The Economics of the Russian Village

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Isaac A. Hourwich. The Economics of the Russian Village

The Economics of the Russian Village

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INTRODUCTION. THE RISE OF “PEASANTISM.”

CHAPTER I. GENERAL SKETCH OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANDHOLDING IN RUSSIA

CHAPTER II. COMMUNITY OF LAND

CHAPTER III. THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES OF THE PEASANTRY

CHAPTER IV. TAXATION OF THE PEASANT

CHAPTER V. COMMUNAL TENURE AND SMALL HOLDINGS

CHAPTER VI. THE EVOLUTION OF THE FARMER INTO THE AGRICULTURAL LABORER

CHAPTER VII. THE WAGES IN THE RURAL DISTRICTS

CHAPTER VIII. THE RURAL SURPLUS POPULATION

CHAPTER IX. THE DISSOLUTION OF THE PATRIARCHAL FAMILY

CHAPTER X. THE MODERN AGRICULTURAL CLASSES

CHAPTER XI. INDIVIDUAL OWNERSHIP AND AGRARIAN COMMUNISM

CHAPTER XII. THE REDIVISION OF THE COMMUNAL LAND

NOTE TO CHAPTER XII., THE “INALIENABILITY” SCHEME

CHAPTER XIII. AGRICULTURE ON A LARGE SCALE

CHAPTER XIV. CONCLUSION: THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FAMINE

APPENDICES. STATISTICAL TABLES

TABLE I.—Distribution of Land Among the Several Sections of the Peasant Population

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TABLE II.—Taxation of the Peasantry

TABLE III.—Arrears in Taxes

TABLE IV.—Distribution of Rented Land

TABLE V. BUDGETS OF TYPICAL PEASANT HOUSEHOLDS

I. Gabriel Michea’s (son) Trupoff, village Sukmanka, bailiwick (volost) Sukmanka

II. Kosma Abramoff, village Michaïlovka, bailiwick Nicholo-Kabañ yevskaya

III. Capiton Popoff, village Pavlovka, bailiwick Pavlodarovka

TABLE VI.—Wages of the Peasant in Industrial Employment

TABLE VII.—Average Yields of Wheat (District of Voronezh)

FOOTNOTES

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THE Economic Review

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Systematic Political Science. BY THE. UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE OF. COLUMBIA COLLEGE

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Isaac A. Hourwich

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Moreover, an old Russian family greatly resembled a community even in the number of its members. Mr. Krasnoperoff, in a paper which appeared some ten years ago in the Otechestvenniya Zapiski, described a family he met with in the province of Mohileff. The family numbered ninety-nine members, and was composed of a grandmother, with her children and married grandchildren, all of whom were living together and working for their own common benefit. Such households are, indeed, isolated exceptions at the present day, but they were universal in the past.

Thus ownership of land by the community without, and complete communism within the family, were the fundamental elements in the structure of the village at the dawn of Russian history.

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