On Missing the Point

In responding to G. Hamburg's comment, it is necessary to reiterate briefly the argument that I presented in my article on the crisis in Russian agriculture at the end of the nineteenth century. I began with the premise that scholarly opinion-contemporary, Soviet, and especially Western-espouses the proposition that peasant husbandry was experiencing a deepening crisis as the last century came to a close. Scholars have argued that peasant well-being was declining steadily, especially in the 1890s relative to previous decades. After providing a definition of what the term "agricultural crisis" means, I proceeded to analyze what I considered to be the crucial indexes used to support the crisis hypothesis

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• The Crisis in Russian Agriculture at the End of the Nineteenth Century

  Open Access•James Y Simms•Slavic Review•1977

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• The Crisis in Russian Agriculture

  Open Access•G M Hamburg•Slavic Review•1978

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