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Liberal reform in an illiberal regime, the creation of private property in Russia, 1906-1915, Stephen F. Williams

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Liberal reform in an illiberal regime, the creation of private property in Russia, 1906-1915, Stephen F. Williams

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-290) and index

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mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Liberal reform in an illiberal regime

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

62888985

Responsibility statement

Stephen F. Williams

Series statement

Hoover Institution Press publication, no. 545

Sub title

the creation of private property in Russia, 1906-1915

Table Of Contents

Introduction., Reform from above ; Stolypin: the man behind the reforms ; This book's goals -- Creating private property, dispersing power. The gist of the reforms ; Liberal democracy ; Property rights, civil society, and liberal democracy ; Transitions to liberal democracy ; Liberalizing property rights in tsarist Russia -- The, property rights to be reformed. Open fields ; Repartition ; Family v. individual tenure ; The costs of open fields, repartition, and family ownership ; Post-emancipation limits on exit, sale, or exchange ; Rule changes on the eve of the Stolypin reforms ; Sociology of the commune ; Attitudes toward law, property, and individual achievement -- Peasant conditions on the eve of reform. Trends in agricultural productivity per capita ; Peasant landholdings ; Peasant and pomeshchik productivity ; Land and grain prices: the Peasant Land Bank ; Tax burdens ; A glimpse of peasant life -- The, politics of reform. Composition of the first Duma ; The pomeshchiki ; The SRs, the Trudoviki and other peasant representatives ; The Kadets ; Use of article 87 ; Collateral reforms -- Overview of the reforms. Reform provisions: a rough cut ; The results of the reforms ; The flow of applications over time ; Regional variation ; Variations in size of holdings converted or consolidated -- Purposes and pressure: issues of reform design. Red herrings ; "Administrative pressure" ; Biases in favor of title conversion and consolidation ; Title conversion as an impediment to consolidation ; Government insistence on form of consolidation ; Shortfalls in the rights granted -- The, long-term implications. Productivity ; Short-term social stress ; Peasant acceptance in perspective: reversal and re-reversal in the Revolution: Siberian zemleustroistvo ; Gains: the soft variables ; Stifling the new property rights ; Prospects for liberal democracy from an illiberal regime's voluntary steps toward liberalism ; Coda: privatization of Russian agricultural land today

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