 Individualism and Collectivism: Measuring the Transition to Modernity in Tsarist Russian Peasant Society, Penza Province, 1913Sylvia Sztern ()
Chapter Chapter 10 in Russia on the Move, 2022, pp 401-443 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Here I introduce an often-overlooked production factor, a vital one at that—human dignity as the determinant of human performance. The aspect of perceived personal human dignity that unleashes creative productive performance is a socioeconomic choice driven by the individual’s access to information and her or his ability to communicate and voluntarily organize. In a peasant society, spatial mastery and the acquisition of literacy and education are the means to the perception of human dignity, manifesting a structural change that heralds the transition to modernity. I support my argument empirically by presenting regressions of literate wage labor in relation to the population of Russian peasants in the post-emancipation transition of landholding (the dependent variable) from the collectivistic to individualistic. The changeover to individualism is a conceptual proxy for creative risk-taking that indicates a measure of reduced degradation. My data originate in the 1913 statistics of the zemstvo (rural self-government) of Russia’s Penza Province. Date: 2022 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:stuchp:978-3-030-89285-2_10 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89285-2_10 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Studies in Economic Transition from Palgrave Macmillan |
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