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Mind and Labor on the Farm in Black-earth Russia, 1861-1914
David Kerans
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hardcover. A re-examination of Russia's agrarian history and failure to transform to a rapidly changing world economy. Using literary, agronomic and statistical information, peasant life is unravelled to demonstrate the inherent limits of farming at that time. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLL; JPFC; KCZ; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 34. Weight in Grams: 905.
Did Tsarist Russia's political and industrial backwardness result from its rigid and archaic agrarian structure? Did the Russian revolution stem in large part from a parasitical elite's exploitation of an enormous peasant class? Was the Russian peasantry itself backward and 'dark' as a result? The attention contemporaries and historians have lavished on these questions has enshrined them as fundamental issues in Russian history. This text endeavours to recast our understanding of the agrarian problem by uncovering the history of both the physical and mental dimensions of agriculture. Employing literary, agronomic and statistical information on peasant labour and culture, this book ... Read more
Did Tsarist Russia's political and industrial backwardness result from its rigid and archaic agrarian structure? Did the Russian revolution stem in large part from a parasitical elite's exploitation of an enormous peasant class? Was the Russian peasantry itself backward and 'dark' as a result? The attention contemporaries and historians have lavished on these questions has enshrined them as fundamental issues in Russian history. This text endeavours to recast our understanding of the agrarian problem by uncovering the history of both the physical and mental dimensions of agriculture. Employing literary, agronomic and statistical information on peasant labour and culture, this book ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Central European University Press Hungary
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
491
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9789639116948
SKU
V9789639116948
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About David Kerans
David Kerans is Researcher at the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University.
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