Proletarian Peasants: The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest

by Robert Edelman

Overview

In this book, conceived and written for the general reader as well as the specialist, Robert Edelman uses a case study of peasant behavior during a particular revolutionary situation to make an important contribution to one of the major debates in contemporary peasant studies. Edelman's subject is the peasantry of the right-bank Ukraine, and he uses local and regional archives seldom available to Western scholars to give a detailed picture of the ways in which the inhabitants of one of Russia's most advanced agrarian regions expressed their discontent during the years 1905–1907. By the 1890s, the landlords of Russia’s Southwest had organized a highly successful capitalist form of agriculture, and Edelman demonstrates that their peasants responded to these dramatic economic changes by adopting many of the forms of political and social behavior generally associated with urban proletarians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501707674
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	878,879
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Robert Edelman is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Spartak Moscow: A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State, which was supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and published by Cornell University Press; it was the winner of the 2009 NASSH Book Award and the 2010 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize as well as being named a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title. He is also the author of Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR, winner of the North American Society of Sports Historians Book of the Year.

Table of Contents

1. A Theoretical Debate, a Political Struggle
2. Economy and Society in the Southwest
3. A Strike Movement—Demands and Tactics
4. A Peasant Movement—Patterns and Participants
5. The Consequences of the Prussian Path

Editorial Reviews

In a tightly written, nontechnical study, based largely on Soviet archival sources, Robert Edelman raises some major issues in the sociology of peasant political movements in the context of a fascinating Russian case study. Edelman raises important theoretical questions and attempts to answer them in the context of a distinct yet critical area. We are indebted to him for raising the issues with clarity and flair.

Contemporary Sociology

In a tightly written, nontechnical study, based largely on Soviet archival sources, Robert Edelman raises some major issues in the sociology of peasant political movements in the context of a fascinating Russian case study. Edelman raises important theoretical questions and attempts to answer them in the context of a distinct yet critical area. We are indebted to him for raising the issues with clarity and flair.

-- "Contemporary Sociology"

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