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1 Online-Ressource (539 Seiten)
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9783030892852
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Studies in Economic Transition Series
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Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction -- References -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Russia on the Move: Railroads and the Exodus from Compulsory Collectivism, 1861-1914 -- Aims and Contents of This Monograph -- Theoretical Framework: The Composite NIE/AEI Model -- Endogenous and Exogenous Explanatory Factors -- The Gerschenkronian-Szternian-Gregorian Conception -- Structure of the Monograph -- Chapter 2. From Hierarchy to Egalitarianism: From Gerschenkron to Gregory-Deduction and Induction from NIE/AEI Complementarity and the Regulationist Model -- Chapter 3. Through the Lenses of Theory: New Institutional Economics and American Evolutionary Institutionalism-The Railroads, National Market Formation, and Democracy in Late Tsarist Russia -- Chapter 4. Industrialization and Tensions Between Tsardom and Nascent Civil Society -- Chapter 5. The Peasant and His Ties to the Land in the Tsarist Industrialization -- Chapter 6. The Railroad and the Metamorphosis of the Mir: Westernizer and Slavophile Conceptions Revisited -- Chapter 7. Secularization and Pious Subversion: To the Constitution by Rail -- Chapter 8. Tsarist Modernization, the Peter-to-Nicholas-Continuity, and Progress through Reform -- Chapter 9. Was Stalin Necessary? The Railroads and the Crumbling of the Obshchina in Tsarist Russia -- Chapter 10. Individualism and Collectivism: Measuring the Transition to Modernity in Tsarist Russian Peasant Society, Penza Province, 1913 -- Chapter 11. Measurable Power: Railroads, Literacy, and the Crafts Artel-Hierarchy in Disarray in Late Imperial Russia -- References -- Chapter 2: From Hierarchy to Egalitarianism: From Gerschenkron to Gregory-Deduction and Induction from NIE/AEI Complementarity and the Regulationist Model -- An Institutional Transition from Personalized to Impersonalized Rights
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Locus and Type of Rule in Tsarist Russia -- Peter I and His Notion of the Rule of Law: Militarized Absolutism -- Catherine II: Ambivalent Steps Toward the Impersonalization of Law -- Did the 1864 Judicial Reform Institute the Rule of Law? -- Patriarchal Authority as the Source of Law, Personalized Institutions, and Erosion of Estate Cohesion -- Laws in the Service of Political Goals -- Skill Accumulation As the Source of Corporate Demand for Legality -- Emancipation and Redemption in the 1861-1863 Statutes: Enforcement of the Peasant Commune as an Unintended Paradoxical Challenge to Totalitarian Atomization -- Industrialization as the Foremost Challenge to Personalized Institutions Until 1906 -- The Labor-Mobility Barrier to Industrialization -- Gerschenkron and the Immutable Backwardness of the Peasantry: A Critique -- Witte's System and Gerschenkron's Entrepreneurial-State Theory -- Gerschenkron's Theory of Relative Backwardness -- Gerschenkron in a Coasian Mirror -- Theoretical Tools of Analysis: The New Institutional Economics (NIE)-Critical Realist (CR) Challenge and American Evolutionary Institutionalism (AEI) -- The Historiographical Orientation -- The Gerschenkronian Proposal, the Revisionist Challenge, and My Argument: The Questions I Seek to Answer -- The Railroads and the Metamorphoses of the Obshchina and the Tsarist Autocracy -- Population Increase and the Mobility Barrier -- Gerschenkronian State Entrepreneurship and Modernization -- The State, the Railroad, and the Mir: From Compliance with Authority to Rational Calculus -- Empirical Aspects, the Railroad, and the Landholding System -- Summarizing Remarks -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Through the Lenses of Theory: New Institutional Economics and American Evolutionary Institutionalism-Railroads, Specialization, and Democracy in Late Tsarist Russia
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How Railroad Construction in Tsarist Russia Demonstrates the Complementarity of NIE and AEI -- The Theoretical Angle: The Legitimacy of the NIE/AEI Combination-Critical Realism Challenges NIE -- NIE: The Rationalist Explanation of Peasant Custom -- Bounded Rationality: The NIE-AEI Bridge -- How Far Apart Are NIE and AEI in Distributing Determination of Action between Agency and Structure? -- Critical Realism -- The Marxian Angle -- Is NIE Incongruent with CR in Principle, Refuting the Temporal Priority of Structure? -- Should a Neoclassically Shaped NIE be Conceived of As Realistic in a Sense Other Than CR? -- American Evolutionary Institutionalism and Darwinian Economics: Adaptation of Peasant Customs to Conditions of Life through Natural Selection -- My Hypothesis of NIE/AEI Complementarity -- Known Theory Combinations: Bridging NIE and AEI through the Economics of Cognition -- Rational Choice/Atomist Universalism: NIE-Indispensable But Insufficient for Understanding the Russian Peasant's Transformation -- Psychological and Sociological Perspectives -- Neo-Institutionalism -- NIE and AEI Understood As Mutually Complementary -- Habits and Evolution -- Reflections on the Theory of Institutional Change -- Informal Institutional Change in a Path-Dependent Society -- Applying the Boyer and Orlean Model to Russia, 1890-1906 -- Precipitants of Endogenous Change -- Lagged Institutional Adaptation: Stolypin's Land Reform (1906) -- Summarizing the Complementarity of Perspectives in This Chapter -- c = Methodological Collective -- i = Methodological Individualism -- Historical Application: Linking the Railroads to Democracy -- The 1861-1914 Transition within Applicable Explanatory Frameworks -- The Reforms and Their Political Aims -- Property and Political Freedom: The Nexus -- Stolypin's Reforms: Intentions and Consequences
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Railroad Construction and Its Unintended Consequences -- References -- Chapter 4: Industrialization as a Precipitant of Tensions Between Tsardom and Nascent Civil Society -- The Autocracy Tentatively Engages Its Citizens -- The Tsarist State and the Costs of Dictatorship: The Gerschenkronian Conception and Imperial Self-Perpetuation -- Industrialization Productivity and Income in the Russian Village Commune -- Industrialization and the Invasion of Modernity -- Tensions Between the Rigid Traditional Order and the Social Effects of Industrialization -- External Invasion and an Endogenous Change of Values Topple ESS -- References -- Chapter 5: Peasantry and Land in Industrializing Late Tsarist Russia -- Gerschenkron versus Gregory: Mobility Barriers and Transition from Extensive to Intensive Growth -- The Hesse-Boserup Perspective: Railroads, Population Increase, and the End of Land Reallotment -- Hesse and the Causes of Population Increase -- Introducing Discontinuity in Compulsory Collectivism -- Tsarist Industrialization Interpreted: Gerschenkron versus Gregory -- Was the Peasant Standard of Living Sacrificed on the Altar of Industrialization? Gregory Challenges Gerschenkron -- Elasticity of Collectivist Land Repartitioning, Population Increase, and Risk of Poverty -- Bideleux versus Gerschenkron-Mobility Barrier, Agrarian Property Rights, and Productivity -- The Ideologically Inspired Concept of Relative Poverty in Soviet Sources -- Wage Labor and Migration as Buffers against Impoverishment -- How Coercive Was the Enforcement of Collectivist Custom in the Post-Emancipation Commune? -- Formal Restrictions and the Head of Household's Decision Matrix -- The Impact of the 1861 Emancipation Act -- The Rationality of the Nineteenth-Century Russian Peasant
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Peasant Allotment, Private Land, and Productivity Increase in Rural Russia: Indications of Innovative Investment in Agriculture -- Serfdom and Its Relevance -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: The Railroads and the Metamorphoses of the Mir: Westernizer and Slavophile Conceptions Revisited -- Collectivism versus Individualism -- Compulsory versus Voluntary Collectivism: Pre-Modern Risk Insurance -- Cooperation and Mutual Assistance through Peasant Collectivism -- Khozhdenie v Kusochki-"Crust-Seeking" -- Redistribution of Movable Capital -- The Serfdom Commune Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Rural Custom -- Serfdom-Cohesion versus Atomization in the Long-Term Post-Emancipation Imprint -- Communal Tenure and Innovation -- The Legacy of Serfdom and Kinship -- The Legitimacy of the Malthusian-Trap Assumption -- Changing Types of Collectivism -- Cooperation in the Late Post-Emancipation Era -- Peasant Collectivism versus Marxist Class Cohesion -- Intergenerational Shift of Power to the Young -- Diffusion of Egalitarianism and Subversion -- The Commune: A Vehicle of Organized Subversion after the Emancipation -- Unintended Consolidation -- Structural Preconditions-Structural Preconditioning versus Individualism in Property Relations -- Natural Calamities and the Origins of the Commune -- Serfdom as a Historical Calamity? -- What Brought Serfdom Down? -- The Village Commune, Dependence on the Landlord, and Individualism of the Emancipation Era-The Determinants of Serfdom -- Communalism or Individualism and Strife in the Final Phases of the Commune? -- Theoretical Interpretation -- Summarizing Remarks -- References -- Chapter 7: Secularization and Pious Subversion: To the Constitution by Rail -- Railroads and Pious Subversion -- The Railroads: A Challenge to Orthodox Enforcement of Mutual Insurance
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The Railroads Abet Peasant Individualism: The Rational Peasant, the Church
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sztern, Sylvia Russia on the Move Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 ISBN 9783030892845
Language:
English
Keywords:
Russland
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Industrialisierung
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Ländliche Entwicklung
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Landwirtschaft
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung
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Eisenbahn
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Eisenbahnbau
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Geschichte 1861-1914
