Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian SerfdomHarvard University Press, 1 Mar 1990 - 534 halaman Two massive systems of unfree labor arose, a world apart from each other, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until they were legally abolished in the mid-nineteenth century. Historian Peter Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time in this magisterial book, which clarifies the organization, structure, and dynamics of both social entities, highlighting their basic similarities while pointing out important differences discernible only in comparative perspective. |
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... Pomeshchiki , and Paternalism 3. Ideals and Ideology 103 157 PART II The Bondsmen and Their Masters 195 4. Community and Culture . 5. Patterns of Resistance 241 6. Protest , Unity , and Disunity . 302 Epilogue : The Crisis of Unfree ...
... pomeshchiki ) remained in good graces . The process involved widespread violence and confiscation of hereditary landholdings ( votchiny ) . In the 1470s and 1480s , for example , when Ivan III annexed Novgorod , he executed scores of ...
... pomeshchiki ; each of them depended for his livelihood on the labor of only a few peasant families , whose departure threatened not only monetary loss but total ruin . It was these pomeshchiki , therefore , who clamored most for relief ...
... pomeshchiki as servitors fighting for the tsar put a premium on labor in much the same way that foreign demand did in America . After the establishment of serfdom , its spread went hand in hand with the spread of commercial agriculture ...
... pomeshchiki with more than 20 males and two-fifths of them belonged to owners with more than 100 males. Similarly, areas with the largest slaveholdings in the United States would hardly have seemed exceptional in Russia. Ascension ...
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PART II The Bondsmen and Their Masters | 193 |
The Crisis of Unfree Labor | 359 |
Bibliographical Note | 377 |
Notes | 385 |
Index | 505 |