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The New History of the Russian Peasantry
Author(s) -
Cox Terry
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of agrarian change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.63
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1471-0366
pISSN - 1471-0358
DOI - 10.1111/1471-0366.00046
Subject(s) - peasant , agrarian society , ideology , scholarship , period (music) , state (computer science) , sociology , marxist philosophy , political science , political economy , economic history , history , politics , law , agriculture , archaeology , aesthetics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
Books reviewed in this article: Stephen Frank, Crime, Cultural Conflict and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856–1914 Judith Pallot, Land Reform in Russia 1906–1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin’s Project of Rural Transformation Yanni Kotsonis, Making Peasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia, 1861–1914 David Moon, The Russian Peasantry 1600–1930: The World the Peasants Made Judith Pallot (ed.), Transforming Peasants: Society, State and the Peasantry, 1861–1930 Since the end of the 1970s, there has been an upsurge in writing on the Russian peasantry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and some of the most recent examples are discussed here. The work is characterized by its richness of new information and an extension of scholarship into new aspects of peasant economy, society and culture of the period. Much of this new work avoids detailed theorizing, presenting itself as a more grounded and complex understanding than provided by earlier, ‘ideologically driven’ Marxist and neo–populist approaches, while at the same time drawing on concepts introduced by J.C. Scott and others. This essay offers an account of this body of research and explores its implications for an understanding of the period in terms of class analysis and capitalist development.