Book
The peasants of central Russia
Waveland Press, Inc. • Prospect Heights, Ill. • Published In 1988 • Pages:
By: Dunn, Stephen Porter, Dunn, Ethel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book describes the post-revolutionary Soviet policies and processes that transformed the Central Russian countryside from traditional peasant to modern industrial agriculture. The discussion focuses on empirical comparison of the economic conditions for two separate communities and periods: Gadyshi (Komsomol’skiy) during the early 1920s, when the new communist-led regime redistributed farmland and reorganized rural villages into new units administered by elected officials; and Viriatino (Viryatino) during the mid-1950s, when the regime completed its reorganization of formerly autonomous or semi-autonomous farming households into party-run socialist communes. Important changes that occurred over the course of those years include the elimination of land-based inequalities, an increase in productivity through adoption of improved agronomic practices, and expanded opportunities for education and salaried employment leading to the out-migration of rural youth to towns. Areas of significant continuity are also documented, including family life, religiosity, folk arts, marriage customs, and other aspects of traditional Russian culture and society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Economic planning and development
- Cooperative organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1966
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Central Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Stephen P. Dunn and Ethel Dunn
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-139)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Peasants--Soviet Union
- Farm life--Soviet Union
- Soviet Union--Rural conditions