The Development of the Peasant Commune in Russia

Peter Toumanoff

The Journal of Economic History, 1981, vol. 41, issue 1, 179-184

Abstract: This article argues that the development of the peasant commune in Russia, with its periodic repartition of serf holdings, hierarchy of authority, and dependence on corvee as a form of obligation, was a consequence of enslavement of the Russian peasant. These features of the commune are seen as reducing the costs of both monitoring labor effort, and maintaining the productive capacity of the serf. The chronology of their development and their association with the more fertile land of European Russia and with private as opposed to state ownership provide evidence for the argument.

Date: 1981
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