Russian Village Households
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Russian serfs · Russian villages
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Serfs of the Russian Empire, emancipated in 1861
Those who remember that, twenty-five years ago, the Russian serfs were popularly supposed in England to be as much slaves as the negroes of a Mississippi planter, but nevertheless are aware that under the great measure of 1861 the serfs, and not the lords, obtained much the largest part of the land, may be prepared for the assertion that the villeins of the middle ages were never in the strict sen …
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Russian peasant villages practicing periodic redistribution of land, invoked as a parallel to Irish Gavelkind.
The principle was that each household of the village was entitled to a share of the village-lands proportioned to the number of adult males it contained.
It has been reserved for our own generation to witness the least unsatisfactory approach which has hitherto been made towards the settlement of this grave question in the great measures collectively known as the enfranchisement of the Russian serfs.