Ruling Peasants

ISBN-13: 9780875803708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 281 str.

Corinne Gaudin

Opis

Who ruled the countryside in late Imperial Russia? On the rare occasions that tsarist administrators dared pose the question so boldly, their discouraged answer was that peasants ruled. This title challenges this dominant paradigm of the closed village by investigating the ways peasants engaged tsarist laws and the local institutions.