Teodor Shanin
Biographic Data
| ID | 83108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teodor Shanin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teodor |
| FAMILY NAME | Shanin |
| SIGNATURE | SHANIN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 504 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
“The Question of Ethics should be at the Core of Everything . . .”
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The incursions of extractivism
The commonplace notion of extractivism relates to the production of value through physically extractive processes (mining, oil extraction, certain kinds of agriculture, etc.) where value generation is necessarily temporary and generally followed by barrenness and an inability to sustainably reproduce livelihoods in the affected habitat. In this article we aim to rethink extractivism in more general, politico-economic terms, i.e. as a particular w…
Letters of Vera Zasulich and Karl Marx
This set of documents concerning Marx's exchange of letters with Vera Zasulich in February/March 1881, and first published in Russia in 1924 in Arkhiv K. Marksa i. F. Engel'sa, Volume 1, represents
Late Marx and Russian peasants
The peculiar puzzle of late Marx, i.e. the massive intellectual effort and total publishing silence of the last twelve years of his life, the affinity he showed then with the Russian revolutionary
Marxism and the vernacular revolutionary traditions
Marxism has been the name increasingly given by friend and foe to contemporary radical revolutionary movements in the last couple of centuries. That opens the seldom-asked question, what about the radical revolutionary movements and ideas which could not be so described? For them the collective term often used negatively was 'vulgar', or, less negative but still unacceptable to Marxists, 'utopian' and 'vernacular'. That last turn indicated sponta…
Forum
Ben WhiteThe idea for this discussion originated in a wooden cabin in the Dutch polders in the late summer of 2015. Harriet Friedmann responded enthusiastically to my observation that the Internati
The Rules of the Game
Rules of the Game
A Definição De Camponês
Este artigo examina o conceito de "camponês", argumentando que sua definição, ou a falta dela, tem implicações significativas para a teoria social e a análise política. Shanin explora as complexidades e nuances do termo, considerando tanto a necessidade de precisão conceitual quanto os perigos de uma categorização excessivamente rígida. Ele discute como o conceito de "camponês" se relaciona com o pensamento marxista e como evoluiu ao longo do tem…
Chayanov's treble death and tenuous resurrection
The paper presents Chayanov's 'Theory of Vertical Cooperation' as the main conceptual alternative to Stalinist collectivisation of the 1930s. It also brings back the drama of physical and intellectual destruction of the brilliant Russian school of agrarian economists 1890-1920s who paid the price for opposition to the 1930's attack on the peasant majority of the Russian population. It then proceeds to the social and political roots of ideological…
Soviet Sociology Looked Like Double-Humped Camel
Defining Peasants
Defining Peasants
A agricultura soviética e a perestroika
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Victor Danilov, A Profile of a Historian-Discoverer Get access Teodor Shanin Teodor Shanin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1, Spring 1990, Pages 134–135, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/29.1.134 Published: 01 March 1990
The Question of Socialism
The Question of Socialism: A Development Failure or an Ethical Defeat? Get access Teodor Shanin Teodor Shanin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 30, Issue 1, Autumn 1990, Pages 68–74, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/30.1.68 Published: 01 October 1990
Soviet Economic Crisis
By now the gap between the economic and the political advance of perestroika in the Soviet Union has reached a point where its most evident contradictions are clear to all: empty shelves and a parliament the like of which the country has never seen (and nobody could imagine), shortage of soap in the capital city of a superpower and open debates on the privileges of the party bureaucracy and on the Ribentrop-Molotov Pact. It is also clear that the…
Soviet Agriculture and Perestroika
Ethnicity in the Soviet Union
Social facts and policies can be understood only in light of our own perceptions. This holds true with a vengeance where ethnicity, nationhood, or nationalism are concerned. All through the twentieth century this syndromecum-terminological chain has played an extensive, puzzling and usually unpredicted part in structuring social life and political action. New ethnic identities (for example, Tanzania'ism or Indonesian'ism) with their related desig…
The Roots of Otherness
Introduction to Aganbegyan
The Soviet Union is going through its most radical transformation since the 1930s or, arguably (indeed, as argued by its leaders), since the 1917 Revolution. Many ‘impossibles’ become possible overnight. There has been a rapidly broadening political involvement of different social forces: administrators and officers, artists and writers
Expoliary Economies
Peasant Economy and Peasant Revolution at the Turn of the Century
This article challenges the prevailing views of peasant economy and revolution at the turn of the century, arguing against both the "immiseration" thesis and the "autonomy" thesis. The authors contend that neither economic decline nor a separate peasant sphere adequately explains peasant unrest. Instead, they propose a more nuanced approach that considers the complex interplay between peasant communities and the larger society, including the stat…
Soviet Theories of Ethnicity
All through the twentieth century the significance of ‘ethnicity’ in the structuring of social life and in setting patterns of political action has been extensive and usually unpredicted. Neither its treatment by 19th-century ‘rationalists’ as a retrograde piece of barbarism nor its biological-racial explanations by their ‘romantic’ foes
Late Marx and the Russian Road
The incursions of extractivism
The commonplace notion of extractivism relates to the production of value through physically extractive processes (mining, oil extraction, certain kinds of agriculture, etc.) where value generation is necessarily temporary and generally followed by barrenness and an inability to sustainably reproduce livelihoods in the affected habitat. In this article we aim to rethink extractivism in more general, politico-economic terms, i.e. as a particular w…
The nature and logic of the peasant economy 1
This article discusses the major specific aspects of a general type of peasant economy: the family farm production-consumption unit, the village as an economic organisation, the market and money in the peasant economy, the political economy of peasant societies. It concludes with an examination of the differing ideas of analysts who agree on the existence of a specific peasant economy but disagree on the relative importance of its characteristics…
Late Marx and the Russian Road
Forum
Ben WhiteThe idea for this discussion originated in a wooden cabin in the Dutch polders in the late summer of 2015. Harriet Friedmann responded enthusiastically to my observation that the Internati
The nature and logic of the peasant economy-II
The following Part II of this paper is devoted to the diversity of peasant economies, focusing on the typical patterns of change included under the umbrella term of 'modernisation'. It reviews in these terms the aspects of the peasant economy outlined in Part I. The final Part III turns to agrarian policies and the impact of state intervention on peasant economies. It discusses the aims of such interventions i.e. land reform and the major program…
The Awkward Class
Chayanov's treble death and tenuous resurrection
The paper presents Chayanov's 'Theory of Vertical Cooperation' as the main conceptual alternative to Stalinist collectivisation of the 1930s. It also brings back the drama of physical and intellectual destruction of the brilliant Russian school of agrarian economists 1890-1920s who paid the price for opposition to the 1930's attack on the peasant majority of the Russian population. It then proceeds to the social and political roots of ideological…
The Peasantry as a Political Factor
This article examines the peasantry's role as a political factor, arguing against the prevailing view of peasants as inherently conservative and apolitical. Shanin challenges this notion by highlighting historical examples of peasant uprisings and rebellions, demonstrating their capacity for political action. He explores the conditions under which peasants become politically active, emphasizing the importance of social cohesion, leadership, and t…
Basic Concepts of Rural Sociology
Peasants and Peasant Societies
This introduction to "Peasants and Peasant Societies: Selected Readings" discusses the challenges and complexities of defining 'peasant' and 'peasantry.' Loizos and Shanin argue against simplistic or romanticized views, emphasizing the diversity of peasant experiences and the importance of understanding them within specific historical and social contexts. They highlight the book's focus on the peasant's relationship to land, family, community, an…
Peasantry
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Defining Peasants
A Definição De Camponês
Este artigo examina o conceito de "camponês", argumentando que sua definição, ou a falta dela, tem implicações significativas para a teoria social e a análise política. Shanin explora as complexidades e nuances do termo, considerando tanto a necessidade de precisão conceitual quanto os perigos de uma categorização excessivamente rígida. Ele discute como o conceito de "camponês" se relaciona com o pensamento marxista e como evoluiu ao longo do tem…
Defining Peasants
Late Marx and Russian peasants
The peculiar puzzle of late Marx, i.e. the massive intellectual effort and total publishing silence of the last twelve years of his life, the affinity he showed then with the Russian revolutionary
Ethnicity in the Soviet Union
Social facts and policies can be understood only in light of our own perceptions. This holds true with a vengeance where ethnicity, nationhood, or nationalism are concerned. All through the twentieth century this syndromecum-terminological chain has played an extensive, puzzling and usually unpredicted part in structuring social life and political action. New ethnic identities (for example, Tanzania'ism or Indonesian'ism) with their related desig…
Class and revolution
Letters of Vera Zasulich and Karl Marx
This set of documents concerning Marx's exchange of letters with Vera Zasulich in February/March 1881, and first published in Russia in 1924 in Arkhiv K. Marksa i. F. Engel'sa, Volume 1, represents
Marxism and the vernacular revolutionary traditions
Marxism has been the name increasingly given by friend and foe to contemporary radical revolutionary movements in the last couple of centuries. That opens the seldom-asked question, what about the radical revolutionary movements and ideas which could not be so described? For them the collective term often used negatively was 'vulgar', or, less negative but still unacceptable to Marxists, 'utopian' and 'vernacular'. That last turn indicated sponta…
Expoliary Economies
Marx, Marxism and the Agrarian Question
Volume One of Marx's Capital represented both the peak of Classical Political Economy and its most radical critique. The strength of Capital lay in its systematic, comprehensive, critical, historically sophisticated and empirically substantiated presentation of the way a newly created type of economy the contemporary capitalist economy of Great Britain had worked in one society. Of paramount significance is the more general use such a model offer…
The peasants are coming
The third stage
The Nature and Change of Peasant Economies1
THE NATURE AND CHANGE OF PEASANT ECONOMIESPart I presents a general type of peasant economy. It discusses the major specific aspects of this: the family farm production-consumption unit, the village as an economic organization, the market and money in the peasant economy, the political economy of peasant societies. It ends with a conceptual differentiation of the scholars sharing the assumption of a specific peasant economy but divided over the h…
Socio‐economic mobility and the rural history of Russia 1905–30
The Peasantry as a Political Factor
This article examines the peasantry's role as a political factor, arguing against the prevailing view of peasants as inherently conservative and apolitical. Shanin challenges this notion by highlighting historical examples of peasant uprisings and rebellions, demonstrating their capacity for political action. He explores the conditions under which peasants become politically active, emphasizing the importance of social cohesion, leadership, and t…
Class and revolution
Socio‐economic mobility and the rural history of Russia 1905–30
Peasantry
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The Awkward Class. Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society
The Awkward Class
Basic Concepts of Rural Sociology
Peasants and Peasant Societies
This introduction to "Peasants and Peasant Societies: Selected Readings" discusses the challenges and complexities of defining 'peasant' and 'peasantry.' Loizos and Shanin argue against simplistic or romanticized views, emphasizing the diversity of peasant experiences and the importance of understanding them within specific historical and social contexts. They highlight the book's focus on the peasant's relationship to land, family, community, an…
Units of Sociological Analysis
Analytical methodologies assume 'resolution into simple elements' as a necessary preliminary stage of scholarly investigation. They explicitly, or more often implicitly accept, therefore, that the conclusions reached reflect not only the phenomena analysed, but also the applied system of analytical subdivision. The paper explores and compares the main systems of analysis in current sociology: institutional, class and communal. It suggests a taxon…
The Rules of the Game
The Nature and Change of Peasant Economies1
THE NATURE AND CHANGE OF PEASANT ECONOMIESPart I presents a general type of peasant economy. It discusses the major specific aspects of this: the family farm production-consumption unit, the village as an economic organization, the market and money in the peasant economy, the political economy of peasant societies. It ends with a conceptual differentiation of the scholars sharing the assumption of a specific peasant economy but divided over the h…
The nature and logic of the peasant economy 1
This article discusses the major specific aspects of a general type of peasant economy: the family farm production-consumption unit, the village as an economic organisation, the market and money in the peasant economy, the political economy of peasant societies. It concludes with an examination of the differing ideas of analysts who agree on the existence of a specific peasant economy but disagree on the relative importance of its characteristics…
The nature and logic of the peasant economy-II
The following Part II of this paper is devoted to the diversity of peasant economies, focusing on the typical patterns of change included under the umbrella term of 'modernisation'. It reviews in these terms the aspects of the peasant economy outlined in Part I. The final Part III turns to agrarian policies and the impact of state intervention on peasant economies. It discusses the aims of such interventions i.e. land reform and the major program…
Rules of the Game
Burns and Saul Social Theory and Economic Change (1967) Hb: 0-415-26495-2 Cherns et al Social Science and Government: Policies and Problems (1972) Hb: 0-415-26496-0 Collins The Use of Models in the Social Sciences (1976) Hb: 0-415-26497-9 de Kadt and Williams Sociology and Development (1974) Hb: 0-415-26498-7 Friend et al Public Planning (1974) Hb: 0-415-26499-5 Jones Immigration and Social Policy in Britain (1977) Hb: 0-415-26500-2 Parkin The So…
Promysly(Russian)
The Awkward Class
A World Without Rural Sociology
The third stage
The Sociology of 'Developing Societies
The peasants are coming
Marx, Marxism and the Agrarian Question
Volume One of Marx's Capital represented both the peak of Classical Political Economy and its most radical critique. The strength of Capital lay in its systematic, comprehensive, critical, historically sophisticated and empirically substantiated presentation of the way a newly created type of economy the contemporary capitalist economy of Great Britain had worked in one society. Of paramount significance is the more general use such a model offer…
Introduction to the Sociology of “Developing Societies”
Introduction to the sociology of "developing societies"
Defining Peasants
A Requiem for the Liberal Tradition
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