Peasant Dreams & Market Politics: Labor Migration and the Russian Village, 1861-1905 (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies)

The politics of reputation: toward an anthropology of the personal Emancipation, interregnum, and rural crisis The roots of ambivalence: peasant labor migration as a threat to village security In defense of peasant patriarchalism: institutional responses to peasant labor migration Autocratic authority and the peasant "little community": state agents, village officials, and community opinion The social control of peasant labor: the alliance of family and community The sociology of class: peasant communes and market brokers The logic of solidarity: migrants and villagers Legacies: Otkhod and Russian popular culture A culture of acquisition: the genesis of mass consumer culture in rural Russia A culture of denunciation: patterns of religious anathematization in rural Russia. Examines how peasant migration--the movement of males to cities for wage labor--affected villages before the Bolshevik revolution. New Russian sources are utilized.The strength of his presentation is in its rich, well-informed description of specific cases, often with long quotations from primary sources new to the literature, together with complete command of the modern literature on peasant Russia."--Choice Nov 98His eye for the telling details of social relations, consumption, reputation, and the principals of navigation between two worlds illuminate subject after subject."--James C. Scott, Yale University