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the people of Rusisia and tbe FSU who must create and operate these Institutions is the most 

 promisiag avenue to long-run and durable reform. A massive investment in human capital is 

 needed, and It is to this end that tbe United States should concentrate its aid. 



Biographical Sketch 



Philip M. Raup (AB, University of Kansas, 1939; PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1949) Is Professor 

 Emeritus, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul. 

 His interest in Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe dates from 1945-49 when he served 

 as Chief Land Officer and later as Acting Chief, Food and Agriculture Branch, Office of Military 

 Government for Germany (U.S.). in Berlin. His PhD thesis dealt with Soviet agricultural policy 

 in occupied Germany. 



He was Secretary ttf tbe World Land Tenure Conference (University of Wisconsin, 1951) and ct>- 

 editor of Tjind Tenure (Universi^ of Wisconsin Press, 1 956); co-author of 1h& Oiangine Structure 

 fif E urope. (University of Minnesota Press, 1970); and contributed chapters on agricultural policy 

 to six books dealing with the Soviet economy, inchiding Communist Agriculture (KJB. Waedekin, 

 Ed, Routledge, London, 1990). He made five study tours of the former Soviet Union between 

 1958 and 1991. 



