Peasant Agriculture in Pre-Reform Kostroma and Kazan' Provinces

Abstract

ALISON K. SMITH (Urbana, IL, U. S. A.) PEASANT AGRICULTURE IN PRE-REFORM KOSTROMA AND KAZAN' PROVINCES* - In Russia, the early nineteenth century saw a confusion of terms corre- sponding to the English word agriculture. Many works used the term sel'skoe khoziaistvo, which might best be translated as "rural economy," as a general, catch-all term for agriculture. Others used the terms zemlepashestvo or zem- ledelie, both of which include the root for "land," or khlebopashestvo, based on the root for "grain." A definition of one of these terms was likely simply to refer to one of the other terms, as