title: Debates on the Peasant Question in the Nikolaevan Era
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metadata.value: Martin, Alexander Michael
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-04-16T10:57:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-04-16T10:57:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Martin A. M. Debates on the Peasant Question in the Nikolaevan Era. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 1, рp. 293–301.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.118
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/27914
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: A large scholarly literature exists about plans for a peasant reform in the reign of Nicholas
  I. However, the most important archival documents about the debates on the peasant question
  remain unpublished. The new book by T. V. Andreeva “The distant approaches to the Great
  Reform: The peasant question in Russia in the reign of Nicholas I” seeks to fill this lacuna. The
  book begins with a historical survey of the six government committees that were tasked with
  planning reforms, followed by an extensive collection of archival documents of both official
  and private provenance. In the debates under Nicholas I, the specific problem of serfdom was
  folded into the larger question of the social position of the peasants, which the government
  regarded as a source of both political instability and economic backwardness. The solution
  that officials envisioned was a reform that was comprehensive, multi-faceted, and gradual.
  Step-by-step, the evolution that had led to creation of serfdom from the 17th century onward
  was to be reversed: the landlords were gradually to lose their power over the person of the
  serfs, who were to be attached only to the land itself. Eventually, the serfs were to be emancipated
  with land; in the meantime, restrictions on the power of landlords and a comprehensive
  reform of the state peasants were to serve as preparatory steps. According to Andreeva, the
  vision of Nicholas and his advisors was too limited and conservative, and premised on the
  mistaken belief that it was possible to modernize the country without touching the core of the
  sociopolitical system.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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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 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: serfdom
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: state peasants
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: peasant question
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: secret committees
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nicholas I
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Reforms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: P. D. Kiselev
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Debates on the Peasant Question in the Nikolaevan Era
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metadata.value: Article
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