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Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry : Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European StudiesPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253030139
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to MarryDDC classification:
  • 306.85000000000002
LOC classification:
  • HQ503.B874 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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