The Institutional Framework Of Russian Serfdom
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The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom
Author | : Tracy Dennison |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2011-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139496070 |
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Russian rural history has long been based on a 'Peasant Myth', originating with nineteenth-century Romantics and still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows how Russian society looked from below, and finds nothing like the collective, redistributive and market-averse behaviour often attributed to Russian peasants. On the contrary, the Russian rural population was as integrated into regional and even national markets as many of its west European counterparts. Serfdom was a loose garment that enabled different landlords to shape economic institutions, especially property rights, in widely diverse ways. Highly coercive and backward regimes on some landlords' estates existed side-by-side with surprisingly liberal approximations to a rule of law. This book paints a vivid and colourful picture of the everyday reality of rural Russia before the 1861 abolition of serfdom.
The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom
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Author | : Tracy K. Dennison |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 1139077910 |
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"Russian rural history has long been based on a "peasant myth" which originated with nineteenth-century Romantics and is still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows how Russian society looked from below, and finds nothing like the collective, redistributive, and market-averse behaviour often attributed to Russian peasants. On the contrary, the Russian rural population was as integrated into regional and even national markets as many of its west European counterparts. Serfdom was a loose garment that enabled different landlords to shape economic institutions, especially property rights, in widely diverse ways. Highly coercive and backward regimes on some landlords' estates existed side-by-side with surprisingly liberal approximations to a rule of law. This book paints a vivid and colourful picture of the everyday reality of rural Russia before the 1861 abolition of serfdom"--Provided by publisher.
Four Russian Serf Narratives
Author | : John MacKay |
Publsiher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2009-11-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780299233730 |
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Although millions of Russians lived as serfs until the middle of the nineteenth century, little is known about their lives. Identifying and documenting the conditions of Russian serfs has proven difficult because the Russian state discouraged literacy among the serfs and censored public expressions of dissent. To date scholars have identified only twenty known Russian serf narratives. Four Russian Serf Narratives contains four of these accounts and is the first translated collection of autobiographies by serfs. Scholar and translator John MacKay brings to light for an English-language audience a diverse sampling of Russian serf narratives, ranging from an autobiographical poem to stories of adventure and escape. “Autobiography” (1785) recounts a highly educated serf’s attempt to escape to Europe, where he hoped to study architecture. The long testimonial poem “News About Russia” (ca. 1849) laments the conditions under which the author and his fellow serfs lived. In “The Story of My Life and Wanderings” (1881) a serf tradesman tells of his attempt to simultaneously escape serfdom and captivity from Chechen mountaineers. The fragmentary “Notes of a Serf Woman” (1911) testifies to the harshness of peasant life with extraordinary acuity and descriptive power. These accounts offer readers a glimpse, from the point of view of the serfs themselves, into the realities of one of the largest systems of unfree labor in history. The volume also allows comparison with slave narratives produced in the United States and elsewhere, adding an important dimension to knowledge of the institution of slavery and the experience of enslavement in modern times.
A Life Under Russian Serfdom
Author | : Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii |
Publsiher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9637326154 |
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"Gorshkov's introduction provides some basic knowledge about Russian serfdom and draws upon the most recent scholarship. Notes provide references and general information about events, places and people mentioned in the memoirs."--Jacket.
A Companion to Gender History
Author | : Teresa A. Meade,Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 691 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780470692820 |
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A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of womenaround the world, studies their interaction with men in genderedsocieties, and looks at the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. An extensive survey of the history of women around the world,their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. Discusses family history, the history of the body andsexuality, and cultural history alongside women’s history andgender history. Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race andreligion to the formation of gendered societies. Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographicessays. Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as wellas to the modern era. Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world andscholars for whom English is not their first language.
Russia s Age of Serfdom 1649 1861
Author | : Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter |
Publsiher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105124095782 |
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Offering a broad interpretive history of the Russian Empire from the time of serfdom's codification until its abolition following the Crimean War, Wirtschafter considers the institution of serfdom, official social categories, and Russia's development as a country of peasants ruled by nobles, military commanders and civil servants.
The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia
Author | : Tomila V. Lankina |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2021-12-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781316512678 |
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Lankina traces the origins of Russia's inequalities over the past two centuries from the Tsarist institution of estates, through communism, to the present day.
The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia 1762 1907
Author | : David Moon |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105111294562 |
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In 1861 Tsar Alexander II issued the statutes abolishing the institution of serfdom in Russia. This book traces the origins of the abolition b ack to reforms in related areas in 1762 and forward to the culmination of the rocess in 1907.