Peasant Farming in Muscovy 1st Edition by Robert Ernest Frederick Smith ISBN 0521086523 9780521086523

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ISBN 10: 0521086523

ISBN 13: 9780521086523 

Author: Robert Ernest Frederick Smith

This comprehensive study of farming methods and agrarian organization in Russia before the time of Peter the Great shifts the emphasis from the great estates to the basic production unit, the peasant family farms, and uses archaeological and enthnographic materials to supplement the documentary evidence. The methods of production and the farm implements used are described in detail and Professor Smith argues that features inherent in peasant farming account for Russian backwardness during this period. Part I classifies and describes the range of agrarian activities carried on in Muscovy – arable farming, hayfields, livestock, and gathering from the forest – and presents a model of a hypothetical farm unit; Part II examines three regions -Moscow, Toropets and Kazan – which stretch across central European Russia; and Part III provides a chapter on the relationship between peasant farming and the state.

Table of contents:

Part I. The Elements of the Peasant Household:
1. Tillage implements, the arable land
2. The hayfields, livestock
3. The forest, gathering and extractive industry
4. The family
5. A production and consumption model
Part II. Regions:
6. Muscovy
7 Moscow uezd
8. Toropets
9. Kazan’
Part III:
10. Peasant farming and the state.

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