Publication

Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime

Williams, Stephen F

2006

Overview

Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Reform from Above -- Stolypin: the Man behind the Reforms -- This Book's Goals -- Chapter 1 - Creating Private Property, Dispersing Power -- The Gist of the Reforms -- Liberal Democracy -- Property Rights, Civil Society, and Liberal Democracy -- Transitions to Liberal Democracy -- Liberalizing Property Rights in Tsarist Russia -- Chapter 2 - The Property Rights to Be Reformed -- Open Fields -- Repartition -- Family v. Individual Tenure -- The Costs of Open Fields, Repartition, and Family Ownership -- Post-Emancipation Limits on Exit, Sale, or Exchange -- Rule Changes on the Eve of the Stolypin Reforms -- Sociology of the Commune -- Attitudes Toward Law, Property, and Individual Achievement -- Chapter 3 - Peasant Conditions on the Eve of Reform -- Trends in Agricultural Productivity Per Capita -- Peasant Landholdings -- Peasant and Pomeshchik Productivity -- Land and Grain Prices -- the Peasant Land Bank -- Tax Burdens -- A Glimpse of Peasant Life -- Chapter 4 - The Politics of Reform -- Composition of the First Duma -- The Pomeshchiki -- The SRs, the Trudoviki and Other Peasant Representatives -- The Kadets -- Use of Article 87 -- Collateral Reforms -- Chapter 5 - Overview of the Reforms -- Reform Provisions: a Rough Cut -- The Results of the Reforms -- The Flow of Applications Over Time -- Regional Variation -- Variations in Size of Holdings Converted or Consolidated -- Chapter 6 - Purposes and Pressure: Issues of Reform Design -- Red Herrings -- ''Administrative pressure'' -- Biases in Favor of Title Conversion and Consolidation -- Title Conversion as an Impediment to Consolidation -- Government Insistence on Form of Consolidation -- Shortfalls in the Rights Granted -- Chapter 7 - The Long-Term Implications.

• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Subject: Land reform / Land reform -- Russia -- History -- 20th century / Peasants / Peasants -- Russia -- History -- 20th century / Right of property / Right of property -- Russia -- History -- 20th century / Stolypin, Petr Arkad'evich, -- 1862-1911 / Stolypin, Petr Arkadʹevich
• ISBN: 081794723X, 9780817947231