*Aversion to dissent seems to be universal among peasants: Robert Redfield notes that “villages do not like factions” (Little Community, Uppsala-Stockholm, 1955, 44).
†Calculated on the basis of figures in Ezhegodnik Rossii, 1910 g. (St. Petersburg, 1911), 258–63. Most of that private land was owned by associations and villages rather than by individual households.
*A. A. Kofod, Russkoe zemleustroistvo, 2nd. ed. (St. Petersburg, 1914), 23. As early as the 1880s, Leroy-Beaulieu says that he met with universal disenchantment with the commune: Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians, II (New York-London, 1898), 45–46.
*Under a last-minute provision inserted into the Emancipation Edict, a peasant who did not want to pay could take a fraction of the allotment due to him free of charge. Such allotments were called otrezki.
*Friedrich Ratzel, Anthropogeographie, II (Stuttgart, 1891), 257–65. If one recalculates Ratzel’s figures, given in leagues, a country with Russia’s climate should support 23 inhabitants per square kilometer.
†Recent researches indicate that the population growth in pre-revolutionary Russia may have been even higher than believed at the time. The current estimate places the excess of births over deaths in 1900 at 16.5 per 1,000 and rising. In European Russia it is estimated to have been 18.4 (1897–1916) and in the Lower Volga region was high as 20: S. I. Bruk and V. M. Kabuzan in ISSSR, No. 3 (1980), 81. H. J. Habakkuk believes that partible (or “equal division”) inheritance promotes population growth in that it encourages marriage: Journal of Economic History, XV (1955), 5–6.
‡The government estimated that between 1861 and 1901 the rural population in the Empire grew from 52 to 86.6 million and that the annual accretion of rural inhabitants in the closing years of the nineteenth century came to 1.5 million: Alexander Kornilov in Josef Melnik, Russen über Russland (Frankfurt, 1906), 404. This was the figure used by Stolypin in 1907: see below, Chapter 5. The margin of error in all Russian statistics, however, is wide and these figures do not make allowance either for non-rural inhabitants or for infant mortality.
*There were also 7 to 8 million persons occupied in household industries (kustarnaia promyshlennost’), which operated largely to supply the peasants with consumer durables: P. A. Khromov, Ekonomika Rossii perioda promyshlennogo kapitalizma (Moscow, 1963), 105. The majority of the persons who worked in these industries did so at times free from field work and they continued to rely primarily on agricultural income.
†The reliability of these figures has been questioned, however, on the grounds that they make no allowance for peasants who had left the land for the cities and industrial centers although nominally still counted as members of the commune: A. S. Ermolov, Nash zemel’nyi vopros (St. Petersburg, 1906), 62.
*Ivan Oserow (Ozerov) in Melnik, Russen, 211–12. From the statistics provided by A. S. Nifontov (Zernovoe proizvodstvo Rossii vo vtoroipolovine XIX veka, Moscow, 1974, 310), it transpires that even after rising grain exports are taken into account, the amount of grain domestically available per capita in the 1890s was larger than it had been twenty years earlier; in other words, food production outpaced population growth. Cf. James Y. Simms, Jr., in SR, XXXVI, No. 3 (1977), 310.
*A. S. Ermolov, Nash zemel’nyi vopros (St. Petersburg, 1906), 2, 5. Russia, in fact, lagged far behind all European countries in agricultural yields. “Intensive” agriculture also meant adoption of technical crops, for instance, hemp and flax, which brought in more income.
*Peasants into Frenchmen (Stanford, Calif., 1982), 3, 5, 48, 155–56. “La patrie,” the author quotes a French priest, “a fine word … that thrills everyone except the peasant”: Ibid., 100. On this subject, see further Theodore Zeldin, France: 1848–1945 (Oxford, 1977), II, 3.
†Robert Redfield, Peasant Society and Culture (Chicago-London, 1956), 42–64. In his study of the acculturation of the French peasantry, Weber lists as “agencies of change” roads, participation in the political process (“politization”), migration, military service, schools, and the church.
*Ermolov, Zemel’nyi vopros, 25. The discrepancy is due to the fact that official statistics counted as landlords’ property the land which they leased to peasants.
