Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry : Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries.
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- 9780253030139
- 306.85000000000002
- HQ503.B874 2017
Cover -- RUSSIAN PEASANT WOMEN WHO REFUSED TO MARRY -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: What Is the Opposite of Eureka? -- 1 The Moral Economy of Russian Serf Marriage, 1580s-1750s: Serf Marriage Unregulated -- 2 Nobles Discover Peasant Women's Marriage Aversion -- 3 The Outer Limits of Female Marriage Aversion: Kuplia Parish in the Eighteenth Century -- 4 Kuplia Parish, 1830-50: Demographic Crisis and the Resumption of Marriage -- 5 Spasovites: The Covenant of Despair -- 6 Baki: Resistance to Marriage on a Forest Frontier -- 7 Steksovo and Sergei Mikhailovich Golitsyn: Marriage Aversion in a Context of Prosperity -- Inconclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
In this act of defiance, this group of socially, politically, and economically subordinated peasants went beyond traditional acts of resistance and reaction.
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