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Peasant Land and Peasant Society in Late Imperial Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

H. S. Vasudevan
H. S. Vasudevan
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Calcutta University
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The Historical Journal , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , March 1988 , pp. 207 - 222
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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1 The best account available to-date is Robinson, G. T., Rural Russia under the old regime (New York, 1932)Google Scholar. The work of pre-Revolutionary scholars and social activists (K. R. Kachorovskii, V. P. Vorontsov and P. P. Maslov especially) is still of great use. But it is polemical in nature and often based on very limited evidence. Some of this literature is dealt with in Atkinson, D., The end of the Russian land commune, 1905–1930 (Stanford, 1983)Google Scholar.

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3 Shanin, T., The awkward class (Oxford, 1972)Google Scholar, contains an excellent assessment of the literature on differentiation. There is no major account to date of the influence of independent peasant proprietors and traders on the life of the village.

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