Format:
1 online resource (276 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780521194488
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9781139080200
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
Content:
Russian rural history has long been based on a 'Peasant Myth', originating with nineteenth-century Romantics and still accepted by many historians today. This book looks beyond the myth to show how a vivid and colourful Russian society really looked from below before the 1861 abolition of serfdom
Note:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Preface -- A note on the value of the rouble -- A note on transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Map -- 1 Why is Russia different? Culture, geography, institutions -- 1.1 The Peasant Myth -- 1.2 Why a local study? -- 2 Voshchazhnikovo: a microcosm of nineteenth-century Russia -- 2.1 Local ecology and economy -- 2.2 Estate structure -- 3 Household structure and family economy -- 3.1 Approaches to the Russian peasant household -- 3.2 Methodological issues -- 3.3 Household size and structure -- 3.4 Marriage -- 3.5 Headship -- 3.6 The household economy -- 3.7 The role of serfdom -- 4 The rural commune -- 4.1 What was the rural commune? -- 4.2 The structure of the commune and its primary responsibilities -- Communal governance -- Land repartition -- Feudal obligations and taxation -- Maintenance of village infrastructure -- Welfare provision -- Conscription -- Conflict resolution -- Social order and conformity -- 4.3 The rural commune as an institution -- 5 Land and property markets -- 5.1 Property transactions -- 5.2 Serfs' rights to property -- 6 Labour markets -- 6.1 Labour on the Voshchazhnikovo estate -- Migrant labour -- Day labourers -- Servants in husbandry -- Purchased labour -- 6.2 Outmigration -- 6.3 Labour markets and the role of institutions -- 7 Credit and savings -- 7.1 Credit transactions -- 7.2 Enforcement -- 7.3 The local context -- 8 Retail markets and consumption -- 8.1 Local trade -- 8.2 Consumption -- 9 The institutional framework of Russian serfdom -- 9.1 Russian serfdom -- 9.2 Obstacles to growth -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Soul revisions -- Parish registers for voshchazhnikovo parish -- Household inventories -- Descriptions of estates -- Landlord's instructions and decrees
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Correspondence between the central administration and the estate -- Passport lists -- Communal resolutions -- Contracts -- Account books -- Petitions and other documents -- Secondary Sources -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Dennison, Tracy The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2011 ISBN 9780521194488
Language:
English
Keywords:
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