Did serfdom matter? Russian rural society, 1750–1860*

Tracy Dennison

DOI:10.1111/J.1468-2281.2006.00352.X

Corpus ID: 154513301

Did serfdom matter? Russian rural society, 1750–1860*

@article{Dennison2006DidSM,
  title={Did serfdom matter? Russian rural society, 1750–1860*},
  author={Tracy Dennison},
  journal={Historical Research},
  year={2006},
  volume={79},
  pages={74-89}
}

Tracy Dennison
Published 2006
Economics
Historical Research

Historians have long assumed that the effects of serfdom on rural economies were uniformly negative. More recently, however, a revisionist view has emerged, which portrays serfdom as having had little or no effect on peasants’ social and economic behaviour. This article examines these theories, using archival material for one particular serf estate in central Russia, during the period 1750–1860. The evidence indicates that the effects of serfdom were not as straightforward as either view… Expand

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