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- Rural Unrest during the First Russian Revolution: Kursk Province, 1905-1906
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Central European University Press
- Series: Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. 4
- Copyright Page
- pp. 5-7
- List of Maps, Tables and Figures
- pp. ix-11
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-51
- III. Rural Disorders in Spring–Summer 1906
- pp. 187-224
- V. The Villages That Revolted
- pp. 289-338
- Conclusion
- pp. 339-354
- Appendix B: Villages Listing
- pp. 365-383
- Abbreviations
- pp. 385-386
- Sources and Literature
- pp. 389-427
- Back Cover
- p. 466
Additional Information
ISBN
9786155225505
Related ISBN(s)
9786155225178
MARC Record
OCLC
838128581
Pages
464
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No