2012: Vol 40 No 1

1. ARTICLES
THE ROLE OF CREDIT UNIONS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES IN CANADA Fortunate Mavenga and M. Rose Olfert Abstract	1
COMMUNICATION IN SWISS FARMING COOPERATIVES Martin Dobricki and Markus Lips Abstract	29
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION COOPERATIVES IN RUSSIA Svetlana Golovina, Jerker Nilsson, and Axel Wolz Abstract	44
ON THE RELATIVE DISADVANTAGE OF COOPERATIVES: VERTICAL PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION IN A MIXED OLIGOPOLY Dieter Pennerstorfer and Christoph R. Weiss Abstract	60
2. BOOK REVIEWS
Michal Palgi and Shulamit Reinharz One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life: A Century of Crises and Reinvention,New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2011, 330 pages *Zelda F. Gamson*	91
Lale Yal?in-Heckmann The Return of Private Property: Rural Life and Agrarian Reform in the Republic of Azerbaijan, Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia, Berlin: Lit Verlag and New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2010, 236 pages *Zvi Lerman*	95
3. CURRENT INFORMATION
Dissertation Abstracts	98