| Titre | Government, Jews, peasants, and land in post-emancipation Russia [The pre-emancipation background; stirrings and limits of reform] | |
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| Auteur | Hans Rogger | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 17, no 1, janvier-mars 1976 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 5-25 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Hans Rogger, Government, Jews, peasants, and land in post-emancipation Russia.
In the vast body of legislation that governed Imperial Russia's treatment of its Jewish population, nothing was adhered to with more persistence or stringency than the laws, rules and regulations restricting the rights of Jews to live, as well as to own or lease land, in the rural districts of the country. Even when the upheaval of war made necessary the abandonment of the Pale of Settlement — that prime source and symbol of the inferior status of the Jews — the countryside remained closed to them. A discriminatory policy which was so sharply focused and so long maintained had to be rooted in more than traditional prejudices, the more so since it conflicted on occasion with the fiscal interests of the state and more often with those of the landed gentry. Our investigation concludes that it is in the nexus between the Jewish and the agrarian problems — that is, in the way in which these problems were perceived (and related) by Russian officials — that the explanation for their tenacious resistance to expanding Jewish rights in the countryside must be sought. Anti-Jewish bias joined with a paternalistic and fearful attitude toward the peasantry to place severe limits on Jewish emancipation and to rationalize the maintenance of legal discrimination. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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