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SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE FIFTH WORLD CONGRESS OF CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES, WARSAW, 1995 Edited for the International Council for Central and East European Studies by Ronald J. Hill, Professor of Comparative Government, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland Titles in the series include: Sue Bridger (editor) WOMEN AND POLITICAL CHANGE Perspectives from East-Central Europe John Dunn (editor) LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY IN POST-COMMUNIST EUROPE William E. Ferry and Roger E. Kanet (editors) POST-COMMUNIST STATES IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY Graeme .Gill (editor) ELITES AND LEADERSHIP IN RUSSIAN POLITICS Paul G. Hare (editor) SYSTEMIC CHANGE IN POST-COMMUNIST ECONOMIES Mark S. Johnson (editor) EDUCATION IN TRANSITION Anthony Kemp-Welch (editor) STALINISM IN POLAND, 1944-56 Stanislav J. Kirschbaum (editor) HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS ON CENTRAL EUROPE Carol S. Leonard (editor) THE MICROECONOMICS OF POST-COMMUNIST CHANGE Kevin McDermott and John Morison (editors) POLITICS AND SOCIETY UNDER THE BOLSHEVIKS John Morison (editor) ETHNIC AND NATIONAL ISSUES IN RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY Judith Pallot (editor) TRANSFORMING PEASANTS Society, State and the Peasantry, 1861-1930 Richard Sakwa (editor) THE EXPERIENCE OF DEMOCRATIZATION IN EASTERN EUROPE Barry P. Scherr and Karen L. Ryan-Hayes (editors) TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE Ray Taras (editor) NATIONAL IDENTITIES AND ETHNIC MINORITIES IN EASTERN EUROPE Ian D. Thatcher (editor) REGIME AND SOCIETY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIA International Congress of Central and East European Studies Series Standing Order ISBN 0-333-71195-5 (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England 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 Oxford First published in Great Britain 1998 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-349-26528-2 ISBN 978-1-349-26526-8 (eBook) DOl 10.1007/978-1-349-26526-8 First published in the United States of America 1998 by ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-1-349-26528-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data World Congress of Central and East European Studies (5th : 1995 : Warsaw, Poland) Transforming peasants: society, state and the peasantry, 1861-1930 : selected papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies I edited by Judith Pallot. p. em. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-1-349-26528-2 I. Peasantry-Russia-History-20th century-Congresses. 2. Peasantry-Soviet Union-History-Congresses. I. Pallot, Judith. II. Title. HDI536.R9W67 1995 305.5'633'0947--dc21 97-49890 CIP Selection and editorial matter © International Council for Central and East European Studies and Judith Pallot 1998 Introduction © Judith Pallot 1998 General Editor's Introduction© Ronald J. Hill 1998 Chapters 1-7 ©Macmillan Press Ltd 1998 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1998 978-0-333-69551-7 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WI P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 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 v 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 ix
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