Russia on the Move: Railroads and the Exodus from Compulsory Collectivism, 1861–1914 by Sylvia Sztern
English | EPUB | 2022 | 539 Pages | ISBN : 3030892840 | 12 MB
This book explores the impact of railroads on 19thcentury Russian peasant collectivism. The mutual-insurance mechanism in a precarious agricultural environment, provided bya structured communal-village system predicated on the reputation and authorityof community norms,is exposed to rationalist exchange—occasioning an institutional adaptation process:the individualization of property rights in land.