Transforming peasants : society, state and the peasantry, 1861-1930 : selected papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995

The essays in this collection explore the social 'construction' of the Russian peasantry in the period between Emancipation and Collectivisation, and the impact of these constructions on Tsarist and Bolshevik agrarian policy. The international group of authors represent different trends in the historical, sociological and geographical investigations of the East European peasantry and draw both upon the insights of cultural studies and recently available archival materials to throw new light on the relationship between peasantry and other classes. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Introduction....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 How Peasants Became Backward: Agrarian Policy and Co-operatives in Russia, 1905–14....Pages 15-36 Exhibiting Kustar’ Industry in Late Imperial Russia/Exhibiting Late Imperial Russia in Kustar’ Industry....Pages 37-63 Tracking Social Change Through Sport Hunting....Pages 64-72 The Moral Community and Peasant Nationalism in Nineteenth-century Poland....Pages 73-89 Revolution and Grassroots Re-evaluations of Russian Orthodoxy: Parish Clergy and Peasants of Voronezh Province, 1905–17....Pages 90-112 The ‘Peasantisation’ of the Soviet Working Class: Peasant Migration’s Ebb and Flow, 1917–32....Pages 113-129 Ukrainian Settlement Patterns in the Kirgiz Steppe Before 1917: Ukrainian Colonies or Russian Integration?....Pages 130-145 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 ‘A Wager on History’: The Stolypin Agrarian Reforms as Process....Pages 149-173 The First World War and the Disintegration of Economic Spaces in Russia....Pages 174-193 Economic Relations Between Russia and Turkestan, 1914–18, or How to Start a Famine....Pages 194-209 The Soft Line on Agriculture: The Case of Narkomzem and its Specialists, 1921–27....Pages 210-237 Re-evaluating Stalin’s Peasant Policy in 1928–30....Pages 238-257 Back Matter....Pages 259-264 Understandably it is the social, political and cconomic upheavals in the former USSR and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe that have attracted the lion's share of attention from the academic community and the general public alike during the last decade. It is, however, also necessary to take note of the important linguistic changes that have accompanied these upheavals. Most of the papers in this volume deal with Russian which, as one of the languages exposed longest to 'Sovietization', has undergone a particularly complex process of readjustment. If it is still carly to draw definitive conclusions, each contribution from its own individual standpoint helps to provide a preliminary understanding of the new language situation of post-Soviet Russia. The remaining papers examine the Russian and Ukrainian languages, the position of Komi-Permiak, and ask fundamental questions about language and society. "Post-communist developments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union do not follow any predetermined pattern. The authors, all of whom are leading experts in their respective fields, analyse the diversity of the experience of democratisation in a number of different settings and contexts."--Jacket Edited By Sue Bridger. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.