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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808478903321

Autore

Dennison T. K (Tracy K.), <1970->

Titolo

The institutional framework of Russian serfdom / / Tracy Dennison [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-139-06336-7

1-107-21437-8

1-283-11250-7

9786613112507

1-139-07565-9

1-139-08248-5

1-139-08020-2

1-139-07791-0

0-511-97494-9

1-139-06989-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in economic history. Second series

Classificazione

HIS010010

Disciplina

306.3/650947

Soggetti

Serfdom - Russia - History

Peasants - Russia - Economic conditions

Peasants - Russia - Social conditions

Land tenure - Russia - History

Right of property - Russia - History

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Russia - History

Agriculture - Social aspects - Russia - History

Russia Rural conditions

Russia Economic conditions To 1861

Russia Commerce History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Why is Russia different? : culture, geography, institutions -- Voshchazhnikovo : a microcosm of nineteenth-century Russia -- Household structure and family economy -- The rural commune --



Land and property markets -- Labour markets -- Credit and savings -- Retail markets and consumption -- The institutional framework of Russian serfdom.

Sommario/riassunto

Russian rural history has long been based on a 'Peasant Myth', originating with nineteenth-century Romantics and still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows how Russian society looked from below, and finds nothing like the collective, redistributive and market-averse behaviour often attributed to Russian peasants. On the contrary, the Russian rural population was as integrated into regional and even national markets as many of its west European counterparts. Serfdom was a loose garment that enabled different landlords to shape economic institutions, especially property rights, in widely diverse ways. Highly coercive and backward regimes on some landlords' estates existed side-by-side with surprisingly liberal approximations to a rule of law. This book paints a vivid and colourful picture of the everyday reality of rural Russia before the 1861 abolition of serfdom.