Rural problematics in the Baltic countries / Ilkka Alanen -- The transformation of agricultural systems in the Baltic countries : a critique of the World Bank's concept / Ilkka Alanen -- Rural communities in the Baltic states and post-communist transition / Rein Ruutsoo -- Constructing capitalist firms : former socialist industrial complexes and their struggle for survival / Jouko Nikula -- Networks, skills and trust : the necessary ingredients of rural entrepreneurship in the Baltic countries? / Jouko Nikula -- From agriculture to tourism : constructing new relations between rural nature and culture in Lithuania and Finland / Leo Granberg -- Trends in development in Lithuanian agricultural policy / Donatas Stanikunas, Irena Krisciukaitiene, Romualdas Zemeckis -- Means of subsistence and welfare in a small rural community in south Estonia / Raija-Liisa Kèamèarèainen -- Rural community initiatives in the Latvian countryside / Talis Tisenkopfs, Sandra Sumane -- The adjustment of the elderly to socio-economic change in rural Estonia / Leeni Hansson, Marjatta Marin -- The significance of the research results / Ilkka Alanen.