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Peasant Dreams and Market Politics: Labor Migration and the Russian Village, 1861–1905

by Jeffrey Burds

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998
Paper: 978-0-8229-5655-6 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-7499-4
Library of Congress Classification HD1536.R9B848 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.563309470903

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Examines how peasant migration—the movement of males to cities for wage labor—affected villages before the Bolshevik revolution. New Russian sources are utilized.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Jeffrey Burds is associate professor of Russian and Soviet history and co-director of the Center for the Study of Russia and the Soviet Union at Northeastern University.

REVIEWS

“Burds’s book is essential reading for all those with interests in the peasantry and economic development.”
—Russian Review

“This book is a profoundly original work on the Russian peasantry of the end of the nineteenth century. It replaces both the Soviet view (peasants become workers, full stop) and the Western view (peasants become workers, full stop) with a much more subtle one, in which village culture is treated seriously as an influence on peasant (and peasant-worker) consciousness.”
—Slavonic Review

“Burds has done prodigious work in archives and published sources; he has travelled to rural as well as urban archives, visited libraries and rural museums, and his book draws upon a wealth of new documentation and features wonderful illustrations. His data base is extraordinary rich, many of his anecdotes and examples are marvelous. . . . He explores little known and highly significant aspects of village life . . . and offers original interpretations of many key events, not the least of them the revolution of 1905.”
—Journal of Social History

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Preface

The Politics of Reputation: Toward an Anthropology of the Personal

Part I: Emancipation, Interregnum, and Rural Crisis

1. The Roots of Ambivalence: Peasant Labor Migration as a Threat to Village Security

Part II: In Defense of Peasant Patriarchalism: Institutional Responses to Peasant Labor Migration

2. Autocratic Authority and the Peasant "Little Community": State Agents, Village Officials, and Community Opinion

3. The Social Control of Peasant Labor: The Alliance of Family and Community

4. The Sociology of Class: Peasant Communes and Market Brokers

5. The Logic of Solidarity: Migrants and Villagers

Part III: Legacies: Otkhod and Russian Popular Culture

6. A Culture of Acquisition: The Genesis of Mass Consumer Culture in Rural Russia

7. A Culture of Denunciation: Patterns of Religious Anathematization in Rural Russia

Appendix

Abbreviations

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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