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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788111203321

Autore

Hoch Steven L.

Titolo

Essays in Russian social and economic history / / Steven L. Hoch ; book design by Ivan Grave

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Collana

Imperial Encounters in Russian History

Disciplina

305.5520947

Soggetti

Soziale Situation

Wirtschaftliche Lage

Leibeigener

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General

Russia Social conditions 1801-1917

Russia Economic conditions 1861-1917

Russia History 20th century

Russia History 19th century

Soviet Union Social conditions 20th century

Soviet Union Economic conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Did Russia's Emancipated Serfs Really Pay Too Much for Too Little Land? Statistical Anomalies and Long-Tailed Distributions -- 2. On Good Numbers and Bad: Malthus, Population Trends, and Peasant Standard of Living in Late Imperial Russia -- 3. Serfs in Imperial Russia Demographic Insights -- 4. Serf Diet in Nineteenth-Century Russia -- 5. Famine, Disease, and Mortality Patterns in the Parish of Borshevka, Russia, 1830-1912 -- 6. The Banking Crisis, Peasant Reform, and Economic Development in Russia, 1857-1861 -- 7. The Tax Censuses and the Decline of the Serf Population in Imperial Russia, 1833-1858 / Hoch, Steven L. / Augustine, Wilson R. -- 8. Tall Tales: Anthropometric Measures of Well-Being in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, 1821-1960 -- 9.



Bridewealth, Dowry, and Socioeconomic Differentiation in Rural Russia -- 10. The Serf Economy, the Peasant Family, and the Social Order -- 11. The Great Reformers and the World They Did Not Know: Drafting the Emancipation Legislation in Russia, 1858-61 -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this wide-ranging collection from Professor Steven L. Hoch of Washington State University, various facets of the life of Russia's rural population are examined, from banking crises and infectious diseases to peasant rituals and land reform. In contrast to longstanding interpretations of the Russian peasantry, Hoch's work emphasizes the role of social, epidemiological, and ecological forces in the formation of rural Russian society. Using sources infrequently considered by previous scholars, he assesses the impact of the broad economy on shaping the government polices of emancipation and land reform and the long-term consequences of these policies on peasant material well-being.