Steven L. Hoch
Serfdom and Social Control in Russia
Petrovskoe, a Village in Tambov
The University of Chicago Press 1989
Stron X+220, format: 13,5x21 cm
Książka używana: na 152 stronach podkreślenia długopisem i różowym flamastrem, zagięte pierwsze dwie kartki, na stronie pierwszej wpis poprzed. właściciela.
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In this pathbreaking social history, Steven L. Hoch recreates life on a serf estate in nineteenth-century Russia. Hoch raises important questions about authority, work, and social structure by focusing on the household as the center of serf life. He reaches the significant yet startling conclusion that the heads of three-generation serf households had a vested interest in preserving serfdom.
"Hoch's welcome study of one serf village in central Russia [is] a sorely needed and significant contribution to the field. ... It is the first social history of the preemancipation peasantry in a non-Slavic language, providing a detailed and often fascinating look at the daily lives of Russian serfs during the first half of the nineteenth century. . . . This book includes an excellent analysis of the material and demographic foundations of patriarchal society, which will force historians to reevaluate the profitability of the estate economy and the standard of living among Russian serfs. . . . This is an important book which should be read by anyone interested in peasant studies and servile systems of production." —Stephen R Frank, Journal of Social History
"Serfdom and Social Control is the most interesting, even the most exciting, work I have ever read on the topic. Hoch's book is not just a brilliant presentation, synthesis, and analysis of his archival findings, but it is also well integrated with Russian language and other secondary literature on the preemancipation peasantry. A superb work." —Richard Hellie, author of Slavery in Russia and Enserfment and Military Change in Muscovy
"Hoch's book goes beyond simple historical documentation of serf life in Petrovskoe. Rather, Hoch grapples with the enticing sociological question: Why did serfs work and produce as the estate bailiffs desired. . . . Hoch is to be commended for his mastery of the techniques of social history and his painstaking attention to detail." —Thomas O. Cushman, Contemporary Sociology
"A welcome addition to the English-language literature on the Russian peasantry. . . . Hoch has shown how much more generally satisfying it is to research the Russian variant of serfdom by looking at the 'system' from the vantage point of its operation below the general legal categories."
—Andrejs Plakans, American Historical Review
Steven L. Hoch is assistant professor of history at the University of Iowa.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 The Material Base 15
2 The Demographic Framework 65
3 Bailiffs and Patriarchs: A Conjunction of Interests 91
4 Communal Functions and Control 133
5 Punishment, Fear, and Control 160
Conclusion 187
Abbreviations 191
Bibliography 193
Index 113
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