Peasant Dreams and Market Politics (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies) - Hardcover

Burds, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822940493 ISBN 13: 9780822940494

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998

Synopsis

This volume examines how peasant labour migration between village and town transformed rural life in the two generations before the Bolshevik revolution. He reconstructs the Russian village milieu to demonstrate the ways in which peasants exploited and suborned Russian institutions.

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Review:

"Burds has done prodigious work in archives and published sources; he has travelled to rural as well as urban archives, visited libraries and rural museums, and his book draws upon a wealth of new documentation and features wonderful illustrations. His data base is extraordinary rich, many of his anecdotes and examples are marvelous. . . . He explores little known and highly significant aspects of village life . . . and offers original interpretations of many key events, not the least of them the revolution of 1905." --Journal of Social History "This book is a profoundly original work on the Russian peasantry of the end of the nineteenth century. It replaces both the Soviet view (peasants become workers, full stop) and the Western view (peasants become workers, full stop) with a much more subtle one, in which village culture is treated seriously as an influence on peasant (and peasant-worker) consciousness." --Slavonic Review "Burds's book is essential reading for all those with interests in the peasantry and economic development." --Russian Review Burds has done prodigious work in archives and published sources; he has travelled to rural as well as urban archives, visited libraries and rural museums, and his book draws upon a wealth of new documentation and features wonderful illustrations. His data base is extraordinary rich, many of his anecdotes and examples are marvelous. . . . He explores little known and highly significant aspects of village life . . . and offers original interpretations of many key events, not the least of them the revolution of 1905. " Journal of Social History"" This book is a profoundly original work on the Russian peasantry of the end of the nineteenth century. It replaces both the Soviet view (peasants become workers, full stop) and the Western view (peasants become workers, full stop) with a much more subtle one, in which village culture is treated seriously as an influence on peasant (and peasant-worker) consciousness. " Slavonic Review"" Burds s book is essential reading for all those with interests in the peasantry and economic development. " Russian Review ""

About the Author:

Jeffrey Burds is associate professor of Russian and Soviet history and co-director of the Center for the Study of Russia and the Soviet Union at Northeastern University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0822940493
• ISBN 13: 9780822940494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 407