Russia on the Move - Railroads and the Exodus from Compulsory Collectivism, 1861-1914 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book explores the impact of railroads on 19thcentury Russian peasant collectivism. The mutual-insurance mechanism in a precarious agricultural environment, provided bya structured communal-village system predicated on the reputation and authorityof community norms,is exposed to rationalist exchange-occasioning an institutional adaptation process:the individualization of property rights in land. Spatial-mobility technology animated market integration, specialization, literacy,and human-capital acquisition among peasant wage workers who commuted from their villages.Temporarily rising transaction costs forced the Tsar to concede household property rights in land in the so-called Stolypin reform of 1906.This challenge to the imperial patrimony, powered by the railroads, steered late imperial Russia toward constitutional governance.The spatial-mobility technology gave peasants access to centers of agglomeration of knowledge, changedcognitive perceptions of distance, and reduced the uncertainty and opportunity costs of travel. The empirical findings in this monograph corroborate the conclusion that the railroads occasioned a cultural revolution in late imperial Russia and made Stalin unnecessary for the modernization of the Euro-asian giant. This book highlights the profound effect that the development of the railroads had on Russian economic and political institutions and practices. It will be of indispensable valueto students and researchers interested in transitional economics and economic history.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Studies in Economic Transition
Release date:	February 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Sylvia Sztern
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	513
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-089284-5
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
LSN:	3-03-089284-0
Barcode:	9783030892845

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