The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521194482
ISBN-13
9780521194488
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 28th, 2011
Print length
276 Pages
Weight
580 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.90 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
European historyModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900Social & cultural historySlavery & abolition of slaveryRural communities / rural lifeRural communitiesEconomic historyHistoryEuropean historySocial and cultural historySlavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery
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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. 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.
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.
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