Commodity Exchanges and the Privatization of the Agricultural Sector in the Commonwealth of Independent States—Needed Steps in Creating a Market Economy

Authors

Alexander Belozertsev
Jerry W. Markham

Abstract

Pre-revolutionary commodities exchanges in Russia and their extinguishment by the Bolsheviks are examined, and the role thereafter by Soviet central planners in the distribution, import and export of agricultural commodities is described. It is argued that the privatization process in the CIS must include incentives for the development of an exchange system for agricultural goods.

Citation

Alexander Belozertsev & Jerry W. Markham, Commodity Exchanges and the Privatization of the Agricultural Sector in the Commonwealth of Independent States—Needed Steps in Creating a Market Economy, 55 Law and Contemporary Problems 119-155 (Fall 1992)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol55/iss4/6