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The institutional framework of Russian serfdom /
"Russian rural history has long been based on a "peasant myth" which originated with nineteenth-century Romantics and is still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows how Russian society looked from below, and finds nothing like the collective, redistribu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in economic history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Russian rural history has long been based on a "peasant myth" which originated with nineteenth-century Romantics and is 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"--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 254 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-250) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139082488 1139082485 9781139077910 1139077910 9781139080200 1139080202 9786613112507 661311250X 1139063367 9781139063364 1107214378 9781107214378 1283112507 9781283112505 1139075659 9781139075657 0511974949 9780511974946 1139069896 9781139069892 |