title: Grinding Mills in the Life of the Russian Peasantry of the Post-Reform Period
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metadata.value: Krivonozhenko, Alexander F.
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metadata.value: Zakharova, Ekaterina V.
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metadata.value: Litvin, Yulia V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-03T17:36:39Z
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metadata.value: 2021-11-03T17:36:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.value: Krivonozhenko A. F., Zakharova E. V., Litvin Yu. V. Grinding Mills in the Life of the Russian Peasantry of the Post-Reform Period. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 3, рp. 699–717.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.302
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33420
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metadata.value: Grinding mills were a routine attribute of the economic life of the peasantry, being an indispensable
  stage in the process of making bread. Yet these structures are hardly ever specifically
  researched by historians and anthropologists. This paper examines the socio-economic role
  of mills in the life of peasants of the early 20th century in Karelia. The study is based on the
  analysis of archival statistical data from the agricultural census of 1916 as well as on ethnographical
  and toponymical materials, which allows for a comprehensive examination of the
  object. The study has identified the number of mills in Karelia at the beginning of the 20th
  century. It also analyses the conditions that contributed to the effectiveness of functioning of
  these peasant farm buildings. It has been found that the mill craft in Karelia was the second
  (after blacksmithing) small-scale peasant production in terms of its economic benefit. At the
  same time, this type of economic activity was not the main source of income in those farms
  where they existed. The miller remained primarily a peasant farmer, but the level of prosperity
  of his economy was higher than that of other peasants. The sources used for the research
  have also enabled to trace the negative effects of crises in agriculture in Karelia during World
  War I on the flour milling business. A special attention in the paper is devoted to the mythological
  worldview of peasants. The analysis of the corpus of Karelian- and Russian-language toponymic data has confirmed the important role of grinding mills in the setup of the region’s
  peasant economy.
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metadata.value: The research was carried out within the state commission by the Karelian Research Centre of the
  Russian Academy of Sciences.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Karelia
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Olonets province
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: watermill
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: windmill
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: peasantry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sociocultural anthropology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: toponymy
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Grinding Mills in the Life of the Russian Peasantry of the Post-Reform Period
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metadata.value: Article
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