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'In his original and imaginative book, Dr Kotsonis considers the rival projects for peasant reform in Tsarist Russia, and their impact on life and work of the peasants. The author argues that all these schemes, from the conservative to the radical left, assumed that the peasants were 'backward', and should be guided to a better progressive future. This was the root of their failure, of the peasants own attempt to modify the agenda. This study, based on a wide variety of new sources, will arouse much interest and controversy.' - Professor R.W. Davies, University of Birmingham
'This interesting book will provoke much controversy.' - Slavic Review
'This study presents succinctly...the clearest and most thorough explanation yet available in the West of the failure of those ostensibly responsible for the welfare of Russia's peasantry to assist them toward the progress enjoyed by many of their contemporaries in Western and Central Europe...This work is...a major contribution to augmenting our understanding of a crucial failure plaguing the troubled history of late Imperial Russia.' - Oliver Hayward, EH. NET
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Book Title: Making Peasants Backward
Book Subtitle: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia, 1861–1914
Authors: Yanni Kotsonis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376304
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Yanni Kotsonis 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-72587-0Published: 30 June 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-40583-1Published: 01 January 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37630-4Published: 30 June 1999
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 245
Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Modern History, European History, Social History, Economic History, Agriculture