TY - BOOK ID - 122519808 TI - Bread and autocracy : food, politics, and security in Putin's Russia AU - Azarieva, Janetta AU - Brudny, Yitzhak M. AU - Finkel, Eugene PY - 2023 SN - 0197684408 0197684386 PB - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political science. KW - Food security KW - Grain trade KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Politics and government. KW - Foreign relations. KW - Farming and Country Life. KW - Industry & industrial studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:122519808 AB - In less than twenty years, Putin's Russia moved from heavily relying on imports to feed the population to being one of the world's leading food exporters. The authors provide a comprehensive analysis of this transformation, as well as its causes and consequences for Russia's domestic politics and foreign policy. They argue that Russia's food independence agenda is an outcome of a deliberate, decades-long policy to better prepare the country for a confrontation with the West. Moreover, they show that for the Kremlin, nutritional self-sufficiency and domestic food production is a crucial pillar of state security and regime survival. ER -