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" Liberal reform in an illiberal regime : "
Stephen F. Williams
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BL
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700574
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b522763
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Williams, Stephen F
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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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Stanford, Calif. :: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University,, c2006
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Hoover Institution Press publication ;
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xii, 320 p. :: ill., map ;; 23 cm
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0817947221 (alk. paper)
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: 9780817947224 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-290) and index
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| Contents
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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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Stolypin, Petr Arkadʹevich,1862-1911
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Land reform-- Russia-- History-- 20th century
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Peasants-- Russia-- History-- 20th century
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Right of property-- Russia-- History-- 20th century
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333.3/14709041
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HD1333.R9W55 2006
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HD1333.R9W55 2006
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