyumen Region. Such an approach helped the authors to identify the key causes of the slowdown of the land reform, which is primarily the underestimation of the land ownership and of the market mechanisms in its development and functioning.

Keywords

• land reform
• land relations
• landowners
• agroholdings
• unclaimed lands
• land privatization
• digitalization