Title Liberal reform in an illiberal regime : the creation of private property in Russia, 1906-1915 / Stephen F. Williams

Published Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 320 pages) : illustrations, map Series Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 545 Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 545. Contents Introduction. 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. Reform provisions: a rough cut ; The results of the reforms ; The flow of applications over time ; Regional variation ; Variations in size of holdings converted or consolidated -- Purposes and pressure: issues of reform design. Red herrings ; "Administrative pressure" ; Biases in favor of title conversion and consolidation ; Title conversion as an impediment to consolidation ; Government insistence on form of consolidation ; Shortfalls in the rights granted -- The long-term implications. Productivity ; Short-term social stress ; Peasant acceptance in perspective: reversal and re-reversal in the Revolution: Siberian zemleustroistvo ; Gains: the soft variables ; Stifling the new property rights ; Prospects for liberal democracy from an illiberal regime's voluntary steps toward liberalism ; Coda: privatization of Russian agricultural land today Summary An examination of property rights reforms in Russia before the revolution reveals the advantages and pitfalls of liberal democracy in action, from a government that could be described as neither liberal nor democratic. The author analyzes whether truly liberal reform can be effectively established from above versus from the bottom up, or whether it is simply a product of exceptional historical circumstances Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index Notes Print version record Subject 880-01 Stolypin, Petr Arkadʹevich, 1862-1911 SUBJECT 880-01/(N Столыпин, Петр Аркадьевич, 1862-1911 Stolypin, Petr Arkadʹevich, 1862-1911 fast Subject Land reform -- Russia -- History -- 20th century Peasants -- Russia -- History -- 20th century Right of property -- Russia -- History -- 20th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- European. Land reform Peasants Right of property Agrarreform Privatgrundstück Grundeigentum Russia Russland Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2006000554 ISBN 9780817947231 081794723X 9780817947286 0817947280

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