Russia on the move : railroads and the exodus from compulsory collectivism, 1861-1914

Russia on the move : railroads and the exodus from compulsory collectivism, 1861-1914 / Sylvia Sztern.

This book explores the impact of railroads on 19thcentury Russian peasant collectivism. The mutual-insurance mechanism in a precarious agricultural environment, provided bya structured communal-village system predicated on the reputation and authorityof community norms,is exposed to rationalist exch...

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Main Author: Sztern, Sylvia (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:Studies in economic transition.
Subjects:
Railroads > Economic aspects > Russia > History.
Railroads > Political aspects > Russia > History.
Collectivization of agriculture > Russia > History.
Peasants > Russia > Social conditions.
Collectivization of agriculture
Peasants > Social conditions
Railroads > Economic aspects
Railroads > Political aspects
Russia
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Russia on the Move: Railroads and the Exodus from Compulsory Collectivism, 18611914
  • 2. From Hierarchy to Egalitarianism: From Gerschenkron to GregoryDeduction and Induction from NIE/AEI Complementarity and the Regulationist Model
  • 3. Through the Lenses of Theory: New Institutional Economics and American Evolutionary Institutionalism Railroads, Specialization, and Democracy in Late Tsarist Russia
  • 4. Industrialization as a Precipitant of Tensions Between Tsardom and Nascent Civil Society
  • 5. Peasantry and Land in Industrializing Late Tsarist Russia
  • 6. The Railroads and the Metamorphoses of the Mir: Westernizer and Slavophile Conceptions Revisited
  • 7. Secularization and Pious Subversion: To the Constitution by Rail
  • 8. From Janus to Janus: Peter I, Nicholas II, and Industrialization
  • 9. Was Stalin Necessary? Railroads and the Crumbling of the Obshchina in Tsarist Russia
  • 10. Individualism and Collectivism: Measuring the Transition to Modernity in Tsarist Russian Peasant Society, Penza Province, 1913
  • 11. Measurable Power: Railroads, Literacy, and the Crafts ArtelHierarchy in Disarray in Late Imperial Russia
  • 12. Epilogue.

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