While the Eastern European countries have a shared history of socialism for varying periods of time, there are strong social, economic, and philosophical differences. In addition, the Eastern European reforms have been affected by the individual countries’ recent histories from 1989 onward as well as their socialist pasts.
Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus in the Western CIS still do not have a legal and policy framework that adequately allows for private land ownership, private farms, or efficient land transactions. They are still struggling over what the role of the state should be in relation to agricultural land use and productivity. The state has firm control of agricultural land and there is not enough political will to prevail over the former communists who oppose private ownership and sale of agricultural land.
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