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(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972). Onodnodvortsy, see Thomas Esper,“The Odnodvortsy
and the Russian Nobility,”Slavonic and East European Review45 (1967): 124–34.
On peasant diet and economy, see Mironov and Eklof,Social History; B. N. Mironov,The
Standard of Living and Revolutions in Russia, 1700– 1917 , ed. Gregory L. Freeze (London:
Routledge, 2012); Ian Blanchard,Russia’s Age of Silver: Precious-Metal Production and
Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century(London: Routledge, 1989). On the dynamic
change in the eighteenth century, see Paul Bushkovitch,“Change and Culture in Early
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291 – 316 and N. S. Kollmann,“A Deeper Early Modern,”Kritika: Explorations in Russian
and Eurasian History16 (2015): 317–29.
On economy and economic debates in Catherine II’s time, see Colum Leckey,Patrons of
Enlightenment: The Free Economic Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia(Newark, Del.:
University of Delaware Press, 2011) and R. P. Bartlett,“Catherine II’s Draft Charter to
the State Peasantry,”Canadian-American Slavic Studies23 (1989): 36–57; Arcadius
Kahan,“The Costs of Westernization in Russia: The Gentry and the Economy in the
18th Century,”Slavic Review25 (1966): 40–66.
An English translation of Catherine II’sInstructionof 1767 is Vol. 2 of Paul Dukes,Russia
under Catherine the Great, 2 vols. (Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners,
1977). Alexander Radischchev’s critique:A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow,
trans. Leo Weiner, ed. Roderick Page Thaler (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1966).
For Count Sheremetev’s forbidden love affair, see Douglas Smith,The Pearl: A True Tale of
Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great’s Russia(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
Richard Stites takes up this theme into the nineteenth century:Serfdom, Society, and
the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power(New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2005).
On peasant resistance: James C. Scott,Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant
Resistance(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985); Alfred Rieber,The Struggle for the
Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World
War(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Paul Avrich chronicles peasant
rebellions from Bolotnikov to Pugachev: Russian Rebels 1600– 1800 (New York:
Schocken Books, 1972); see also Marc Raeff,“Pugachev’s Rebellion,”in Robert Forster
and Jack P. Greene, eds.,Preconditions of Revolution in Early Modern Europe(Baltimore
and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970), 161–202. Pugachev’s manifestos
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