Making Peasants Backward Agricultural

In this first monograph on the Russian cooperative movement before 1914, economic and social change is considered alongside Russian political culture. Looking at such historical actors as Sergei Witte, Piotr Stolypin, and Alexander Chaianov, and tapping into several newly opened Russian local and state archives on peasant practice in the movement, Yanni Kotsonis suggests how cooperatives reflected a pan-European dilemma over the extent to which populations can participate in their own transformation.

An examination of the Russian cooperative movement that uses the movement as a window into questions of economic change, social integration, and political culture in Russia and Europe.

Yanni Kotsonis teaches European and Russian History at New York University.

Introduction * Backwardness, Legitimacy, and Hegemony in Russian and Comparative Perspective * The Door to Society: European Models and Russian Peasants, 1861-95 * The "Popular Economy: " Laboring Peasants and Markets without Capitalists, 1895-4 * Cooperatives and Caste: The Debate on Property in the Stolypin Era, 1906-14 * Backwardness and Legitimacy and Economics, 1900-14 * Making Peasants Backward, 1900-14 * Epilogue * Index Introduction * Backwardness, Legitimacy, and Hegemony in Russian and Comparative Perspective * The Door to Society: European Models and Russian Peasants, 1861-95 * The "Popular Economy: " Laboring Peasants and Markets without Capitalists, 1895-4 * Cooperatives and Caste: The Debate on Property in the Stolypin Era, 1906-14 * Backwardness and Legitimacy and Economics, 1900-14 * Making Peasants Backward, 1900-14 * Epilogue * Index