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    Evgenij AkelÂŽev, Povsednevnaja ĆŸiznÂŽ vorovskogo mira Moskvy vo vremena VanÂŽki Kaina

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    The popular Molodaia Gvardia “Living History” book series on everyday life, now approaching 100 titles, is a baggy collection of histories and current events. Some of its history books are not the new social or cultural studies suggested by the series title but merely standard accounts with the fashionable label “everyday life” tacked on. Others are rehashes of gossipy court or high society studies. But a few are genuinely original, powerful works of historical excavation. A recent addition t..

    Implicit Questions in Michael Confino’s Essay

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    AbstractThe essay commends Michael Confino’s challenging criticisms over many years of the conceptualizations commonly used by historians of Russia. David L. Ransel agrees with the criticisms of the soslovie paradigm advanced by Confino in his recent essay. Ransel suggests that by adapting the soslovie to class conceptualization of Russia’s modernization, historians may have missed seeing a more fruitful and instructive conceptualization, one usually associated with Ibero-Latin regimes rather than Russia, namely, the development of Russia from a patrimonial state to a corporate state and society. Ransel also points out the obstacles presented by the soslovie paradigm for understanding of the micro-dynamics of Russian history. The soslovie paradigm tends to blind scholars to a feature of Russian life that Confino himself had commented on many years ago: Russians of all social statuses lived in close proximity and interacted daily. Ransel gives examples from his own work and the work of others and calls for more study of the micro-dynamics of Russian history.RĂ©sumĂ©Le prĂ©sent essai appuie les critiques stimulantes formulĂ©es par Michael Confino pendant de nombreuses annĂ©es sur les conceptualisations communĂ©ment utilisĂ©es par les historiens de la Russie. L’auteur admet les critiques de la notion de soslovie avancĂ©es par Confino dans son dernier article (CMR, 49 (4), 2008). Il laisse entendre qu’en adoptant le modĂšle selon lequel la modernisation de la Russie se serait opĂ©rĂ©e par le passage d’une sociĂ©tĂ© de soslovija Ă  une sociĂ©tĂ© de classes, les historiens ont pu passer Ă  cĂŽtĂ© d’une autre conceptualisation plus fructueuse et Ă©difiante, associĂ©e d’ordinaire aux rĂ©gimes latino-amĂ©ricains et ibĂ©riens plutĂŽt qu’à la Russie, Ă  savoir, le dĂ©veloppement de la Russie par le passage d’un État patrimonial Ă  un État et une sociĂ©tĂ© corporatistes. L’auteur pointe Ă©galement les obstacles que soulĂšve la notion de soslovie dans la comprĂ©hension de la microdynamique de l’histoire russe. La notion de soslovie tend Ă  masquer un aspect de la vie russe que Confino lui-mĂȘme avait commentĂ© il y a longtemps dĂ©jà : les Russes de tous statuts sociaux vivaient en proximitĂ© Ă©troite et Ă©taient en contact quotidiennement. L’auteur propose des exemples extraits de diffĂ©rents travaux, dont les siens, et invite Ă  utiliser davantage l’approche microdynamique de l’histoire russe

    Conflicts over Land Use in the Moscow Region

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    Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy [Book Review]

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    Book review of: Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy by Sergei Antonov. 400 pages, 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches, 6 halftones, 14 tables. Harvard Historical Studies 187, ISBN 9780674971486

    Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy [Book Review]

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    Book review of: Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy by Sergei Antonov. 400 pages, 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches, 6 halftones, 14 tables. Harvard Historical Studies 187, ISBN 9780674971486

    Abandoned Children

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