Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables and Figures xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Russian Terms xvii
6. STATES OF OBLIGATION 1
7. Introduction. A Short History of Taxes: Russia and the World from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries 3
8. PART 1. People, Places, Things: The Old Regime, Economic Knowledge, and the Coming of the New Order
9. 1. The Fiscal Instruments of Regime Change from the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries 27
10. 2. Three Tax Reforms, Three Visions of the Polity 55
11. Part 2. The Politics of Visibility, the Technologies of Intimacy: Taxes and the Remaking of Urban and Commercial Russia
12. 3. Wealth in Motion: New Money, New Taxes, and a New Bureaucracy 87
13. 4. Systematic Intimacy: Business Taxes and the Disciplining of Commercial Russia 126
14. 5. Mass Taxation in the Age of the Individual: The New Personal Taxation in Russia and the World 151
15. 6. The Income Tax as Modern Government: Assessment, Self-Assessment, and Mutual Surveillance 174
16. Part 3. The Politics of Obscurity: Peasant Taxes, Excises, and the Vodka Monopoly to 1917
17. 7. Everyone and No One: Indirect Taxes and the Vodka Monopoly to 1917 207
18. 8. The Peasant and the Fisc: The State Budget and the Persistence of Collective Tax Apportionment 237
19. 9. The Local Practices of Peasant Taxation 257
20. Part 4. The State and Revolution, the State and Evolution: Fiscal Practices and a New Regime, 1917–30
21. 10. Soviet Russia and the Continuing History of the Russian State 295
22. 11. The Meanings of Utopia: Taxes, Urban Unities, and the Several Assaults on Peasant Separateness, 1917–21 306
23. 12. The Economy of Licences: Taxes and the New Economic Policy 333
24. Afterword. Russia, Socialism, and the Modern State 347
25. Notes 351
26. Bibliography 439
27. Index 471