Abstract
When considering the prospects for agrarian reform in Russia, it is important to remember that people matter. It is all too easy to forget that the human factor exerts a profound influence on agrarian performance. Migration out of rural areas during the Soviet period drained the countryside of the young, the skilled and the ambitious. Rural migration trends since 1990 have not overcome the earlier consequences. In particular, spatial polarization remains a problem, new arrivals in rural areas have a non‐agricultural background, and the general demographic base for private agriculture is weak. Demographic factors therefore exert a profound influence on the Russian agricultural sector, making it difficult for reform initiatives to be optimized.
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