Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin

Boris B Gorshkov is Lecturer in History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. He is the author of Russia’s Factory Children, Society, and the State: Childhood, Apprenticeship and Law, 1800-1917 (2009) and A Life under Russian Serfdom: Memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, 1800-68 (2005).

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsAuthor's PrefaceIntroduction: Institutional, Historiographical and Conceptual Framework 1. A Life under Russian Serfdom: Peasant Society and Politics under Serfdom 2. Peasant Agriculture3. Peasants, Childhood and Gender roles4. The Field and the Loom: Peasant Economy 5. Peasants and Russia’s Early Industrialization 6. The Peasant and the Formation of Industrial Labor Forces 7. From Peasant to Industrialist: Social Mobility of the Peasantry 8. Peasant Public Sphere 9. Peasants and the End of Serfdom 10. Post-Emancipation Peasant Economy and Society 11. Peasants and the Russian Revolutions 12. Realpolitik: From the Red Terror to the New Economic Policy 13. Peasant Life during Collectivization Afterword: Demise of the Russian Peasantry BibliographyIndex

[An] excellent introductory read, often presented in a lively fashion, and demonstrating a remarkable ability to succinctly describe what were sometimes enormously complicated processes or developments … All in all, the portrait of daily life, micro-economic practices, family relations, and childhood, is vivid and persuasive. The author should be congratulated for undertaking such a bold enterprise and daring to challenge the standards of quibbling academics in order to reach a wider audience.