Land Reform in Russia, 1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin's Project of Rural Transformation
Judith Pallot
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.
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Year:
1999
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Language:
english
Pages:
255
ISBN 10:
1280445297
ISBN 13:
9781280445293
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PDF, 2.11 MB
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english, 1999