Table Of ContentSELECTED PAPERS FROM THE FIFTH WORLD CONGRESS OF
CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES, WARSAW, 1995
Edited for the International Council for Central and East European
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HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS ON CENTRAL EUROPE
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ETHNIC AND NATIONAL ISSUES IN RUSSIAN AND EAST
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TRANSFORMING PEASANTS
Society, State and the Peasantry, 1861-1930
Richard Sakwa (editor)
THE EXPERIENCE OF DEMOCRATIZATION IN EASTERN
EUROPE
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TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE
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Transforming Peasants
Society, State and the Peasantry, 1861-1930
Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of
Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995
Edited by
Judith Pallot
Christ Church
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Transforming peasants: society, state and the peasantry, 1861-1930
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Contents
List of Tables vii
List of Figures ix
General Editor's Introduction xi
Acknowledgements xv
Notes on the Contributors xvii
Introduction
Judith Pallot
Part I Social Constructions and Transformations
1. How Peasants Became Backward: Agrarian Policy and
Co-operatives in Russia, 1905-14 15
Yanni Kotsonis
2. Exhibiting Kustar' Industry in Late Imperial Russia!
Exhibiting Late Imperial Russia in Kustar' Industry 37
Lewis H. Siegelbaum
3. Tracking Social Change Through Sport Hunting 64
Louise McReynolds
4. The Moral Community and Peasant Nationalism in
Nineteenth-century Poland 73
Keely Stauter-Halsted
5. Revolution and Grassroots Re-evaluations of Russian
Orthodoxy: Parish Clergy and Peasants of Voronezh
Province, 1905-17 90
Chris J. Chulos
6. The 'Peasantisation' of the Soviet Working Class: Peasant
Migration's Ebb and Flow, 1917-32 113
David L. Hoffmann
7. Ukrainian Settlement Patterns in the Kirgiz Steppe Before
1917: Ukrainian Colonies or Russian Integration? 130
fhor Stebelsky
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vi Transforming Peasants
Part II Policy Implications and Peasant Responses
8. 'A Wager on History': The Stolypin Agrarian Reforms
as Process 149
David A. J. Macey
9. The First World War and the Disintegration of Economic
Spaces in Russia 174
Alessandro Stanziani
10. Economic Relations Between Russia and Turkestan,
1914-18, or How to Start a Famine 194
Marco Buttino
11. The Soft Line on Agriculture: The Case of Narkomzem and
its Specialists, 1921-27 210
Markus Wehner
12. Re-evaluating Stalin's Peasant Policy in 1928-30 238
James Hughes
Index 259
List of Tables
7.1 Ukrainians in the Kirgiz Steppe, 1897 141
7.2 Ukrainians in the Kirgiz Steppe, 1917 142
7.3 Ukrainans and Russians in Akmolinsk oblast', 1913 143
7.4 Migration origin and nationality of households in nine typical
settlements of Akmolinsk oblast', 1910 143
7.5 Ukrainian composition of rural settlements in the Kirgiz Steppe 144
7.6 Ukrainian composition of rural settlements with Ukrainian
presence 145
8.1 Total number of households applying for all forms of land
reorganisation, 1907-15 163
8.2 Total number of land reorganisation projects executed,
1907-15 164
8.3 Total number of applications for 'separation to one place',
1907-15 165
8.4 Total area of land covered by plans for land reorganisation
work, 1908-14 165
Vll
List of Figures
10.1 Cotton production in Turkestan and the Fergana Valley,
1908-20 (thousandpudy) 195
10.2 Area sown to cotton and to other crops in Fergana,
1908-20 (thousand desyatiny) 196
10.3 Area sown to cotton and to other crops in Turkestan,
1908-20 (thousand desyatiny) 196
10.4 Surpluses and deficits of grain by region in 1913
(thousandpudy) 199
10.5 Rail shipments of grain to Fergana, July 1917-May 1918
(thousand pudy) 201
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