书目名称 | Russia on the Move |
副标题 | Railroads and the Ex |
编辑 | Sylvia Sztern |
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概述 | Details the impact modernization and technology had on the economic attitudes of late Tsarist Russia.Utilises mutual-dependence models of land cultivation to highlight the emergence of voluntary coope |
丛书名称 | Studies in Economic Transition |
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描述 | .This book explores the impact of railroads on 19.th.century 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 |
出版日期 | Book 2022 |
关键词 | Transitional economics; Comparative economics; Late imperial Russia; Measuring the transition to modern |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89285-2 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-89287-6 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-89285-2Series ISSN 2662-6675 Series E-ISSN 2662-6683 |
issn_series | 2662-6675 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |