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Serfdom and Social Control in Russia: Petrovskoe, a Village in Tambov
Book by Hoch, Stephen L.
230 pages, Paperback
First published January 15, 1989
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December 28, 2020
A sound and largely quantitative analysis of village life in late Imperial Russia. The lack of ethnographic literature impedes and largely invalidates the qualitative insights on the peasant's lives, which the author describes as grim, miserable, and lacking culture (in the anthropological sense).
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