Title: Peasant dreams & market politics : labor migration and the Russian village, 1861-1905 /
Authors: Burds, Jeffrey.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Peasants Russia History; Peasants Russia History; Village communities Russia History.; Migrant labor Russia History.; Russia Rural conditions; Russia Economic conditions
Contents: The politics of reputation: toward an anthropology of the personal -- Emancipation, interregnum, and rural crisis -- The roots of ambivalence: peasant labor migration as a threat to village security -- In defense of peasant patriarchalism: institutional responses to peasant labor migration -- Autocratic authority and the peasant "little community": state agents, village officials, and community opinion -- The social control of peasant labor: the alliance of family and community -- The sociology of class: peasant communes and market brokers -- The logic of solidarity: migrants and villagers -- Legacies: Otkhod and Russian popular culture -- A culture of acquisition: the genesis of mass consumer culture in rural Russia -- A culture of denunciation: patterns of religious anathematization in rural Russia.