Eastern European Countryside, t. 7

Articles and Studies

Christian Giordano, Dobrinka Kostova- The Unexpected Effects of the Land Reform in Post-socialist Bulgaria
Igor V. Volguine - Resentment to Capitalism: the Transformation of the Peasant Tradition in Russia
Andrzej Rosner - The Rural Labour Market in Poland Today and Tomorrow

Research Reports and Materials

Junior Davis - Sustainable Non-Farm Rural Livelihood Diversification in Romania during Transition
Veska Kozhukharova - The Necessity for Local Initiative in the Sustainable Development of the Bulgarian Village
Stanka Dobreva - The Farm Production Cooperative as a Support for the Rural Household in Bulgaria
Galina Koleva - How to be an Entrepreneur in a Village
Srecko Brkić, Durdica Zutinić - Education of Rural Youth as the Factor of Exodus or Professionalization of Farming

Reviews and Information

Nigel Swain - Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: Building Communities, Protecting Resources, Fostering Human Development (Xth World Congress of Rural Sociology, Rio de Janeiro, 30 July to 5 August, 2000)
Władysław Misiak - Macro-economic and Regional Conditions of the Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas in Romania (Maria Vince, Politici agricole in lume. Teorii si realitati. Maria Vince, Dezvoltare regional si rurala. Idei si practici)
Monika Kwiecińska-Zdrenka - The Polish and Hungarian Countryside a Decade after the System Transformation (Rural Societies under Communism and beyond. Hungarian and Polish Perspectives. Paweł Starosta, Imre Kovach, Krzysztof Gorlach, eds.)
Elwira Piszczek - Rural Women in East German Society (Bettina van Hoven-Iganski, Made in the GDR. The changing Geographies of Women in the Post-socialist Rural Society in Mecklenburg - Westpomerania)
Iwona Leśniewicz - Rural Households in Russia (Household Capital and the Agrarian Problem in Russia, ed. by D. L. D. Dershem, J. O'Brien, V. V. Patsiorkovski).
Frances Pine -A Welcome Addition to "Transition" Literature (The Revitalization of Rural Areas in Europe, Vol. IV. Rural and Agricultural Transformation in Central Europe, ed. A. Kaleta, N. Swain, B. Weber, G. Zabłocki)

Classics of Central European Rural Sociology

Włodzimierz Wincławski - Valtasar Bogisić - a precursor of rural sociology in the Balkan countries

Obituary

Krystyna Szafraniec - Dyzma Gałaj (1915-2000)