Since the collapse of the USSR there has been a growing interest in the Stolypin Land Reform as a possible model for post-Communist agrarian development. Using recent theoretical and empirical advances in Anglo-American research, Dr Pallot examines how peasants throughout Russia received, interpreted, and acted upon the government's attempts to persuade them to quit the commune and set up independent farms.
| List of Plates | ||
| List of Figures | ||
| List of Tables | ||
| A Note on Archives | ||
| Glossary of Terms | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | The Land Reform as Administrative Utopia | 31 |
| 3 | Open Fields, Scattered Strips, and Repartitions | 69 |
| 4 | Free Riders and Village-Wide Consolidations | 95 |
| 5 | 'The Government is for us, Otrubniki' | 127 |
| 6 | Everyday Forms of Resistance to the Stolypin Reform | 156 |
| 7 | Peasant Modification and Adaptation of the Reform | 189 |
| 8 | Farming in the Immediate Post-Enclosure Years | 219 |
| Conclusion | 248 | |
| Index | 253 |
Overview
Since the collapse of the USSR there has been a growing interest in the Stolypin Land Reform as a possible model for post-Communist agrarian development. Using recent theoretical and empirical advances in Anglo-American research, Dr Pallot examines how peasants throughout Russia received, interpreted, and acted upon the government's attempts to persuade them to quit the commune and set up independent farms.