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The Economics of the Russian Village
Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich
Behind the Russian peasant stood the mir, the village commune that held the land in common. Hourwich examines how landholding, communal tenure, taxation, and the peasantry's productive forces shaped rural Russia. A rigorous economic study of a world on the edge of upheaval. Understand the village that carried, and strained under, an empire.
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40 chapters
- 1THE ECONOMICS OF THE RUSSIAN VILLAGE.
- 2TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- 3INTRODUCTION. THE RISE OF “PEASANTISM.”
- 4CHAPTER I. GENERAL SKETCH OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANDHOLDING IN RUSSIA.
- 5CHAPTER II. COMMUNITY OF LAND.
- 6CHAPTER III. THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES OF THE PEASANTRY.
- 7CHAPTER IV. TAXATION OF THE PEASANT.
- 8CHAPTER V. COMMUNAL TENURE AND SMALL HOLDINGS.
- 9CHAPTER VI. THE EVOLUTION OF THE FARMER INTO THE AGRICULTURAL LABORER.
- 10CHAPTER VII. THE WAGES IN THE RURAL DISTRICTS.
- 11CHAPTER VIII. THE RURAL SURPLUS POPULATION.
- 12CHAPTER IX. THE DISSOLUTION OF THE PATRIARCHAL FAMILY.
- 13CHAPTER X. THE MODERN AGRICULTURAL CLASSES.
- 14CHAPTER XI. INDIVIDUAL OWNERSHIP AND AGRARIAN COMMUNISM.
- 15CHAPTER XII. THE REDIVISION OF THE COMMUNAL LAND.
- 16NOTE TO CHAPTER XII., THE “INALIENABILITY” SCHEME.
- 17CHAPTER XIII. AGRICULTURE ON A LARGE SCALE.
- 18CHAPTER XIV. CONCLUSION: THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FAMINE.
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