Transforming Peasants: Society, State and the Peasantry, 1861–1930

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
How Peasants Became Backward: Agrarian Policy and Co-operatives in Russia, 1905–14....Pages 15-36
Exhibiting Kustar’ Industry in Late Imperial Russia/Exhibiting Late Imperial Russia in Kustar’ Industry....Pages 37-63
Tracking Social Change Through Sport Hunting....Pages 64-72
The Moral Community and Peasant Nationalism in Nineteenth-century Poland....Pages 73-89
Revolution and Grassroots Re-evaluations of Russian Orthodoxy: Parish Clergy and Peasants of Voronezh Province, 1905–17....Pages 90-112
The ‘Peasantisation’ of the Soviet Working Class: Peasant Migration’s Ebb and Flow, 1917–32....Pages 113-129
Ukrainian Settlement Patterns in the Kirgiz Steppe Before 1917: Ukrainian Colonies or Russian Integration?....Pages 130-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
‘A Wager on History’: The Stolypin Agrarian Reforms as Process....Pages 149-173
The First World War and the Disintegration of Economic Spaces in Russia....Pages 174-193
Economic Relations Between Russia and Turkestan, 1914–18, or How to Start a Famine....Pages 194-209
The Soft Line on Agriculture: The Case of Narkomzem and its Specialists, 1921–27....Pages 210-237
Re-evaluating Stalin’s Peasant Policy in 1928–30....Pages 238-257
Back Matter....Pages 259-264