Tsardom of sufficiency, empire of norms : statistics, land allotments, and agrarian reform in Russia, 1700-1921 / David W. Darrow.

An examination of how land became a measured entitlement in Russia.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Darrow, David W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note about Translations, Transliterations, and Dates; Introduction The New Land Allotment Tradition, the New Moral Economy; 1 Setting the Precedent: The State of Sufficiency; 2 Serf Emancipation: Sanctifying the Normed Nadel, Measuring Its Sufficiency; 3 Normalizing the Nadel and Peasant Economy: History and Zemstvo Statistics; 4 "Normal" Households: Economic Development and the Middle Peasant; 5 Stolypin's Wager on the Middle: Land Norms and "Sufficiency"; 6 Land Norms as Social Justice in Revolution, Civil War, and Beyond.
  • Conclusion The Legacy of Serfdom and Persistence of the Sufficient NadelNotes; Bibliography; Index.