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Могло ли измельчание помещичьих хозяйств в конце XVIII – начале XIX вв. сделать их более производительными?
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Korchmina E. S., Voskoboynikov I.
The authors argue that landlord’s income per male soul grew as reducing the size of an estate. Moreover the productive capacity of the serfs in economy of two or three estates was higher than in households of one estate. The work is based on a unique archival dataset.
Аракчеев В. А., Российская история 2023 № 1 С. 26–46
The article presents the results of the study of the socio-political evolution of Russian society in the second half of the XVII century. The author argues against a scholarly interpretation of Council Code, which “reflects first stage of transition of Russia from state-representation monarchy to absolutism”. With the development of the legislation codified earlier in ...
Added: June 16, 2026
Аракчеев В. А., Российская история 2024 № 1 С. 31–48
The article is a critical analysis of K.Y. Yerusalimsky's hypothesis and a polemic with him on the problems of enserfment and migration in Russia in the late XVI–first half of the XVII century. It is shown that the complex structure of Russian society predetermined nonlinear forms of enserfment of peasants. The understanding of such phenomena ...
Added: June 11, 2026
Mustafin A., Russian Journal of Economics 2026 Vol. 12 No. 1 P. 137–152
This article examines archival records on crop yields and recruit numbers in eighteenth-century Russia, analyzing their dynamics and comparing them with data on recruits’ height as an indicator of changes in the standard of living. The study uses more than one hundred and ten archival sources, enabling the construction of time series. The resulting numbers ...
Added: April 26, 2026
Matranga A., Natkhov T., Review of Economic Studies 2025 Vol. 00 No. 00 P. 1–35
This article examines the emergence of coercive labor institutions using the case of serfdom in early modern Russia. We argue that serfdom consolidated under the pressure of landholding military elites who gained political influence due to the prolonged struggle with steppe nomads. To contain nomadic raids, the Russian state erected defense lines on the southern frontier, and granted land ...
Added: November 7, 2025
Zaostrovtsev A. P., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2025 Т. 34 № 1 С. 161–178
This article reviews two books by Dmitry Travin, which address fundamental questions about the historical development of Russia. It highlights that both the problem of Russia’s backwardness and the concept of the Russian trap are not examined independently but through comparisons with European history. The author frames Russia as a deviation within European civilization, rather ...
Added: March 9, 2025
Melnik D. V., Холдевич Д. С., Вопросы теоретической экономики 2023 № 2 С. 133–155
One of the well-established concepts in the understanding of the Soviet period is the consideration of its initial stage in relation to the implementation of the new economic policy (NEP) and the subsequent departure from it. That was reflected in the analysis of the experience of foreign concessions of the 1920s. It is consistently regarded ...
Added: May 31, 2023
Kamenskii A. B., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 6: Экономика 2023 Т. 58 № 2 С. 159–167
The article attempts to identify the most significant lessons that can be learned from
the experience of the transformations of Peter the Great — one of the key events in Russian
history that determined the vector of the country’s development for a long time. Both
the positive and negative experience of Peter the Great’s reforms is considered, and ...
Added: May 9, 2023
Platonova N., Estudios Geograficos 2023
the initial stage of the Russian colonization of Crimea was about settling and allotting of lands to incoming people for agriculture and other projects. The distribution of lands was extensive but had not been well managed. The confusion of ownership rights and the lack of demarcation of the property boundaries caused frequent conflicts. In the ...
Added: December 27, 2022
Moriakov Y., Вестник Томского государственного университета 2022 № 481 С. 165–182
This article examines the legal cases and petitions about the crimes of Darya Saltykova, the most famous serial killer in eighteenth-century Russia. From the mid-1750s to 1762, Saltykova murdered and maimed serfs in her Moscow mansion at the intersection of Sretenka and Kuznetsky Most streets, as well as in the village of Troitskoye near Moscow. ...
Added: December 14, 2022
«Центр рекламы «Лоцман», 2021.
Сборник содержит тексты докладов и сообщений ученых, сотрудников архивных учреждений, работников учреждений культуры, краеведов, представленных на конференцию. Публикуемые материалы в своем большинстве подготовлены на основе документальных источников, выявленных в центральных и местных архивах, впервые вводимых в научный оборот. Издание предназначено для самого широкого круга читателей, интересующихся историей. . ...
Added: August 13, 2022
Parsamov V., Русская литература 2022 № 1 С. 268–270
It is traditionally believed that the author of the article "Historical тews about the specified ancient ranks in Russia" is N.I. Novikov. The article, however, is based on the text by I. I. Golikov, thoroughly revised and expanded by Novikov. ...
Added: June 1, 2022
Medushevsky A. N., Директ-Медиа, 2015.
Печатается по тексту первого издания: Медушевский А.Н. Проекты аграрных реформ в России: XVIII – начало XXI века. – М.: Наука, 2005. – 639 с. В книге рассмотрена проблема легитимности земельной собственности в России в длительной исторической перспективе – от становления аграрного вопроса во второй половине XVIII в. до современных дискуссий о направлениях его решения в ...
Added: January 7, 2022
Moriakov Y., В кн.: Люди империи – империя людей: персональная и институциональная история Азиатских окраин России: сб. науч. статей.: Омск: Издательство Омского государственного университета, 2021. С. 233–239.
This article studies the ideas of former serfs about exile to Siberia and about exile to a distant
landlord’s estate. The study refers to published memoirs, the authors of which were serfs by birth living
in the European part of the Russian Empire. The author concludes that the memoirists assessed
the exile to settlement as the worst alternative ...
Added: November 1, 2021
Platonova N., La Revue Russe 2021 No. 57 P. 15–29
Since the Treaty of Nertchinsk signed in 1689, which was followed by the Treaty of Kiakhta in 1728, Russia and the Qing Empire inaugurated their diplomatic and economic relations. Tsar Peter I then took the initiative of establishing a continental caravan traffic in order to connect the capitals of the two vast empires. Despite the ...
Added: October 18, 2021
Gloveli G., В кн.: Экономические теории в пространстве и времени.: СПб.: Алетейя, 2020. Гл. 3 С. 54–72.
Paper is dedicated to the protoanalysis of national competitiveness in W. Petty’ s “Political Arithmetic” as a corollary of mercantilist reasoning as regards сauses of Dutch Miracle. In accordance with Wallerstein’ s World-System Approach balance-of-trade doctrine is estimated as the discourse encouraged by Dutch Hegemony as well as rivalry in the North-West-European core since the ...
Added: December 11, 2020
Kucherskaya M. A., Lifshits A., В кн.: Русский реализм XIX века: общество, знание, повествование.: М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2020. С. 503–521.
Статья посвящена способам создания Н.С.Лесковым эффекта правдоподобия в повести "Тупейный художник". В статье рассматриваются тексты и театральные постановки, которые послужили так
называемым «реквизитом» для этого хрестоматийного текста. Проблема сососуществования установки на подлинность повествования и одновременно художественного вымысла решается у Лескова особым образом. «Тупейный художник» создавался как будто бы в диалоге с известными Лескову драматическими и прозаическими текстами. Лесков противопоставляет жуткую реальность, в ...
Added: November 4, 2020