Land Reform in Russia, 1906-1917 - Peasant Responses to Stolypin''s Project of Rural Transformation

Zusatztext Judith Pallots creative book promises and delivers the first intensive examination of the land reform per se for the whole decade in question! from its inception in the central government to the process of implementation at the local level! all the while bringing to bear the authors considerable skills as a historical geographer. Klappentext This is the first English-language text to examine in detail how, in the period between 1905 and 1917, Russia's peasants received, interpreted, and acted upon government attempts through the Stolypin Land Reforms to transform them into independent, small-holder farmers. Zusammenfassung Since the collapse of the USSR there has been a growing interest in the Stolypin Land Reform as a possible model for post-Communist agrarian development. Using recent theoretical and empirical advances in Anglo-American research, Dr Pallot examines how peasants throughout Russia received, interpreted, and acted upon the government's attempts to persuade them to quit the commune and set up independent farms. She shows how a majority of peasants failed to interpret the Reform in the way its authors had expected, with outcomes that varied both temporally and geographically. The result challenges existing texts which either concentrate on the policy side of the Reform or, if they engage with its results, use aggregated, official statistics which, this text argues, are unreliable indicators of the pre-revolutionary peasants reception of the Reform. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Land Reform as Administrative Utopia Open Fields, Scattered Strips, and Repartitions Free Riders and Village-Wide Consolidations The Government in for us, Otrubniki Everyday Forms of Resistance to the Stolypin Reform Peasant Modification and Adaptation of the Reform Farming in the Immediate Post-Enclosure Years Conclusion

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• Authors: Judith Pallot, Judith (Lecturer Pallot, Pallot Judith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.1999
• EAN: 9780198206569
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820656-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Economic history, Property & real estate, Far-left political ideologies and movements, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, C 1900 - C 1914, Marxism & Communism, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Property and real estate, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era