Rural Unrest during the First Russian Revolution: Kursk Province, 1905-1906: 01 (Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia) - Hardcover

Miller, Burton Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 6155225176 ISBN 13: 9786155225178

Verlag: Central European University Press, 2013

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This 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. The volume 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. The author matches sites of unrest with materials relating to their socio-economic character, which constitutes to a unique methodological innovation. Miller concludes that unrest was concentrated mostly among peasant communities for whom the benefits of 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 on the margins of rural life.

Biografía del autor:

Miller is research analyst living in New York

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• Verlag: Central European University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 6155225176
• ISBN 13: 9786155225178
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 466