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

Darrow, David W.,

Tsardom of sufficiency, empire of norms : statistics, land allotments, and agrarian reform in Russia, 1700-1921 / David W. Darrow. - Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (368 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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



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Allotment of land--History.--Russia
Allotment of land--Statistics--History.--Russia
Land reform--History.--Russia
Agriculture and state--History.--Russia
Agriculture and state--Statistics--History.--Russia
Peasants--Government policy--History.--Russia
Peasants--Economic conditions--Russia--Statistic.


Electronic Books.

HD1992 / .T737 2018