Peasant Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia...
Kingston-Mann, Esther / Mixter, Timothy
This collection of original essays provides a rare in-depth look at peasant life in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European Russia. It is the first English-language text to deal extensively with peasant women and patriarchy, the role of magic, healing, and medicine in village life, communal economic innovation, rural poverty and labor migration from the village perspective, the agricultural hiring market as workers' turf, and the regi...