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Article: Land Reform in Russia 1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin's Project of Rural Transformation.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2001
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Land Reform in Russia 1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin's Project of Rural Transformation. By Judith Pallot. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 254. $75.00.)
The Stolypin land reform is generally viewed as a progressive attempt to bring enclosure, individualized farming, and intensive fodder and grass rotation systems to rural Russia in the early twentieth century. The reform, named after a much-reviled Prime Minister of Russia who was assassinated in 1911, also reflected a longstanding Russian political pattern of modernization from above. In fact, the element of compulsion in imposing change, consistent with this Russian pattern of reform, is ...