Book
The village of Viriatino: an ethnographic study of a Russian village from before the revolution to the present
Anchor Books • Garden City, N.Y. • Published In 1970 • Pages:
By: Benet, Sula, Benet, Sula.
Abstract
Written by a team of nine Russian ethnographers, each responsible for a chapter, this book discusses a century of change and continuity in the socioeconomic conditions of a peasant community. Pre-revolutionary life was characterized by exploitative agrarian relations rooted in the nexus of patriarchal family structure, religion, and land-holding inequality. Post-revolution, the communist party redistributed land equitably and organized farmers into collectives administered by elected officials. Parallel to a series of campaigns for literacy and numeracy, party leaders also promoted secularization by banning traditional religious practices, effectively increasing the power of young communist leaders and their supporters as agents in a campaign against former land owners and patriarchal elites.
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2018
- Field Date
- 1952-1957
- Coverage Date
- 1850-1957
- Coverage Place
- Viryatino (Viriatino), Sosnovsky, Tambov, Russia
- Notes
- Translated and edited by Sula Benet
- Translation of Selo Viri︠a︡tino v proshlom i nastoi︠a︡shchem (romanized form)
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 75123713
- LCSH
- Viryatino, Russia