TY - BOOK ID - 36750013 TI - The institutional framework of Russian serfdom PY - 2011 SN - 0521194482 1107661706 1139075659 9786613112507 1139082485 1139077910 1139069896 0511974949 1283112507 1139080202 1139063367 1107214378 9781139077910 9781139082488 9781139080200 661311250X 9780521194488 9781139063364 9781107214378 9781283112505 9781139075657 9780511974946 9781139069892 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Serfdom KW - Peasants KW - Land tenure KW - Right of property KW - Agriculture KW - History. KW - Economic conditions. KW - Social conditions. KW - Economic aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Russia KW - Rural conditions. KW - Economic conditions KW - Commerce KW - Farming KW - Husbandry KW - Industrial arts KW - Life sciences KW - Food supply KW - Land use, Rural KW - Ownership of property KW - Private ownership of property, Right of KW - Private property, Right of KW - Property, Right of KW - Property rights KW - Right of private ownership of property KW - Right of private property KW - Right to property KW - Civil rights KW - Property KW - Peasantry KW - Agricultural laborers KW - Rural population KW - Marks (Medieval land tenure) KW - Villeinage KW - Law and legislation KW - Russie KW - Rossīi︠a︡ KW - Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ KW - Russia (Provisional government, 1917) KW - Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) KW - Russland KW - Ṛusastan KW - Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) KW - Russian Empire KW - Rosja KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) KW - Soviet Union KW - Social conditions KW - Economic aspects&delete& KW - Social aspects&delete& KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:36750013 AB - Russian rural history has long been based on a 'Peasant Myth', originating with nineteenth-century Romantics and still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows how Russian society looked from below, and finds nothing like the collective, redistributive and market-averse behaviour often attributed to Russian peasants. On the contrary, the Russian rural population was as integrated into regional and even national markets as many of its west European counterparts. Serfdom was a loose garment that enabled different landlords to shape economic institutions, especially property rights, in widely diverse ways. Highly coercive and backward regimes on some landlords' estates existed side-by-side with surprisingly liberal approximations to a rule of law. This book paints a vivid and colourful picture of the everyday reality of rural Russia before the 1861 abolition of serfdom. ER -