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Author_Jerome Blum
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Boris Godunov
Boris Pasternak
Boris Sheremetev
Bourgeoisie
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Central Russia
Christianity in Russia
Cossacks
Dairy cattle
Division of labour
Dmitrov
East Slavs
Economy of Russia
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European Russia
Family income
Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Grand duchy
Grand Duchy of Moscow
Great Russia
Grigory Potemkin
Indentured servant
Ivan I of Moscow
Ivan Susanin
Ivan Turgenev
Kievan Rus'
Land grant
Leo Tolstoy
Machinery of government
Michael I of Russia
Mode of production
Mogilev
Mongols
Moscow
Nizhny Novgorod
Novgorod Republic
Novorossiya
Paul I of Russia
Peasant
Peasant movement
Prince of Novgorod
Pskov
Russia
Russian culture
Russian Empire
Russian Life
Russian Navy
Russian nobility
Russian Orthodox Church
Russian ruble
Russian soul
Russian-American Company
Russians
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Serfdom in Russia
Sergei Prokofiev
Smolensk
Southern Russia
Stalinism
Tsardom of Russia
Tsarist autocracy
Tsarskoye Selo
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Veliky Novgorod
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Product details
- ISBN 9780691007649
- Weight: 964g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Apr 1971
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom--the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries--is impossible. Still, before Jerome Blum, no scholar had tackled the subject in depth. Monumental in scope and pathbreaking in its analysis, Lord and Peasant in Russia garnered immediate attention upon its publication in 1961, a year that also marked the one hundredth anniversary of the emancipation of the Russian serfs. As one reviewer remarked, "No better book on the subject exists; it is indispensable to the serious student of Russia." On a scale befitting Russia--a sixth of the earth's land mass--Blum's book explored in almost seven hundred pages the legal and social evolution of its predominantly agricultural population, the types of peasant status, and the multifaceted nature of the master-peasant relationship. More important, Blum was the first to articulate the necessity of placing serfs front and center in the study of Russian history. As a reviewer for the Economist wrote, "Mr. Blum has written not just a monograph on landlords and peasants in Russia but a history of Russia from a particular point of view.
There is no denying that the history of a country where ...a bare 13 percent of the population was urban can with impunity be written in terms of landlords and peasants." In 1962, it was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association; it remains a cornerstone of Russian historiography.
