Russia on the move : railroads and the exodus from compulsory collectivism, 1861-1914 / Sylvia Sztern.
Sztern, Sylvia, author.
2022
HE3138 .S98 2022
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Title
Russia on the move : railroads and the exodus from compulsory collectivism, 1861-1914 / Sylvia Sztern.
Author
Sztern, Sylvia, author.
ISBN
9783030892852 (electronic bk.)
3030892859 (electronic bk.)
9783030892845
3030892840
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89285-2
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color).
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10.1007/978-3-030-89285-2 doi
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HE3138 .S98 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
385.0947
Summary
This book explores the impact of railroads on 19thcentury Russian peasant collectivism. The mutual-insurance mechanism in a precarious agricultural environment, provided bya structured communal-village system predicated on the reputation and authorityof community norms,is exposed to rationalist exchangeoccasioning an institutional adaptation process:the individualization of property rights in land. Spatial-mobility technology animated market integration, specialization, literacy,and human-capital acquisition among peasant wage workers who commuted from their villages.Temporarily rising transaction costs forced the Tsar to concede household property rights in land in the so-called Stolypin reform of 1906.This challenge to the imperial patrimony, powered by the railroads, steered late imperial Russia toward constitutional governance.The spatial-mobility technology gave peasants access to centers of agglomeration of knowledge, changedcognitive perceptions of distance, and reduced the uncertainty and opportunity costs of travel. The empirical findings in this monograph corroborate the conclusion that the railroads occasioned a cultural revolution in late imperial Russia and made Stalin unnecessary for the modernization of the Euro-asian giant. This book highlights the profound effect that the development of the railroads had on Russian economic and political institutions and practices. It will be of indispensable valueto students and researchers interested in transitional economics and economic history. Sylvia Sztern is a post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Studies in economic transition.
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1. Russia on the Move: Railroads and the Exodus from Compulsory Collectivism, 18611914
2. From Hierarchy to Egalitarianism: From Gerschenkron to GregoryDeduction and Induction from NIE/AEI Complementarity and the Regulationist Model
3. Through the Lenses of Theory: New Institutional Economics and American Evolutionary Institutionalism Railroads, Specialization, and Democracy in Late Tsarist Russia
4. Industrialization as a Precipitant of Tensions Between Tsardom and Nascent Civil Society
5. Peasantry and Land in Industrializing Late Tsarist Russia
6. The Railroads and the Metamorphoses of the Mir: Westernizer and Slavophile Conceptions Revisited
7. Secularization and Pious Subversion: To the Constitution by Rail
8. From Janus to Janus: Peter I, Nicholas II, and Industrialization
9. Was Stalin Necessary? Railroads and the Crumbling of the Obshchina in Tsarist Russia
10. Individualism and Collectivism: Measuring the Transition to Modernity in Tsarist Russian Peasant Society, Penza Province, 1913
11. Measurable Power: Railroads, Literacy, and the Crafts ArtelHierarchy in Disarray in Late Imperial Russia
12. Epilogue.

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