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Making Peasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia, 1861-1914
Author(s): Yanni Kotsonis (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: September 11, 1999
- Language: English
- Print length: 245 pages
- ISBN-10: 0312220995
- ISBN-13: 9780312220990
Book Description
In this first monograph on the Russian cooperative movement before 1914, economic and social change is considered alongside Russian political culture. Looking at such historical actors as Sergei Witte, Piotr Stolypin, and Alexander Chaianov, and tapping into several newly opened Russian local and state archives on peasant practice in the movement, Yanni Kotsonis suggests how cooperatives reflected a pan-European dilemma over the extent to which populations can participate in their own transformation.
