Essays in Russian social and economic history / Steven L. Hoch.

Author/creator Hoch, Steven L.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBoston ; Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2015.
Description328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Subjects
Soviet Union--Social conditions. --20th century.
Russia--Social conditions. --1801-1917.
Russia--Economic conditions. --1861-1917.
Russia--History. --20th century.
Russia $x History $y 1801-1917.
Soviet Union--Economic conditions. --20th century.

Portion of title Russian social and economic history
SeriesImperial encounters in Russian history
Imperial encounters in Russian history. ^A1173344
Contents Did Russia's emancipated serfs really pay too much for too little land? : statistical anomalies and long-tailed distributions -- On good numbers and bad : Malthus, population trends, and peasant standard of living in late Imperial Russia -- Serfs in Imperial Russia demographic insights -- Serf diet in nineteenth-century Russia -- Famine, disease, and mortality patterns in the parish of Borshevka, Russia, 1830-1912 -- The banking crisis, peasant reform, and economic development in Russia, 1857-1861 -- The tax censuses and the decline of the serf population in Imperial Russia, 1833-1858 / (Steven L. Hoch and Wilson R. Augustine) -- Tall tales : anthropometric measures of well-being in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, 1821-1960 -- Bridewealth, dowry, and socioeconomic differentiation in rural Russia -- The serf economy, the peasant family, and the social order -- The great reformers and the world they did not know : drafting the emancipation legislation in Russia, 1858-61.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2015473590
ISBN9781618114280 (cloth)
ISBN161811428X (cloth)