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Ruling Peasants

Village and State in Late Imperial Russia

Ruling Peasants( )
Author: Gaudin, Corinne
ISBN:978-0-87580-370-8
Publication Date:Feb 2007
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $95.00
Book Description:

Who ruled the countryside in late Imperial Russia? On the rare occasions that tsarist administrators dared pose the question so boldly, they reluctantly answered that the peasants ruled. Historians have largely echoed this assessment, pointing to the state's failure to penetrate rural society as a key reason for the tsarist government's collapse. Ruling Peasants challenges this dominant paradigm of the closed village by investigating the ways peasants...
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Book Details
Pages:281
Detailed Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
Social Science / Sociology / Rural
History / Russia / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 x 2.54 cm
Book Weight:0.909 Kilograms



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