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.