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Was Russian Peasant Agriculture Really That Impoverished? New Evidence from a Case Study from the 'Impoverished Center' at the End of the Nineteenth Century
- Source :
- The Journal of Economic History. 43:137-144
- Publication Year :
- 1983
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1983.
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Abstract
- The mainstream of Russian historiographical studies holds that at the turn of the century peasant economic conditions were in a state of near collapse. In one of the poorest parts of the empire three measures of that economic impoverishment were seriously in error: draft animals were incompletely inventoried, and the meanings of both land leasing and fallow reductions were misinterpreted. These methodological errors have systematically distorted prevailing discussions about the wealth and poverty of peasant farms in Voronezh. Accumulating evidence is beginning to suggest reopening the question of the severity of the Russian “agrarian crisis” on the eve of the Revolution of 1917.
- Subjects :
- Economics and Econometrics
History
Poverty
business.industry
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Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Empire
Historiography
Peasant
Agrarian society
State (polity)
Agriculture
Political science
Development economics
Economic history
Mainstream
business
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14716372 and 00220507
- Volume :
- 43
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of Economic History
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7e03c5bc34226d2702c71ab158f08ffa