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"Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. This book analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Ekaterina Pravilova is associate professor of history at Princeton University.
Zusammenfassung
"Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. This book analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917.
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"A highly original and essential re-assessment of the role of property rights in Russia during the last days of empire and through the revolution. . . . A short summary cannot do justice to all the insights and scholarly contributions of this book. . . . The book will be mandatory reading for all historians and graduate students, as it refocuses on the possibilities--and limitations--of the tsarist system. Pravilova has identified the crucial nexus between law, property, and change, providing a vivid snapshot of where Imperial Russia stood on the eve of revolution."---William E. Pomeranz, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review
