Peasant Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia, 1800-1921

This collection of original essays provides a rare in-depth look at peasant life in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European Russia. It is the first English-language text to deal extensively with peasant women and patriarchy; the role of magic, healing, and medicine in village life; communal economic innovation; rural poverty and labor migration from the village perspective; the agricultural hiring market as workers' turf; and the regional components of the late nineteenth-century agrarian crisis. Originally published in 1991. The **Princeton Legacy Library** uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Contents List of Illustrations List of Maps and Figures Preface Geographic Regions Breaking the Silence: An Introduction Part I. Peasant Economy Chapter 1. Peasant Communes and Economic Innovation: A Preliminary Inquiry Chapter 2. The Social Control of Peasant Labor in Russia: The Response of Village Communities to Labor Migration in the Central Industrial Region, 1861-1905 Chapter 3. Peasant Poverty in Theory and Practice: A View from Russia's "Impoverished Center" at the End of the Nineteenth Centure Chapter 4. Crises and the Condition of the Peasantry in Late Imperial Russia Part II. Peasant Culture Introduction Chapter 5. Victims or Actors? Russian Peasant Women and Patriarchy Chapter 6. Traditional Healers and Peasant Culture in Russia, 1861-1917 Part III. Peasant Politics Introduction Chapter 7. Everyday Forms of Resistance: Serf Opposition to Gentry Exactions, 1800-1861 Chapter 8. The Black and the Gold Seals: Popular Protests Against the Liquor Trade on the Eve of Emancipation Chapter 9. The Hiring Market as Workers' Turf: Migrant Agricultural Laborers and the Mobilization of Collective Action in the Steppe Grainbelt of European Russia, 1853-1913 Chapter 10. Peasants and Politics: Peasant Unions During the 1905 Revolution Chapter 11. Peasant Farmers and the Minority Groups of Rural Society: Peasant Egalitarianism and Village Social Relations During the Russian Revolution (1917-1921) Notes on Contributors Glossary Index This collection of original essays provides a rare in-depth look at peasant life in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European Russia. It is the first English-language text to deal extensively with peasant women and patriarchy; the role of magic, healing, and medicine in village life; communal economic innovation; rural poverty and labor migration from the village perspective; the agricultural hiring market as workers' turf; and the regional components of the late nineteenth-century agrarian crisis. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905