SERFDOM AND SOCIAL CONTROL IN NINETEENTH CENTURY RUSSIA
Author: Steven Laurence Hoch
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Published: 1984
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Author: Steven Laurence Hoch
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Published: 1984
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven L. Hoch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1989-01-15
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0226345858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven Laurence Hoch
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 261
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tracy Dennison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-04-28
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1139496077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussian 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.
Author: Alessandro Stanziani
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1782382518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards in form of indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa. Stanziani shows that unfree labor and forms of economic coercion were perfectly compatible with market development and capitalism, proven by the consistent economic growth that took place all over Eurasia between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. This growth was labor intensive: commercial expansion, transformations in agriculture, and the first industrial revolution required more labor, not less. Finally, Stanziani demonstrates that this world did not collapse after the French Revolution or the British industrial revolution, as is commonly assumed, but instead between 1870 and 1914, with the second industrial revolution and the rise of the welfare state.
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Published: 1976
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michelle Lamarche Marrese
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-09-05
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1501728512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn A Woman's Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noblewomen's unusual property rights. In contrast to women in Western Europe, who could not control their assets during marriage until the second half of the nineteenth century, married women in Russia enjoyed the right to alienate and manage their fortunes beginning in 1753. Marrese traces the extension of noblewomen's right to property and places this story in the broader context of the evolution of private property in Russia before the Great Reforms of the 1860s. Historians have often dismissed women's property rights as meaningless. In the patriarchal society of Imperial Russia, a married woman could neither work nor travel without her husband's permission, and divorce was all but unattainable. Yet, through a detailed analysis of women's property rights from the Petrine era through the abolition of serfdom in 1861, Marrese demonstrates the significance of noblewomen's proprietary power. She concludes that Russian noblewomen were unique not only for the range of property rights available to them, but also for the active exercise of their legal prerogatives.A remarkably broad source base provides a solid foundation for Marrese's conclusions. These sources comprise more than eight thousand transactions from notarial records documenting a variety of property transfers, property disputes brought to the Senate, noble family papers, and a vast memoir literature. A Woman's Kingdom stands as a masterful challenge to the existing, androcentric view of noble society in Russia before Emancipation.
Author: Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9789637326158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Gorshkov's introduction provides some basic knowledge about Russian serfdom and draws upon the most recent scholarship. Notes provide references and general information about events, places and people mentioned in the memoirs."--Jacket.
Author: Christoph Witzenrath
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2022-11-21
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 3110696436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe monograph realigns political culture and countermeasures against slave raids, which increased during the breakup of the Golden Horde. By physical defense of the open steppe border and by embracing the New Israel symbolism in which the exodus from slavery in Egypt prefigures the exodus of Russian captives from Tatar captivity, Muscovites found a defensive model to expand empire. Recent scholarly debates on slaving are innovatively applied to Russian and imperial history, challenging entrenched perceptions of Muscovy.
Author: Ben Eklof
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-10-13
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1003807712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1990 The World of the Russian Peasant is designed to provide a wide-ranging survey of new developments in Russian peasant studies. Editors Eklof and Frank paint a broad picture of what life was like for the vast majority of Russia’s population before 1917. Individual authors treat the intricacies of the village community and peasant commune, social structure, the everyday life and labour of peasant women, the impact of migration, the spread of education, and peasant art, religion, justice, and politics. The result is a portrait of a people greatly influenced by rapid and radical changes in the world yet seeking to maintain control over their lives and their communities. This is a must read for students of Russian history, Russian peasantry and rural sociology.