Using a wealth of materials from provincial and local archives across Russia, Yanni Kotsonis examines how taxation was simultaneously a revenue-raising and a state-building tool, a claim on the person and a way to produce a new kind of citizenship. During successive political, wartime, and revolutionary crises between 1855 and 1928, state fiscal power was used to forge social and financial unity and fairness and a direct relationship with individual Russians. State power eventually overwhelmed both the private sector economy and the fragile realm of personal privacy. States of Obligation is at once a study in Russian economic history and a reflection on the modern state and the modern citizen.
Using a wealth of materials from provincial and local archives across Russia, Yanni Kotsonis examines how taxation was simultaneously a revenue-raising and a state-building tool, a claim on the person and a way to produce a new kind of citizenship. During successive political, wartime, and revolutionary crises between 1855 and 1928, state fiscal power was used to forge social and financial unity and fairness and a direct relationship with individual Russians. State power eventually overwhelmed both the private sector economy and the fragile realm of personal privacy. States of Obligation is at once a study in Russian economic history and a reflection on the modern state and the modern citizen.
States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic
504States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic
504Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781442643543 |
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Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
Publication date: | 09/30/2014 |
Pages: | 504 |
Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 9.28(h) x 1.36(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |