by Corinne Gaudin (Author)
Who ruled the countryside in late Imperial Russia? On the rare occasions that tsarist administrators dared pose the question so boldly, their discouraged answer was that peasants ruled. This title challenges this dominant paradigm of the closed village by investigating the ways peasants engaged tsarist laws and the local institutions.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 281
Edition: annotated edition
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 01 May 2007
ISBN 10: 0875803709
ISBN 13: 9780875803708