- Valery Patsiorkovsky, David O’Brien, Stephen K. Wegren – Land Reform and Land Relations in Rural Russia;
- Zemfira I. Kalugina – The Rural Labour Market in present-day Russia;
- Inna Kopoteva – From Government to Governance: Is there such a shift in the Russian Countryside?
RESEARCH REPORTS AND MATERIALS
- Barbara Tryfan – Inter-generational Relations and the Polish Farmers’ Pension System;
- Laure Latruffe – Functioning of the Rural Credit Market in Poland: Case Studies of Farmers and Banks;
- Alexander Thomka – The Informal Economy and Viability of Small Family Farms in Romania;
- Rosemarie Siebert, Axel Dosch – Cooperative Networks in Rural Development – Experiences from the Pilot Programme “Regional Action”
REVIEWS AND INFORMATION
- Elwira Piszczek – New Areas of Research in German Rural Sociology;
- Jolanta Maciąg – Transformation Trends in Central and Eastern Europe;
- Anna Pluskota-Lewandowska – Central and East European Countryside and Agriculture from the Japanese Perspective;
- Paweł Starosta – Transformation of Estonian Agriculture and Countryside;
- Jolanta Maciąg – Central Eastern Europe Feedback Seminar Multiagri WP4 Multifunctionality of Activities, Helsinki, 3-4 December 2004;
- Sylwia Michalska – The Common Agricultural Policy’s Challenges after EU Enlargement;
- Władysław Adamski – Evaluative Remarks on “Eastern European Countryside”