The Economics Of The Russian Village PDF Download

Excerpt from The Economics, Vol. 2: Russian Village Certainly this juvenile movement must, under any circum stances, have inevitably proved a failure. Defeat was, how ever, accelerated by the merciless persecution of the Govern ment. The events which followed are only too well known for it to be necessary for me to dwell on them. The final de feat of revolutionary peasantism after 1881, brought into the foreground a peaceable peasantist movement that excited little attention, but which will certainly be'of great consequence for the coming development of Russia. Having suffered ship wreck in their revolutionary course, the peasantists came to the conclusion that scientific investigation of the economics of the village was the most essential preliminary for any rational political action. And scores of former revolutionists zealously took part in the statistical investigation started by the zemstvos (provincial assemblies). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.