Land Commune and Peasant Community in Russia: Communal Forms in Imperial and Early Soviet Society

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Egalitarianism and the Commune....Pages 7-19
The Obshchina and the Village....Pages 20-35
Land Re-allotment in the Peasant Communes of Late-Feudal Russia....Pages 36-44
The Northern Commune: Archangel Province in the Late Nineteenth Century....Pages 45-65
Regional Variation in the Commune: The Case of Siberia....Pages 66-85
The Post-Emancipation Russian Peasant Commune in Orel Province, 1861–90....Pages 86-105
Landholding and Commune Origins among the Odnodvortsy....Pages 106-120
Landlords and the Mir: Transaction Costs and Economic Development in Pre-Emancipation Russia (Iaroslav Guberniia)....Pages 121-142
Stratification and the Russian Peasant Commune: A Statistical Enquiry....Pages 143-164
Differentiation in Russian Peasant Society: Causes and Trends, 1880–1905....Pages 165-195
The Peasant Commune and the Stolypin Reforms: Peasant Attitudes, 1906–14....Pages 196-218
The Russian Peasant Community in the Agrarian Revolution, 1917–18....Pages 219-236
The Final Stage of the Russian Peasant Commune: Its Improvement and the Strategy of Collectivisation....Pages 237-253
Communes with Communists: The sel’ sovety in the 1920s....Pages 254-271
The Commune in the Life of the Soviet Countryside before Collectivisation....Pages 272-286
Peasant Family Divisions and the Commune....Pages 287-302
Women and the Peasant Commune....Pages 303-320
Face to the Village: The Russian Teacher and the Peasant Community, 1880–1914....Pages 321-338
The Artel’ and the Beginnings of the Consumer Cooperative Movement in Russia....Pages 339-362
The Russian Soldiers’ Artel’, 1700–1900 A History and Interpretation....Pages 363-375
Administrative Exile and the Criminals’ Commune in Siberia....Pages 376-394
Back Matter....Pages 395-414
....Pages 415-435