Urge to Mobilize [first edition]

Urge to Mobilize: Agrarian Reform in Russia, 1861-1930"Yaney focuses on the roots, implementation, and aftermath of the so-called Stolypin Land Reforms - the very first self-initiated agrarian reforms. Specifically, the Solypin Land Reforms proposed to convert subsistence agriculture into commercial farming, replace patriarchal social structures with communities of free citizens, and redivide the peasants' land so that each household would posses a single integral plot." CONTENTS: Preface; INTRODUCTION: The Purpose of this Book; A Brief Explanation of the Title; THE INFORMATION PROBLEM: Introduction; The Commission on Gubernia and Uezd Institutions; The Commission for Reforming the Volost Courts; The Values Commission; Eliminating the Soul Tax; Conclusions; THE BEGINNINGS OF ACTION, PART ONE: ENACTMENT OF THE STATURE ON LAND CAPTAINS: Introduction; The Nature of Government Action; The Lessons of Experience: Peasant Administrations Prior to 1880; The Debate on Peasant Administration, 1880-89; THE BEGINNINGS OF ACTION, PART TWO: THE LAND CAPTAINS AT WORK: The Disappearance of the Gentry; The Dwindling of Line-Over-Staff administration; Significance of the Land Captains; Successors of the Land Captains; THE CONTEXT OF THE STOLYPIN LAND REFORM: Introduction: The Official Reform; Problems of Reform; Confusion of Motive and Action in the Reform; ENACTMENT OF THE REFORM: Preliminary Investigations, 1902-5; The Enactors; The Government Commits Itself to Peasant Reform, 1903-5; The Enactment Process THE REFORM BEGINS: The Initial Reform Laws; Initial Establishment of the Reform Organization; Familiarization; The Peasant Bank and the Reform in 1907; The Land Captains at the Beginning of the Reform; EVOLUTION OF THE REFORM ORGANIZATION: The Committee for Land Settlement Affairs; The Uezd Commissions; The Gubernia Level; The Evolution of an Organization for Improving Peasant Agriculture; Conclusions; THE REFORM BECOMES A MOVEMENT: The Spread of Land Settlem...