Mind and Labor on the Farm in Black-Earth Russia, 1861-1914 /

Mind and Labor on the Farm in Black-Earth Russia, 1861-1914 / / David Kerans.

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'...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
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Kerans, David,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©2001
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (511 p.) :; photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Maps
  • INTRODUCTION The Agrarian Problem as a History of Work
  • A Note on Sources
  • Notes
  • PART ONE FARMING THROUGH THE PEASANT'S EYES. THE EVOLUTION OF LABOR, 1861-1914
  • Methods of Cultivation
  • Growing Grain
  • Notes
  • PART TWO TOWARDS A HISTORY AND UNDERSTANDING OF AGRONOMIC APTITUDE
  • The Peasant Farmer and Soil: The Four Stages of Comprehension
  • Profit Maximizing, Utility Maximizing, or Something Else?
  • Conclusion From Faith in Routine to Belief in Agency
  • Notes
  • PART THREE. THE THREE-FIELD SYSTEM AND BEYOND
  • Systems of Agriculture, Systems of Farming, Crop Rotations. Delineation of Terms
  • The Fodder Crisis: Decay of the Three^Field System?
  • A System Despised
  • Multi-Field vs. Three-Field Systems
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • PART FOUR. GOVERNMENT'S SOLUTION TO THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM: THE STOLYPIN REFORM IN TAMBOV
  • What was the Stolypin Reform?
  • The Stolypin Reform in Tambov
  • Parcelized Holdings vs. Consolidated Plots: Conclusions
  • The Stolypin Reform and the Configuration of Peasant Lands
  • The Stolypin Reform in Action
  • Peasant Attitudes to Consolidated Plots
  • Farming on the Consolidated Plots
  • Agricultural Improvement
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • PART FIVE ALTERNATIVES FOR REFORM, PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT
  • Introduction
  • The Agronomic Aid Effort in Tambov
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Appendix. Nutrition and Mortality in Tambov, 1880-1914
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALL BOOKS, JOURNALS, AND ARCHIVES CITED
  • A MINIATURE GLOSSARY
  • SOME RUSSIAN WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
  • NOTE ON DATES
  • NOTE ON DATES

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