Peasant Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia, 1800-1921 / / ed. by Esther Kingston-Mann, Timothy Mixter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bohac, Rodney,; Burds, Jeffrey,; Christian, David,; Figes, Orlando,; Kingston-Mann, Esther,; Mixter, Timothy,; Ramer, Samuel C.,; Seregny, Scott J.,; Wheatcroft, Stephen G.,; Wilbur, Elvira M.,; Worobec, Christine D.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kingston-Mann, Esther,; Mixter, Timothy,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1105
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)

This collection of original essays provides a rare in-depth look at peasant life in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European Russia. It is the first English-language text to deal extensively with peasant women and patriarchy; the role of magic, healing, and medicine in village life; communal...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Maps and Figures
• Preface
• Geographic Regions
• Breaking the Silence: An Introduction
• Part I. Peasant Economy
• Chapter 1. Peasant Communes and Economic Innovation: A Preliminary Inquiry
• Chapter 2. The Social Control of Peasant Labor in Russia: The Response of Village Communities to Labor Migration in the Central Industrial Region, 1861-1905
• Chapter 3. Peasant Poverty in Theory and Practice: A View from Russia's "Impoverished Center" at the End of the Nineteenth Centure
• Chapter 4. Crises and the Condition of the Peasantry in Late Imperial Russia
• Part II. Peasant Culture
• Introduction
• Chapter 5. Victims or Actors? Russian Peasant Women and Patriarchy
• Chapter 6. Traditional Healers and Peasant Culture in Russia, 1861-1917
• Part III. Peasant Politics
• Introduction
• Chapter 7. Everyday Forms of Resistance: Serf Opposition to Gentry Exactions, 1800-1861
• Chapter 8. The Black and the Gold Seals: Popular Protests Against the Liquor Trade on the Eve of Emancipation
• Chapter 9. The Hiring Market as Workers' Turf: Migrant Agricultural Laborers and the Mobilization of Collective Action in the Steppe Grainbelt of European Russia, 1853-1913
• Chapter 10. Peasants and Politics: Peasant Unions During the 1905 Revolution
• Chapter 11. Peasant Farmers and the Minority Groups of Rural Society: Peasant Egalitarianism and Village Social Relations During the Russian Revolution (1917-1921)
• Notes on Contributors
• Glossary
• Index