Russian countryside: Stages of change, adaption to reforms and new global challenges

Abstract

This paper deals with the generalization of experience of the transformation of Russian countryside, with regard to interrelationship between the economic and social aspects of transformation, as well as with the analysis of the current situation in the development of rural areas. This is due to a specific effect of post-socialist heritage and global challenges of our time. Our research is based on the results of the sociological surveys of change in strategies of social adaptation of rural population in Russia. It was done by the authors with uniform research techniques in Siberia, Volga region, Altai from 1993 to 2014.

Keywords

• differentiation
• diversification
• economic structures
• globalization
• polarization
• rural development
• rural society
• social adaptation