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Peasant dreams & market politics : labor migration and the Russian village, 1861-1905 / Jeffrey Burds.

Author/creator Burds, Jeffrey
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoPittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1998.
Descriptionxiv, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Variant title Peasant dreams and market politics
Variant title Labor migration and the Russian village, 1861-1905
Series Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Series in Russian and East European studies. ^A160079
Contents The politics of reputation: toward an anthropology of the personal -- Emancipation, interregnum, and rural crisis -- The roots of ambivalence: peasant labor migration as a threat to village security -- In defense of peasant patriarchalism: institutional responses to peasant labor migration -- Autocratic authority and the peasant "little community": state agents, village officials, and community opinion -- The social control of peasant labor: the alliance of family and community -- The sociology of class: peasant communes and market brokers -- The logic of solidarity: migrants and villagers -- Legacies: Otkhod and Russian popular culture -- A culture of acquisition: the genesis of mass consumer culture in rural Russia -- A culture of denunciation: patterns of religious anathematization in rural Russia.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-306) and index.
LCCN 97033876
ISBN0822940493
ISBN0822956551 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks HD1536.R9 B848 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold