Russia on the Move thru Palgrave Macmillan 2022 Hardback 9783030892845

Like New Conditon. 544 Pages by Sylvia Sztern, 6x8.75x1.25 inches. Synopsis "Railroads and the Exodus from Compulsory Collectivism, 1861–1914 (Studies in Economic Transition). This book explores the impact of railroads on 19thcentury 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,..." 106-01-18-25-01