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Peasant farming in Muscovy /

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Peasant farming in Muscovy /

[Book]

R.E.F. Smith.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

1977.

1 online resource (xii, 289 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates) :

illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. The elements of the peasant household -- pt. 2. Regions.

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This comprehensive study of farming methods and agrarian organization in Russia before the time of Peter the Great shifts the emphasis from the great estates to the basic production unit, the peasant family farms, and uses archaeological and enthnographic materials to supplement the documentary evidence. The methods of production and the farm implements used are described in detail and Professor Smith argues that features inherent in peasant farming account for Russian backwardness during this period. Part I classifies and describes the range of agrarian activities carried on in Muscovy - arable farming, hayfields, livestock, and gathering from the forest - and presents a model of a hypothetical farm unit; Part II examines three regions -Moscow, Toropets and Kazan - which stretch across central European Russia; and Part III provides a chapter on the relationship between peasant farming and the state.

Peasant farming in Muscovy.

Agriculture-- Soviet Union-- History.

Peasants-- Soviet Union-- History.

Agriculture.

Peasants.

Rural conditions.

Soviet Union, Rural conditions.

Soviet Union.

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Smith, R. E. F., (Robert E. F.)

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