LEADER 01837nlm 2200301 4450 001 996596870503316 005 20240530125846.0 010 $a9781139065313$b(ebook) 100 $a20101011d2011---- uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 102 $aUk 135 $adrcnu 200 1 $a<> institutional framework of Russian serfdom$fTracy Dennison 210 1 $aCambridge$cCambridge University Press$d2011 215 $aTesto elettronico (PDF) (XIX, 254 p.) 225 2 $aCambridge studies in economic history 230 $aBase dati testuale 330 $aRussian rural history has long been based on a 'Peasant Myth', originating with nineteenth-century Romantics and still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows how Russian society looked from below, and finds nothing like the collective, redistributive and market-averse behaviour often attributed to Russian peasants. On the contrary, the Russian rural population was as integrated into regional and even national markets as many of its west European counterparts. Serfdom was a loose garment that enabled different landlords to shape economic institutions, especially property rights, in widely diverse ways. Highly coercive and backward regimes on some landlords' estates existed side-by-side with surprisingly liberal approximations to a rule of law. This book paints a vivid and colourful picture of the everyday reality of rural Russia before the 1861 abolition of serfdom. 410 0$aCambridge studies in economic history 606 0 $aAgricoltura$xEconomia$yRussia$xStoria$2BNCF 676 $a306.3650947 700 1$aDennison$bT. K$g(Tracy K.),$f1970-$01016150 801 0$aIT$bcba$cREICAT 912 $a996596870503316 959 $aEB 969 $aER 996 $aInstitutional framework of Russian serfdom$94159124 997 $aUNISA