From Peasant to Petersburger

by E. Economakis

Overview

This book analyzes the processes of proletarianization and urbanization undergone by the St. Petersburg industrial working class from its inception in the early nineteenth-century up until 1914. Attention is focused on the severing of workers' ties to the village and the land. To that end, the thesis examines local conditions in the sending areas and traces the history of factory work in the Russian capital by workers from different provinces.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312214975
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/14/1998
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

EVEL G. ECONOMAKIS is editor of a local newspaper in St Petersburg, Russia. He received his PhD in Russian history at Columbia University. He has taught at Boston University, the University of Toronto and Concordia University in Montreal. His articles have appeared in The Slavic Review, The Russian Review, The Slavonic and East European Review, The Journal of Family History and in Severo-Zapad V Agrarnoi Istorii Rossii.

Table of Contents

Preface
• Acknowledgments
• A Forgotten Source: The Census of 1864
• The Sending Areas: Basic Features of Early Labor Migration to St. Petersburg
• Peasant of Ties the Sending Areas
• Severing of Ties to the Land
• Urbanization in St. Petersburg
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index