Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246977 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Papers in Economic History No. 46
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
This paper deals with agricultural dynamics in late-Imperial Russia. Based upon a comprehensive micro-level data set on annual yields between 1883 and 1913, we provide insight into regional differences of agricultural growth and the development prospects of Russian agriculture before WWI. Making use of the fact that— unique in Europe— contemporary Russian statistics distinguished between "privately owned" and mostly communally governed "peasant" land, we are able to test the implications of different landtenure systems for agricultural growth. In a broader sense we will challenge the stereotype of the "backward" peasant and the common narrative of Russia as an exception to the pan-European picture of economic development during the era of industrialization.
Subjects: 
Russia
land productivity
peasant communal agriculture
land tenure
JEL: 
N53
O13
Q15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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