Enserfment Russian Peasant

by R.E.F. Smith

In 1649 a Code of Laws was issued in Moscow completing, at least in law, the process of enserfment of the Russian peasantry. This book illustrates this process with fifty-six documents of the twelfth to seventeenth centuries. They relate mainly to the central and northern area of European Russia known, in the sixteenth century, as Muscovy. An introductory note prefaces each document, placing it in context and giving its source. An introduction partly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521089417
• ISBN13: 9780521089418
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"