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Making Peasants Backward
Yanni Kotsonis
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Description for Making Peasants Backward
Hardback. In this monograph on the Russian cooperative movement before 1914, economic and social change is considered alongside Russian political culture. It suggests how cooperatives reflected a pan-European dilemma over whether and to what extent populations could participate in their own transformation. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFSC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 475.
In this first monograph on the Russian cooperative movement before 1914, economic and social change is considered alongside Russian political culture. Looking at such historical actors as Sergei Witte, Piotr Stolypin, and Alexander Chaianov, and by tapping into several newly opened Russian local and state archives on peasant practice in the movement, Kotsonis suggests how cooperatives reflected a pan-European dilemma over whether and to what extent populations could participate in their own transformation.
In this first monograph on the Russian cooperative movement before 1914, economic and social change is considered alongside Russian political culture. Looking at such historical actors as Sergei Witte, Piotr Stolypin, and Alexander Chaianov, and by tapping into several newly opened Russian local and state archives on peasant practice in the movement, Kotsonis suggests how cooperatives reflected a pan-European dilemma over whether and to what extent populations could participate in their own transformation.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
Number of Pages
245
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333725870
SKU
V9780333725870
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Yanni Kotsonis
YANNI KOTSONIS was raised in Athens, educated in Montreal, Copenhagen, London, and New York, and first taught history at the University of Essex (lecturer in Russian and Comparative history, 1993-94). He currently teaches European and Russian history at New York University, (Assistant Professor of History, Modern Europe and Russia, since 1994).
Reviews for Making Peasants Backward
'In his original and imaginative book, Dr Kotsonis considers the rival projects for peasant reform in Tsarist Russia, and their impact on life and work of the peasants. The author argues that all these schemes, from the conservative to the radical left, assumed that the peasants were 'backward', and should be guided to a better progressive future. This was the ... Read more