Б Н Миронов
Biographic Data
| ID | 4165797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Б Н Миронов |
| GIVEN NAMES | Б Н |
| FAMILY NAME | Миронов |
| SIGNATURE | МИРОНОВ Б Н |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint-Petersburg Institute of History |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8559-0019 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Standard of Living in the Soviet Union According to Big Anthropometric Data
In modern science, the physical development of a person is considered as a reflection of the socio-economic and environmental conditions of his existence. As a result, anthropometric data have acquired a multifunctional purpose in science and social practice. A database of big anthropometric data in Russia was created during the implementation of the Russian Science Foundation project. It includes information on height, weight, body mass index, s…
Epochal Enhancing of the Biological Status of Russia’s Population in the 19th - 20th Centuries with Modern Auxology
In 2010-2024 Russian auxologists have expanded the scope of their research. Recently, they have considered height, weight, and body mass index as indirect or proxy indicators of wellbeing, a shift which allows them to identify epochal trends in the dynamics of the standard of living. The results obtained by auxologists confirmed existing conclusions about the upward secular trend of body size and, accordingly, about the epochal increase in the st…
The Ethnic Status of the Jewish People in the Soviet Union
The issue of the Jewish people in the USSR has been extensively examined in the scholarship. In Soviet historiography, the authors focused on the achievements of Soviet Jewish national policy, on overcoming the ethnic inequality of Jews, on their role in power structures and the elite, on their participation in the construction of a new socialist society. Most modern historians study the situation of Jews through the prism of discrimination in po…
The Opportunistic Nature of Soviet Jewish Policy
The Jewish policy of the Soviet leadership was inconsistent, cautious, ambivalent, and it was based primarily on practical considerations and specific circumstances. Suspicious, distrustful or wary attitudes towards Jews on the part of non-Jews were widespread throughout the entire Soviet period. However, as a rule, this was not the result of official antisemitism, Russophobia or any ethnophobia in its pure form. Jews were discriminated against i…
Everyday Anti-Semitism in the USSR
The article considers the phenomenon of everyday anti-Semitism based on mass statistical data on the elections to local Soviets of Workers' Deputies. The ethnic composition of deputies sheds light on the attitude of the population towards not only Jews, but also the national policy of the authorities. The author shows that the election results indicate persistent negative attitude of the population towards Jewish candidates and, accordingly, towa…
Cyclic Concepts of Russian History in Modern Historiography
In post-Soviet historiography, the concept of the cyclic pendulum, or inversion, of Russia’s development has become widespread. According to it, Russia, unlike the West, is characterized not by progressive, but by spasmodic pendulum development: progress is replaced by reaction, movement goes in a vicious circle. The article verifies four variants of the concept and makes conclusions about its strengths and weaknesses. Three most significant shor…
Travin D.Ya. Why Has Russia Lagged Behind? St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg at the Forefront of Demographic Transition in Russia
In post-reform Russia, a demographic transition began — a replacement of the traditional type of population reproduction with the modern one. A significant part of the population had rationalized demographic behavior; demographic indicators had improved; the efficiency of population reproduction had increased; intra-family relations had been humanized; and individual birth control had been developed — mainly in cities. The demographic transition …
Was the Orthodox Church in the Rearguard of the February Revolution
The article evaluates the second edition of M. A. Babkin's monograph “The Priesthood and the Kingdom” in the context of numerous reviews of the first edition. Most historians think that the Russian Orthodox Church was an uncomplaining tool in the hands of the state during the synodal period. According to Babkin, the leadership of the Orthodox Church was dissatisfied with its position, was burdened by state control and sought to gain self-governme…
The Salaries of Officials and Officers in the Russian Empire
This article analyzes changes in both the nominal and real salaries of Russian officials and officers. The study draws upon data concerning provincial administrations, which employed a significant portion of officials, and the infantry, in which most of the officer corps served, from the introduction of monetary salaries in 1763 (for officials) and in 1711 (for officers) to 1913. A table of the changes in nominal salaries was compiled from legisl…
De-Russification of Government as a Factor in the Disintegration of the USSR
In the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1990, the political inequality of the nationalities’ representation in institutions of governance was overcome, non-Russians’ participation in the power structures increased, and Russians’ role in administration correspondingly decreased. The increased non-Russian percentage in governance was mainly due to the introduction of the democratic principle in government formation, according to which ethnicities should p…
The Fate of the Jewish Diaspora in Post-soviet Russia (the Case of Saint Petersburg)
В постсоветской России еврейская диаспора быстро сокращалась под влиянием отрицательного естественного прироста населения, эмиграции и ассимиляции. Хорошее образование, высокое социальное положение и вестернизированность евреев способствовали снижению рождаемости, развитию ассимиляции и массовой эмиграции на Запад и в Израиль. Исход евреев из постсоветской России привел к тому, что негативные элементы, медленно копившиеся в течение последнего сто…
The Cognitive Abilities of the Russian Peasantry at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
In Russia of 1917, two-thirds of the male and female peasants age 10 and older had not had systematic schooling and were illiterate; the rest were able to read and do basic arithmetic. Only 0.1% of peasants studied in secondary or higher educational institutions. As a result, 99.9% of all peasants had a particular mode of thinking - concrete, situational, and directly related to sensations and actions. Mastery of the world in practical terms, thr…
The Policy of Russifying in Late Imperial Russia and its Failure
After the Great Reforms of the 1860s – 1870s the Russian government embarked on the construction of a modern nation-state and was faced with the need to unify all parts of the empire administratively, culturally, legally, and socially. The new ethno-confessional policy in Russian historiography is often called Russification because the order established after the Great Reforms in the Great Russian provinces served as a model for the transformatio…
Модернизация России В Xviii-Xx Вв. Как Конвергенционный Проект, "Социологические Исследования"
Модернизация Российской империи проходила по классическому европейскому сценарию. По целям и результатам советская модернизация явилась ее продолжением, по одним параметрам отличаясь от классической западной модели (доминирование государства над обществом, коллектива над личностью, ограничение индивидуальной свободы, централизация, бюрократизация, тотальный дирижизм), по другим будучи на нее похожа (индустриализация, урбанизация, демократизация с…
The Challenge of Space and the Technologies of Management of Ethno-Confessional Diversity in the Russian Empire
Territorial expansion led to the fact that Russia gradually developed into a multiethnic empire in which the titular nation was the minority. Long-term preservation of the unity of the multiethnic and multiconfessional Russian empire is explained by the relatively flexible ethno-confessional policy of imperial ethno-paternalism, which respected the status quo of an attached territory and the population living upon it; cooperated extensively with …
Long-term Trends in the Development of the Family Structure in Christian Russia from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Various forms of family organization among Russian peasants and urban dwellers coexisted from the sixteenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The correlation of family types changed and was a function of circumstances and economic conditions. The available data indicate that from the middle of the sixteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, extended and multiple families predominated among peasants, though the relationsh…
The Russian Revolution of 1917 as a By-Product of Modernization
The application of modernization theory to an analysis of the Russian Revolution of 1917 shows it to have been a by-product of successful modernization. The conflict between tradition and modernity did not lead inexorably to the revolution but only created the potential for it, which became a reality due to he difficulties of wartime and the struggle for power between the opposition and the monarchy
Wages and Prices in Imperial Russia, 1703-1913
Russian Living Standards under the Tsars
The trend in mean height in the Russian province of Saratov is estimated for birth cohorts from 1755 to 1892 on the basis of newly gathered archival data and published sources. Heights fell in the late eighteenth century due an increasing burden of taxes and feudal dues. Stature increased slowly throughout the nineteenth century, offering no support for the hypothesis of an agrarian crisis that provoked or followed from the abolition of serfdom i…
Birth weight and physical stature in St. Petersburg
Response to Steven L. Hoch's “B. N. Mironov and His 'Demographic Processes and Problems'”
A forum on Boris Mironov's Russian and English editions of The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917 (2000) offers the comments of four scholars on different aspects of Mironov's work. David L. Ransel introduces the forum with a consideration of whether Russian and western historical scholarship has been or should be converging, and he reviews the Russian-language response to Mironov's book. William G. Wagner discusses Mironov's key conclu…
Response to Willard Sunderland's “Empire in Boris Mironov's Sotsial ́naia istoriia Rossii
A forum on Boris Mironov's Russian and English editions of The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917 (2000) offers the comments of four scholars on different aspects of Mironov's work. David L. Ransel introduces the forum with a consideration of whether Russian and western historical scholarship has been or should be converging, and he reviews the Russian-language response to Mironov's book. William G. Wagner discusses Mironov's key conclu…
Response to William G. Wagner's “Law and the State in Boris Mironov's Sotsial ́naia istoriia Rossii
A forum on Boris Mironov's Russian and English editions of The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917 (2000) offers the comments of four scholars on different aspects of Mironov's work. David L. Ransel introduces the forum with a consideration of whether Russian and western historical scholarship has been or should be converging, and he reviews the Russian-language response to Mironov's book. William G. Wagner discusses Mironov's key conclu…
Tall Requirements and "Small" Reality
In my view, the skeptical comments of Steven L. Hoch, whether intentionally or not, undeservedly discredit human height data as an indicator of the physiological status and well-being of populations, and possibly represent the historiographical appearance of a postmodern intellectual ideology, whose representatives look with distrust on historical sources. Hoch repeats some traditional objections connected with data on height: 1) terminal height-…
The Russian Peasant Commune After the Reforms of the 1860s
In the 1860s the Russian government carried out a series of major reforms that had important consequences for key dimensions of Russian society-its economy, judiciary, local administration, army, censorship, and education. Historians have generally agreed that these reforms exerted a profound influence upon Russian historical development, but they have not arrived at an analogous consensus on how the reforms of the 1860s affected the general deve…
The Development of Literacy in Russia and the USSR from the Tenth to the Twentieth Centuries
The history of literacy in Russia may be divided into four periods: 1) the Kievan, from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries (before the Mongol invasion); 2) the medieval (Muscovite), from the middle of the thirteenth to the end of the seventeenth centuries; 3) the imperial, from the eighteenth century to 1917; and 4) the Soviet, after 1917. For each of these periods distinctive sources have been preserved that call for special handling and meth…
Russian Living Standards under the Tsars
The trend in mean height in the Russian province of Saratov is estimated for birth cohorts from 1755 to 1892 on the basis of newly gathered archival data and published sources. Heights fell in the late eighteenth century due an increasing burden of taxes and feudal dues. Stature increased slowly throughout the nineteenth century, offering no support for the hypothesis of an agrarian crisis that provoked or followed from the abolition of serfdom i…
Wages and Prices in Imperial Russia, 1703-1913
New Approaches to Old Problems
Scholars generally agree on the relationship between the physical stature, or height, of children and adults, and their quality of life, or their biological status, including diet, illnesses, intensity and conditions of work, availability of medical care, living conditions, psychological well-being, climate, water, air, and other environmental factors that have impinged on their lives prior to the point at which their height is measured. Genetic …
Tall Requirements and "Small" Reality
In my view, the skeptical comments of Steven L. Hoch, whether intentionally or not, undeservedly discredit human height data as an indicator of the physiological status and well-being of populations, and possibly represent the historiographical appearance of a postmodern intellectual ideology, whose representatives look with distrust on historical sources. Hoch repeats some traditional objections connected with data on height: 1) terminal height-…
Bureaucratic- or Self-Government
While the topic of local government in Russia before the reforms of the 1860s was popular in prerevolutionary historiography, it did not attract much attention from Soviet historians; historians in the west have shown greater interest in the problem. The necessity of using a narrow, class approach forced Soviet historians to interpret the problems of local government in a simplistic and one-sided fashion. The a priori assumption that an independe…
Consequences of the price revolution in eighteenth-century Russia
Everyday Anti-Semitism in the USSR
The article considers the phenomenon of everyday anti-Semitism based on mass statistical data on the elections to local Soviets of Workers' Deputies. The ethnic composition of deputies sheds light on the attitude of the population towards not only Jews, but also the national policy of the authorities. The author shows that the election results indicate persistent negative attitude of the population towards Jewish candidates and, accordingly, towa…
Long-term Trends in the Development of the Family Structure in Christian Russia from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Various forms of family organization among Russian peasants and urban dwellers coexisted from the sixteenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The correlation of family types changed and was a function of circumstances and economic conditions. The available data indicate that from the middle of the sixteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, extended and multiple families predominated among peasants, though the relationsh…
El efecto de la educacion sobre el crecimiento economico
El problema de la relación entre educación y crecimiento económico es muy pertinente a la situación socioeconómica actual de la URSS. El pais con el nivel más alto, o al menos uno de los más altos, de educación entre las naciones desarrolladas tiene uno de los más bajos en términos de renta national per capita . ¿Es ello paradójico? Sí, si somos de la opinión de que la renta nacional responde de modo inmediato y directo a la educación profesional…
Khlebnye tseny v Rossii za dva stoletiia (XVIII-XIX vv)
Soziale Struktur Und Soziale Mobilität Der Russischen Bauernschaft Vom 16. Bis 19. Jahrhundert
Article SOZIALE STRUKTUR UND SOZIALE MOBILITÄT DER RUSSISCHEN BAUERNSCHAFT VOM 16. BIS 19. JAHRHUNDERT was published on April 1, 1976 in the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (volume 17, issue 4)
In Search of Hidden Information
The Russian Peasant Commune After the Reforms of the 1860s
In the 1860s the Russian government carried out a series of major reforms that had important consequences for key dimensions of Russian society-its economy, judiciary, local administration, army, censorship, and education. Historians have generally agreed that these reforms exerted a profound influence upon Russian historical development, but they have not arrived at an analogous consensus on how the reforms of the 1860s affected the general deve…
Le mouvement des prix des céréales en Russie du XVIIIesiècle au début du XXesiècle
Le prix des céréales avait une importance exceptionnelle dans l'histoire de la Russie, pays essentiellement agraire où, au début du XXesiècle, environ 85% de l'ensemble de la population vivait encore à la campagne. La prospérité de millions de gens et la politique économique du gouvernement dépendaient souvent des fluctuations du prix des grains. C'est pourquoi la Russie a été précisément le premier pays d'Europe où fut organisée la collecte mens…
Eighteenth-Century Economic History
Khlebnye tseny v Rossii za dva stoletiia (XVIII-XIX vv)
Poverty of Thought or Necessary Caution
El efecto de la educacion sobre el crecimiento economico
El problema de la relación entre educación y crecimiento económico es muy pertinente a la situación socioeconómica actual de la URSS. El pais con el nivel más alto, o al menos uno de los más altos, de educación entre las naciones desarrolladas tiene uno de los más bajos en términos de renta national per capita . ¿Es ello paradójico? Sí, si somos de la opinión de que la renta nacional responde de modo inmediato y directo a la educación profesional…
The Development of Literacy in Russia and the USSR from the Tenth to the Twentieth Centuries
The history of literacy in Russia may be divided into four periods: 1) the Kievan, from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries (before the Mongol invasion); 2) the medieval (Muscovite), from the middle of the thirteenth to the end of the seventeenth centuries; 3) the imperial, from the eighteenth century to 1917; and 4) the Soviet, after 1917. For each of these periods distinctive sources have been preserved that call for special handling and meth…
Les villes de Russie entre l'Occident et l'Orient (1750-1850)
La ville préindustrielle russe a déjà fait l'objet de multiples recherches. Adoptant l'opinion des historiens russes d'avant la révolution, la majorité des historiens occidentaux estime que les villes russes diffèrent radicalement de leurs homologues occidentales et les classe, comme Max Weber, dans le type oriental. A l'inverse, leurs collègues soviétiques affirment qu'à aucune étape de leur développement, les villes russes ne se sont fondamenta…
Consequences of the price revolution in eighteenth-century Russia
Much Ado About Nothing
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Bureaucratic- or Self-Government
While the topic of local government in Russia before the reforms of the 1860s was popular in prerevolutionary historiography, it did not attract much attention from Soviet historians; historians in the west have shown greater interest in the problem. The necessity of using a narrow, class approach forced Soviet historians to interpret the problems of local government in a simplistic and one-sided fashion. The a priori assumption that an independe…
Peasant Popular Culture and the Origins of Soviet Authoritarianism
Istoriia v tsifrakh
Tall Requirements and "Small" Reality
In my view, the skeptical comments of Steven L. Hoch, whether intentionally or not, undeservedly discredit human height data as an indicator of the physiological status and well-being of populations, and possibly represent the historiographical appearance of a postmodern intellectual ideology, whose representatives look with distrust on historical sources. Hoch repeats some traditional objections connected with data on height: 1) terminal height-…
New Approaches to Old Problems
Scholars generally agree on the relationship between the physical stature, or height, of children and adults, and their quality of life, or their biological status, including diet, illnesses, intensity and conditions of work, availability of medical care, living conditions, psychological well-being, climate, water, air, and other environmental factors that have impinged on their lives prior to the point at which their height is measured. Genetic …
Response to Steven L. Hoch's “B. N. Mironov and His 'Demographic Processes and Problems'”
A forum on Boris Mironov's Russian and English editions of The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917 (2000) offers the comments of four scholars on different aspects of Mironov's work. David L. Ransel introduces the forum with a consideration of whether Russian and western historical scholarship has been or should be converging, and he reviews the Russian-language response to Mironov's book. William G. Wagner discusses Mironov's key conclu…
Response to Willard Sunderland's “Empire in Boris Mironov's Sotsial ́naia istoriia Rossii
A forum on Boris Mironov's Russian and English editions of The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917 (2000) offers the comments of four scholars on different aspects of Mironov's work. David L. Ransel introduces the forum with a consideration of whether Russian and western historical scholarship has been or should be converging, and he reviews the Russian-language response to Mironov's book. William G. Wagner discusses Mironov's key conclu…
Response to William G. Wagner's “Law and the State in Boris Mironov's Sotsial ́naia istoriia Rossii
A forum on Boris Mironov's Russian and English editions of The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917 (2000) offers the comments of four scholars on different aspects of Mironov's work. David L. Ransel introduces the forum with a consideration of whether Russian and western historical scholarship has been or should be converging, and he reviews the Russian-language response to Mironov's book. William G. Wagner discusses Mironov's key conclu…
Birth weight and physical stature in St. Petersburg
Russian Living Standards under the Tsars
The trend in mean height in the Russian province of Saratov is estimated for birth cohorts from 1755 to 1892 on the basis of newly gathered archival data and published sources. Heights fell in the late eighteenth century due an increasing burden of taxes and feudal dues. Stature increased slowly throughout the nineteenth century, offering no support for the hypothesis of an agrarian crisis that provoked or followed from the abolition of serfdom i…
Wages and Prices in Imperial Russia, 1703-1913
The Russian Revolution of 1917 as a By-Product of Modernization
The application of modernization theory to an analysis of the Russian Revolution of 1917 shows it to have been a by-product of successful modernization. The conflict between tradition and modernity did not lead inexorably to the revolution but only created the potential for it, which became a reality due to he difficulties of wartime and the struggle for power between the opposition and the monarchy
Long-term Trends in the Development of the Family Structure in Christian Russia from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Various forms of family organization among Russian peasants and urban dwellers coexisted from the sixteenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The correlation of family types changed and was a function of circumstances and economic conditions. The available data indicate that from the middle of the sixteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, extended and multiple families predominated among peasants, though the relationsh…
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