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Micro-Perspectives on Living Standards in Nineteenth-Century Russia [PDF]
In recent years economic historians have turned new attention to questions about standards of living in pre-revolutionary Russia. However, most of the studies to date have focused on a narrow range of measures for predominantly urban areas.
Steven Nafziger, Tracy Dennison
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The Historical Consciousness of Modern Russian Society. [PDF]
Andreev AL.
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The paper shows the role of Orenburg civil governor Egor Ivanovich Baranovsky in the assessment of Joseph Pavlovich Krechetovich. The work is based on the analysis of I.P. Krechetovichs monograph Peasant reform in the Orenburg Region (reform preparation), in which various aspects related to the preparation of the reform of the abolition of serfdom in ...
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Capital-skill complementarity and the emergence of labor emancipation
This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of ...
Ashraf, Quamrul H. +4 more
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War and endogenous democracy [PDF]
Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century occurred during or in the aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of international ...
Ticchi, Davide, Vindigni, Andrea
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Historical reflections on progress and tradition [PDF]
Reflecting on the tension between progressives and traditionalists in present-day Egypt, the author surveys comparable conflicts in the European past.
van Caenegem, Raoul
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Patrimonial archives of the Tambov landowners’ estates: the documentary heritage nationalization
We consider the potential of the Russian landowners’ estates patrimonial records management as a historical source for the features characteristic of the landlord economy development after the serfdom abolition.
R. M. Zhitin
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The abolition of serfdom was one of the most important of the great reforms of the Russian Empire carried out in the second half of the nineteenth century that sought to modernise its social and economic system. Its implementation was complicated due to social, cultural, and mental differences in different parts of the empire, although the reformers ...
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Slavery and human trafficking international law and the role of the World Bank [PDF]
This paper reviews the international legal framework applicable to the World Bank and member states on contemporary forms of slavery, in particular, trafficking. The Palermo trafficking protocol is specially analyzed.
Perez Solla, Maria Fernanda
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Мелкопоместное дворянство европейской России в контексте подготовки и реализации реформы отмены крепостного права [PDF]
Рассмотрение позиции правительства в отношении мелкопоместного дворянства в ходе подготовки и реализации реформы отмены крепостного праваyesБелгородский государственный ...
Истомина, И. В. +1 more
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