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Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays provides a rare in-depth look at peasant life in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European Russia. It is the first English-language text to deal extensively with peasant women and patriarchy; the role of magic, healing, and medicine in village life; communal economic innovation; rural poverty and labor migr
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*List of Illustrations, pg. vii*List of Maps and Figures, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xiii*Geographic Regions, pg. xvii*Breaking the Silence: An Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter 1. Peasant Communes and Economic Innovation: A Preliminary Inquiry, pg. 23*Chapter 2. The Social Control of Peasant Labor in Russia: The Response of Village Communities to Labor Migration in the Central Industrial Region, 1861-1905, pg. 52*Chapter 3. Peasant Poverty in Theory and Practice: A View from Russia's "Impoverished Center" at the End of the Nineteenth Centure, pg. 101*Chapter 4. Crises and the Condition of the Peasantry in Late Imperial Russia, pg. 128*Introduction, pg. 175*Chapter 5. Victims or Actors? Russian Peasant Women and Patriarchy, pg. 177*Chapter 6. Traditional Healers and Peasant Culture in Russia, 1861-1917, pg. 207*Introduction, pg. 233*Chapter 7. Everyday Forms of Resistance: Serf Opposition to Gentry Exactions, 1800-1861, pg. 236*Chapter 8. The Black and the Gold Seals: Popular Protests Against the Liquor Trade on the Eve of Emancipation, pg. 261*Chapter 9. The Hiring Market as Workers' Turf: Migrant Agricultural Laborers and the Mobilization of Collective Action in the Steppe Grainbelt of European Russia, 1853-1913, pg. 294*Chapter 10. Peasants and Politics: Peasant Unions During the 1905 Revolution, pg. 341*Chapter 11. Peasant Farmers and the Minority Groups of Rural Society: Peasant Egalitarianism and Village Social Relations During the Russian Revolution (1917-1921), pg. 378*Notes on Contributors, pg. 403*Glossary, pg. 407*Index, pg. 413
