Land Reform in Russia, 1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin's Project of Rural Transformation

by Judith Pallot

Overview

Since the collapse of the USSR there has been a growing interest in the Stolypin Land Reform as a possible model for post-Communist agrarian development. Using recent theoretical and empirical advances in Anglo-American research, Dr Pallot examines how peasants throughout Russia received, interpreted, and acted upon the government's attempts to persuade them to quit the commune and set up independent farms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198206569
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/29/1999
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1790L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Oxford

Table of Contents

IntroductionThe Land Reform as Administrative UtopiaOpen Fields, Scattered Strips, and RepartitionsFree Riders and Village-Wide ConsolidationsThe Government in for us, OtrubnikiEveryday Forms of Resistance to the Stolypin ReformPeasant Modification and Adaptation of the ReformFarming in the Immediate Post-Enclosure YearsConclusion

Editorial Reviews

"Pallott has provided a convincing new perspective assessing the impact of the Stolypin land reform project on rural Russia and explaining why the reform failed to alter significantly the key aspects of Imperial Russian peasant society."—The Historian

"Pallot has brought a different emphasis to her study of the great land reform...Pallot has approached her study from the vantage point of the peasantry...[Her] reputation as a noted scholar of Russian peasant studies is reaffirmed in this monograph...This work meets the highest scholarly standards...[A]n important contribution to our understanding of the efficaciousness of the Stolypin reform in attempting to bring about change in the peasant husbandry of late imperial Russia...[S]he has added to our understanding of one of the great administrative reforms in modern European history and tsarist Russia in particular. I strongly recommend this monograph to scholars of this period and to anyone interested in fathoming the process of modernization in a traditional society..."—Slavic Review

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