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Rural Unrest during the First Russian Revolution

Miller, Burton Richard

2013

Overview

The narrative of peasant unrest in Russia during 1905-1906 combines a chronology of incidents drawn from official documents, with close analysis of the villages associated with the disorders based upon detailed census materials compiled by local specialists. The analysis concentrates on a single province: Kursk Oblast, bordering the now independent Ukraine. In place of the general surveys of the revolution that dominate the literature, Miller focuses on local events and the rural populations that participated in them. Documents the degree to which the peasant community had been pushed onto the path of change by the end of the nineteenth century, how much the \"peasantry\" itself had become increasingly heterogeneous in outlook and occupation, and the rapidity with which these processes had begun to corrode the legitimacy of the older order. Miller concludes that unrest was concentrated mostly among peasant communities for whom the benefits the vital interactions between social unequals that had maintained a fragile social peace in the countryside had been radically eroded; he furthermore identifies the prominent role played by that spectrum of persons that retained their ties to their villages, but stood toward the margins of rural life.

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press,Central European University Press,CEU Press
• Subject: 20th century / Active / Agriculture / CEU Press / Europe / General history of Europe Eastern Europe Soviet Union / Government, Resistance to / Government, Resistance to -- Russia (Federation) -- Kurskai︠a︡ oblastʹ -- History -- 20th century / Government, Resistance to-Russia (Federation)-Kurskaia oblast-History-20th century / HISTORY / HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union / Kurskaia oblast / Kurskaia oblast (Russia)-History-20th century / Kurskaia oblast (Russia)-Rural conditions / Kurskaia oblast’ (Russia) / Kurskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia) -- History -- 20th century / Kurskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia) -- Rural conditions / Niet accessible / Peasants / Peasants -- Russia (Federation) -- Kurskai︠a︡ oblastʹ -- History -- 20th century / Peasants-Russia (Federation)-Kurskaia oblast-History-20th century / Revolution, 1905-1907 / Revolutions / Rural conditions / Russia / Russia & the Former Soviet Union / Russia (Federation) / Russia -- History -- Revolution, 1905-1907 -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation) -- Kurskai︠a︡ oblastʹ / Russia-History-Revolution, 1905-1907-Social aspects-Russia (Federation)-Kurskaia oblast / Social and Political Sciences / Social aspects / Social change / Social change -- Russia (Federation) -- Kurskai︠a︡ oblastʹ -- History -- 20th century / Social change-Russia (Federation)-Kurskaia oblast-History-20th century / Social conflict / Social conflict -- Russia (Federation) -- Kurskai︠a︡ oblastʹ -- History -- 20th century / Social conflict-Russia (Federation)-Kurskaia oblast-History-20th century / Villages / Villages -- Russia (Federation) -- Kurskai︠a︡ oblastʹ -- History -- 20th century / Villages-Russia (Federation)-Kurskaia oblast-History-20th century / War, Conflict and Genocide Studies
• ISBN: 6155225176, 9786155225178, 6155225508, 9786155225505