商品簡介
In 11 essays, Hoch addresses a wide range of issues regarding rural life in Russian. Among his topics are whether Russia's emancipated serfs really paid too much for too little land; statistical anomalies and long-tailed distributions; demographic insights into serfs in imperial Russia; the banking crisis, peasant reform, and economic development in Russia 1857-61; anthropometric measures of well-being in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union 1821-1960; bride-wealth, dowry, and socioeconomic differentiation in rural Russia; and the great reformers and the world they did not know: drafting the emancipation legislation in Russia 1858-61. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Steven L. Hoch works at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. He is formerly Professor of History at the University of Iowa and past Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. He is also Professor of History at Washington State University.