1 Introduction and Overview -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 Where Does Russia Stand? -- 2.1 A Comparison of Agrarian Transition in Russia, China, and Eastern Europe -- 2.2 Russia's Position within the CIS: A Cross-country Comparison -- 2.3 Russia's Agro-food Sector: State of the Art -- 3 Policy and Macroeconomics -- 3.1 Sectoral Agricultural Policies and Estimates of PSEs for Russia in the Transition Period -- 3.2 Inflation and Exchange Rate Policies -- 3.3 The Role of the Agro-food Sector in the Macroeconomy: General Equilibrium Effects -- 4 Spatial Market Integration -- 4.1 Economic Consequences of Russia's Internal Border -- 4.2 Regional (Dis-)Integration of Russia's Agro-food Markets -- 4.3 The Effects of Disintegration: Regional Grain Production and Marketing in Russia 1992-1995 -- 5 Trade -- 5.1 Russia's Agro-food Trade and Trade Agreements -- 5.2 Russia's Bilateral Agricultural Trade: First Results of a Partial Equilibrium Analysis -- 6 Subsistence Production and Consumption of Food -- 6.1 Poverty, Subsistence Production, and Consumption of Food in Russia: Policy Implications -- 6.2 The Role of Household Plots in Rural Areas -- 7 Evolving Food Marketing Chain -- 7.1 Effectiveness of Competition in Russian Food Markets -- 7.2 Vertical Integration in the Russian Agro-food Sector -- 7.3 New Players in Russia's Food Marketing Chain -- 8 Institutional Issues in Rural Areas -- 8.1 Credit Markets in Rural Russia -- 8.2 Building Market Information Systems for the Agro-food Sector -- 9 Institutional Issues at the Farm-Level -- 9.1 Decollectivization and Restructuring of Farms -- 9.2 Organization of Russia's Large Scale Farms -- 9.3 Agricultural Enterprise Restructuring in Russia, 1991-95: an Efficiency Analysis -- 10 Synthesis -- 10.1 Policy Conclusions: An Agenda -- 10.2 Research Implications: Beyond Transition -- Contributing authors.