Transforming Peasants: Society, State and the Peasantry, 1861–1930

✍ Scribed by Judith Pallot (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Series: International Council for Central and East European Studies
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The essays in this collection explore the social 'construction' of the Russian peasantry in the period between Emancipation and Collectivisation, and the impact of these constructions on Tsarist and Bolshevik agrarian policy. The international group of authors represent different trends in the historical, sociological and geographical investigations of the East European peasantry and draw both upon the insights of cultural studies and recently available archival materials to throw new light on the relationship between peasantry and other classes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
How Peasants Became Backward: Agrarian Policy and Co-operatives in Russia, 1905–14....Pages 15-36
Exhibiting Kustar’ Industry in Late Imperial Russia/Exhibiting Late Imperial Russia in Kustar’ Industry....Pages 37-63
Tracking Social Change Through Sport Hunting....Pages 64-72
The Moral Community and Peasant Nationalism in Nineteenth-century Poland....Pages 73-89
Revolution and Grassroots Re-evaluations of Russian Orthodoxy: Parish Clergy and Peasants of Voronezh Province, 1905–17....Pages 90-112
The ‘Peasantisation’ of the Soviet Working Class: Peasant Migration’s Ebb and Flow, 1917–32....Pages 113-129
Ukrainian Settlement Patterns in the Kirgiz Steppe Before 1917: Ukrainian Colonies or Russian Integration?....Pages 130-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
‘A Wager on History’: The Stolypin Agrarian Reforms as Process....Pages 149-173
The First World War and the Disintegration of Economic Spaces in Russia....Pages 174-193
Economic Relations Between Russia and Turkestan, 1914–18, or How to Start a Famine....Pages 194-209
The Soft Line on Agriculture: The Case of Narkomzem and its Specialists, 1921–27....Pages 210-237
Re-evaluating Stalin’s Peasant Policy in 1928–30....Pages 238-257
Back Matter....Pages 259-264

✦ Subjects

Russian, Soviet, and East European History; Political Science; Sociology, general; Modern History; European History