Beginning in the 1860s, the Russian Empire replaced a poll tax
system that originated with Peter the Great with a modern system of
income and excise taxes. Russia began a transformation of state
fiscal power that was also underway across Western Europe and North
America. States of Obligation is the first sustained study of the
Russian taxation system, the first to study its European and
transatlantic context, and the first to expose the essential
continuities between the fiscal practices of the Russian Empire and
the Soviet Union.
Using a wealth of materials from provincial and local archives
across Russia, Yanni Kotsonis examines how taxation was
simultaneously a revenue-raising and a state-building tool, a claim
on the person and a way to produce a new kind of citizenship.
During successive political, wartime, and revolutionary crises
between 1855 and 1928, state fiscal power was used to forge social
and financial unity and fairness and a direct relationship with
individual Russians. State power eventually overwhelmed both the
private sector economy and the fragile realm of personal privacy.
States of Obligation is at once a study in Russian economic history
and a reflection on the modern state and the modern citizen.
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