The institutional framework of Russian serfdom/ Tracy Dennison.
2011
HD714 .D46 2011
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Title
The institutional framework of Russian serfdom/ Tracy Dennison.
ISBN
9780521194488 (hardback)
9781139080200 (electronic bk.)
9781139080200 (electronic bk.)
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xix, 254 p. : ill., map.
Call Number
HD714 .D46 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.3/650947
Summary
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cambridge studies in economic history.
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Table of Contents
Why is Russia different? : culture, geography, institutions
Voshchazhnikovo : a microcosm of nineteenth-century Russia
Household structure and family economy
The rural commune
Land and property markets
Labour markets
Credit and savings
Retail markets and consumption
The institutional framework of Russian serfdom.
Voshchazhnikovo : a microcosm of nineteenth-century Russia
Household structure and family economy
The rural commune
Land and property markets
Labour markets
Credit and savings
Retail markets and consumption
The institutional framework of Russian serfdom.