title: The Peasant Movement in Russia on the Eve of Emancipation as a Moment of Truth
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metadata.value: Mironov, Boris N.
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metadata.value: 2019-10-25T14:28:40Z
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metadata.value: 2019-10-25T14:28:40Z
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metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.value: Mironov B. N. The Peasant Movement in Russia on the Eve of Emancipation as a Moment of Truth. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2019, vol. 64, iss. 3, рp. 817–842.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2019.301
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16422
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metadata.value: In the first half of the 19th century peasant “unrest” was rare, small, spontaneous and unorganized; the participants did not put forward political demands, did not oppose the supreme power and the existing socio-economic system. The available statistics of the peasant movement were constructed in Soviet historiography methodologically incorrectly and was misinterpreted, in view of ideological motivation. In these statistics, various types of complaints and petitions were considered to be equal among themselves and at the same time equal to other forms of “protest” : escapes; unauthorized felling of forests; seizure of landlords’ livestock and land; refusal to pay the rent and to bear corvée; resistance to the landowner, the authorities or military punitive expedition; and even direct rebellion — these all forms were taken as a unit of account, called “unrest,” and were evaluated as manifestations of class struggle. Nowadays, such interpretations should be considered arbitrary, contrived, strained, sometimes ridiculous and strongly bearing the stamp of presentism. However, in fact, the statistics of “unrest” constructed in Soviet historiography is still widely used in researches, textbooks and folk history on the Internet. The method of assessing the strength of the peasant movement does not meet scholarly criteria. The researchers could not agree on what to take as a unit of social protest, and used as such, at their discretion, “rest”, “village”, “county/province”, “number of participants”, sometimes all at once. As a result, an insurmountable obstacle arose in the way of summarizing the data, which, despite this, was carried out.
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metadata.value: This research was supported by grant No. 19-09-00365 from Russian Foundation for Basic Research “Comparative analysis of the economic and social consequences of the February 19, 1861 reform in metropolitan
  provinces”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 64; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Empire of the 19th century
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metadata.value: crisis of the socio-economic system
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metadata.value: peasant movement
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: methodology of studying peasant unrest
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metadata.value: revolutionary situation
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metadata.value: The Peasant Movement in Russia on the Eve of Emancipation as a Moment of Truth
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