Liberal reform in an illiberal regime : the creation of private property in Russia, 1906 - 1915

XII, 320 S.

graph. Darst., Kt.

Hoover Institution Press publication ; No. 545

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Literaturverz. S. [271] - 290

Reform from above ? Stolypin: the man behind the reforms -- This book's goals -- Creating private property, dispersing power -- The gist of the reforms ? liberal democracy ? property rights, civil society, and liberal democracy -- Transitions to liberal democracy -- Liberalizing property rights in tsarist Russia -- The property rights to be reformed -- Open fields' repartition -- Family v. individual tenure -- The costs of open fields, repartition, and family ownership -- Post-emancipation limits on exit, sale, or exchange -- Rule changes on the eve of the Stolypin reforms -- Sociology of the commune -- Attitudes toward law, property, and individual achievement -- Peasant conditions on the eve of reform -- Trends in agricultural productivity per capita -- Peasant landholdings -- Peasant and pomeshchik productivity -- Land and grain prices : the peasant land bank -- Tax burdens -- A glimpse of peasant life -- The politics of reform -- Composition of the first Duma -- The pomeshchiki, the SRS, the trudoviki and other peasant representatives -- The Kadets -- Use of article 87 -- Collateral reforms -- Overview of the reforms

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