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November 20, 2007
Corrine Gaudin, MA'88, PhD'93
Ruling Peasants: Village and State in Late Imperial Russia, Northern Illinois University Press, 2007.
The book: Who ruled the countryside in late Imperial Russia? On the rare occasions that tsarist administrators posed the question, they answered that the peasants ruled. And historians have largely echoed this assessment. This book challenges this dominant paradigm of the closed village by investigating the ways peasants engaged tsarist laws and the local institutions that were created in a series of contradictory legal, administrative and agrarian reforms from the late 1880s to the eve of World War I.
The author: Corinne Gaudin is assistant professor of history at the University of Ottawa.
Posted by tobiaslw at November 20, 2007 11:54 AM