Rural unrest during the first Russian Revolution : Kursk Province, 1905-1906 /
This narrative of peasant unrest in Russia during 1905-1906 combines a chronology of incidents drawn from official documents, offering a close analysis of the villages associated with the disorders, based upon detailed census materials compiled by local specialists. This analysis concentrates on a s...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English Russian |
| Imprint: | Budapest : Central European University Press, 2013 |
| Series: | Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ;
v. 1. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | This narrative of peasant unrest in Russia during 1905-1906 combines a chronology of incidents drawn from official documents, offering a close analysis of the villages associated with the disorders, based upon detailed census materials compiled by local specialists. This analysis concentrates on a single province: Kursk Oblast, bordering Ukraine. In place of the general surveys of the revolution that dominate the literature, the author focuses on local events and the rural populations that participated in them. The narrative of peasant unrest in Russia during 1905-1906 combines a chronology of incidents drawn from official documents, with close analysis of the villages associated with the disorders based upon detailed census materials compiled by local specialists. The analysis concentrates on a single province: Kursk Oblast, bordering the now independent Ukraine. In place of the general surveys of the revolution that dominate the literature, Miller focuses on local events and the rural populations that participated in them.Documents the degree to which the peasant community had been pushed onto the path of change by the end of the nineteenth century, how much the "peasantry" itself had become increasingly heterogeneous in outlook and occupation, and the rapidity with which these processes had begun to corrode the legitimacy of the older order. Miller concludes that unrest was concentrated mostly among peasant communities for whom the benefits the vital interactions between social unequals that had maintained a fragile social peace in the countryside had been radically eroded; he furthermore identifies the prominent role played by that spectrum of persons that retained their ties to their villages, but stood toward the margins of rural life. |
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| Item Description: | Print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 6155225508 9786155225505 |
| Author Notes: | Burton Richard Miller is a research analyst living in New York. |