(Good) land and freedom (for former serfs): Determinants of peasant unrest in European Russia, March–October 1917

Journal article

Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach, Dmitrii Kofanov
Slavic Review, vol. 76(3), 2017, pp. 710-721

DOI: 10.1017/slr.2017.179

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Finkel, E., Gehlbach, S., & Kofanov, D. (2017). (Good) land and freedom (for former serfs): Determinants of peasant unrest in European Russia, March–October 1917. Slavic Review, 76(3), 710–721. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2017.179

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Finkel, Evgeny, Scott Gehlbach, and Dmitrii Kofanov. “(Good) Land and Freedom (for Former Serfs): Determinants of Peasant Unrest in European Russia, March–October 1917.” Slavic Review 76, no. 3 (2017): 710–721.

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Finkel, Evgeny, et al. “(Good) Land and Freedom (for Former Serfs): Determinants of Peasant Unrest in European Russia, March–October 1917.” Slavic Review, vol. 76, no. 3, 2017, pp. 710–21, doi:10.1017/slr.2017.179.

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@article{finkel2017a,
  title = {(Good) land and freedom (for former serfs): Determinants of peasant unrest in European Russia, March–October 1917},
  year = {2017},
  issue = {3},
  journal = {Slavic Review},
  pages = {710-721},
  volume = {76},
  doi = {10.1017/slr.2017.179},
  author = {Finkel, Evgeny and Gehlbach, Scott and Kofanov, Dmitrii}
}

Abstract

What was the nature of geographic variation in peasant unrest during the Russian Revolution? What explains this variation? We discuss and compare two extant sources of information on peasant disturbances from March to October 1917, we illustrate geographic variation in the actions recorded by these sources, and we statistically identify determinants of this variation. We show that two factors robustly drive province-level variation in peasant unrest in 1917: soil quality and the historical prevalence of serfdom.