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The inventory reform and peasant unrest in right-bank Ukraine in 1847-48

Moon, D.

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D. Moon



Abstract

In 1847-48, the Imperial Russian government attempted to address both the problem of the unreliable Roman Catholic Polish nobility of right-bank Ukraine and the question of the future of serfdom in the region. However, the implementation of compulsory estate inventories, which were intended to protect the largely Orthodox Ukrainian peasantry from being oppressed by their owners, served only to increase tensions. The reform provoked over three hundred peasant disturbances. This article analyses the disturbances and their aftermath on the basis of archival research in St Petersburg, Moscow and Kiev as well as published sources.

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Moon, D. (2001). The inventory reform and peasant unrest in right-bank Ukraine in 1847-48. Slavonic and East European Review, 79(4), 653-697

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Oct 1, 2001
Deposit Date May 30, 2008
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Slavonic and East European Review
Print ISSN 0037-6795
Electronic ISSN 2222-4327
Publisher Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 79
Issue 4
Pages 653-697
Keywords Imperial Russia, Empire, Serfdom, Polish question.
Publisher URL http://www.jstor.org/stable/4213321

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