- List of Maps and Figures
- Notes on Names
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. On the Eve of Conquest
- 2. On Parallel Paths: Settlement and Adaptation on the New Russian Frontier
- Administrative Integration and Settlement
- Private Estates and the Onset of Serfdom, 1774–1861
- The Settlement of Immigrants on State Lands Colonists
- New Russia in the Round: The Demographics of Change
- 3. Land and Livelihood: Sheep Husbandry and the New Russian Frontier
- Wheat and Cattle
- Sheep
- Peasants and “Safety First” Sheep Breeding
- Colonists, Estate Owners, and Fine Fleeced Sheep Breeding
- The Crisis of Fine Fleeced Sheepbreeding, and Responses
- 4. When Paths Converged: A Revolution in Landed Relations and Land Use, 1840–1880
- Land and Labour: The Background to the Emancipation Proclamation of 1861
- The Crimean War and its Aftermath
- Servile Responses to Late Serfdom
- The Emancipation and Immediate Reaction
- Life After Emancipation
- 5. Cities, Rails and Markets: New Russia’s Transformation Beyond the Fields, 1850–1900
- New Russia’s Urban Revolution: Odessa and the South
- Odessa and the Cities of the Coast
- New Russia’s Industrial Revolution: Ekaterinoslav and the Donbas
- 6. Weeds in the Wheat Field: Peasants and Struggle Toward Intensive Agricultural Economies in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Peasant Economies at Mid-Century: “Safety First”
- The Acquisition of New Implements After 1870
- A Crisis Unfolds
- The Turnaround in Peasant Agriculture
- 7. Revolting Newlyweds: The Peasant Obshchina and “Land Hunger” After 1870
- Peasants, Serfs, and Turfs
- Storms arise in former State Peasant villages
- Former Serf Villages
- Social Relations on the Eve of Revolution
- 8. A Fitting Conclusion? 1905 in New Russia
- 1905 and the New Russian countryside
- Agitators Beyond the Village: Myths, Rumours, and Outsiders
- Unrest from within: Rapid Social Change and Peasant Vulnerability
- The Restoration of Order
- Conclusion
- Sources
- Index
HARVARD SERIES IN UKRAINIAN STUDIES
Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine
Peasants, Nobles, and Colonists, 1774–1905
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Publication Date: 02/15/2009
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