4. Serf Diet in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 6
3. 1. Did Russia’s Emancipated Serfs Really Pay Too Much for Too Little Land? Statistical Anomalies and Long-Tailed Distributions 7
4. 2. On Good Numbers and Bad: Malthus, Population Trends, and Peasant Standard of Living in Late Imperial Russia 42
5. 3. Serfs in Imperial Russia Demographic Insights 84
6. 4. Serf Diet in Nineteenth-Century Russia 110
7. 5. Famine, Disease, and Mortality Patterns in the Parish of Borshevka, Russia, 1830-1912 138
8. 6. The Banking Crisis, Peasant Reform, and Economic Development in Russia, 1857-1861 163
9. 7. The Tax Censuses and the Decline of the Serf Population in Imperial Russia, 1833-1858 199
10. 8. Tall Tales: Anthropometric Measures of Well-Being in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, 1821-1960 231
11. 9. Bridewealth, Dowry, and Socioeconomic Differentiation in Rural Russia 245
12. 10. The Serf Economy, the Peasant Family, and the Social Order 272
13. 11. The Great Reformers and the World They Did Not Know: Drafting the Emancipation Legislation in Russia, 1858-61 285
14. Index 320