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Jerome Blum, Lord and Peasant in Russia From the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 1961).

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CONTENTS Foreword Introduction KIEVAN RUSSIA The First Age of Expansion Peasant Communes and Private Landowners Estate Organization and Labor Force THE MONGOL ERA The Tatar Yoke: Age of Decline Landlords of the Mongol Era Black People and Landlords' Peasants Peasants, Slaves, and Peons THE l6TH AND 17TH CENTURIES A New Era of Economic Expansion Absolutism and Aristocracy Depression and Slow Recovery Landlords in an Age of Revolution Changes in the Seignioral Economy The Plight of the Peasantry The End of the Road THE LAST 150 YEARS OF SERFDOM Trade and Industry The Factory Labor Force Agriculture The Dvorianstvo Ascendancy Rich Noble, Poor Noble The Seignioral Economy Masters and Serfs Silent Obedience The Non-Seignioral Peasantry The Village Community Reformers, Rebels, and Abolitionists The End of an Age Some Conclusions and Generalizations Glossary List of Works Cited Index MAPS Russia in the 12th and Early 13th Centuries Russia at the End of the 16th Century European Russia in the 1850's

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AAE	Arkheograficheskaia Ekspeditsiia, Akty sobrannye v bibliotekakh i arkhivakh Rossiiskoi Imperii.
AI	Arkheograficheskaia Komissiia, Akty istoricheskie.
AIu	---------, Akty iuridicheskie.
AIuB	---------, Akty otnosiashchiesia do iuridicheskago byta drevnei Rossii.
ASEI	Akademiia Nauk, Institut Istorii, Akty sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi istorii severo-vostochnoi Rusi kontsa XIV- nachala XVI veka.
DAI	Arkheograficheskaia komissiia, Dopolneniia k aktam istoricheskim.
DDG	Dukhovnye i dogovornye gramoty velikikh i udel'nykh kniazei XIV-XVl vekov.
MGI	Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennykh Imushchestv.
MKP	Akademiia Nauk, Institut Istorii, Materialy po istorii krest'ianskoi promyshlennosti XVIII i pervoi poloviny XIX v.
PSRL	Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei.
PSZ	Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii.
SGGD	Sobranie gosudarstvennykh gramot i dogovorov.
SIRO	Sbornik Imperatorskago Russkago Istoricheskago Obshchestva.
SZ	Svod zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii.