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Book SynopsisAn examination of how land became a measured entitlement in Russia.
Trade Review"Well-written, with hints of grace, wit, and wry humour, Tsardom of Sufficiency, Empire of Norms is an impressive work that delivers new insights on its subject and much food for thought besides. Darrow succeeds in getting readers to think seriously about the meaning of the presumed relationships between words and facts and how these presumptions mattered in shaping Russian political thought and economic life." Willard Sunderland, University of Cincinnati
"Tsardom of Sufficiency, Empire of Norms is an important book that will be of lasting relevance. It is a clear-headed study of a basic and understudied category in Russian and world history, human sufficiency, viewed through an institution and a measure called the nadel – a specific allotment of land. The entire agrarian system was built on it. It is of immediate relevance to anyone in the Russian field, anyone interested in agrarian development, and anyone interested in the origins of the modern state's responsibility for the welfare of its subjects and citizens." Yanni Kotsonis, New York University
