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Article: Making Peasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia, 1861-1914.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- August 1, 2001
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Making Peasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia, 1861-1914, by Yanni Kotsonis. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. 272 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth).
Historians have often presented -- without serious examination -- the co-operative movement which rapidly spread throughout rural Russia before the 1917 Revolution as a viable, moderate, reformist path to the economic transformation of the Russian peasantry. Yanni Kotsonis denies that co-operatives had the potential to draw an isolated and disenfranchised peasantry into the national political, social and cultural arena. He convincingly argues that the impressive numerical gains of ...