Russian Peasant Organisation Before Collectivisation
A Study of Commune and Gathering 1925–1930

Most Russian peasants in the mid-1920s held their land as members of a commune, the old Russian form of land-holding.

D. J. Male (Author)

9780521077750, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 September 2008

264 pages
22.4 x 14.4 x 1.8 cm, 0.3 kg

Most Russian peasants in the mid-1920s held their land as members of a commune (or mir), the old Russian form of land-holding. The revolution had brought a revival in the fortunes of the institution. This was not a welcome development to the Bolsheviks and the Soviet government unsuccessfully attempted to supplant the commune as the focus of rural affairs, by instituting the rural Soviets. The debate on land-holding in the mid-twenties bore fruit only in encouraging peasants to modify the worst inefficiencies of strip farming.

Part I. The Commune: Its function and organisation in its agricultural perspective: 1. Land holding in European Russia in the 1920s
2. Function and organisation
Part II. The Commune and Soviet Society: 3. The Commune and the Soviet network
4. Collectivisation and the Commune.

Subject Areas: General & world history [HBG]