subordination to a skeletal administrative network. Otherwise, this was an imperial
society of“difference.”
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Gregory Freeze sparked discussion ofsosloviein“The Soslovie (Estate) Paradigm and
Russian Social History,”American Historical Review91 (1986): 11–36. Responses
include Michael Confino,“The Soslovie (Estate) Paradigm: Reflections on some Open
Questions,”Cahiers du monde russe49 (2008): 681–704; Elise K. Wirtschafter,“Social
Categories in Russian Imperial History,”Cahiers du monde russe50 (2009): 213–50;
David L. Ransel,“Implicit Questions in Michael Confino’s Essay: Corporate State and
Vertical Relationships,”Cahiers du monde russe51 (2010): 195–210. Monographic
discussions include Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter,Social Identity in Imperial Russia
(DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997); Alison Karen Smith,For the
Common Good and their Own Well-Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia(New York:
Oxford University Press, 2014).
On global population history: see works by Kabuzan, Gorskaia, and Vodarskii cited in
Chapter 1; Colin McEvedy and Richard Jones,Atlas of World Population History(Har-
mondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978); Mironov and Eklof,The Social History of Imperial
Russia. For a brief survey, see Arcadius Kahan and Richard Hellie,The Plow, the Hammer,
and the Knout: An Economic History of Eighteenth-Century Russia(Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1985). Classic Russian works are cited in Chapter 1. In addition,
V. M. Kabuzan published a series of valuable individual demographic studies from the
eighteenth to twentieth centuries covering Novorossiia, the Far East, and Crimea, as well
as German, Russian, Ukrainian, and Moldavian settlement; his overall syntheses are
Narody Rossii v XVIII veke: Chislennost’i etnicheskii sostav(Moscow: Nauka, 1990) and
Emigratsiia i reemigratsiia v Rossii v XVIII–nachale XX veka(Moscow: Nauka, 1998).
On population movement: Brian J. Boeck,“Containment vs. Colonization: Muscovite
Approaches to Settling the Steppe,”in Nicholas Breyfogle, Abby Shrader, and Willard
Sunderland, eds.,Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian
History(London and New York: Routledge, 2007), 41–60; David Moon,The Russian
Peasantry, 1600–1930: The World the Peasants Made(London: Longman, 1999);
D. J. B. Shaw,“Southern Frontiers in Muscovy, 1550–1700,”in James H. Bater and
R. A. French,Studies in Russian Historical Geography, 2 vols. (London: Academic Press,
1983), 1: 117–42; Alton Donnelly,“The Mobile Steppe Frontier: The Russian Conquest
and Colonization of Bashkiria and Kazakhstan to 1850,”in Michael Rywkin, ed.,Russian
Colonial Expansion to 1917(London: Mansell, 1988), 189–207; Judith Pallot and Denis
J. B. Shaw,Landscape and Settlement in Romanov Russia, 1613– 1917 (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1990).
On society and economy among peasants: Moon,The Russian Peasantryand his“Reassess-
ing Russian Serfdom,”European History Quarterly26 (1996): 483–526; Roger Bartlett,
“Serfdom and State Power in Imperial Russia,”European History Quarterly33 (2003):
29 – 64; Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter,Russia’s Age of Serfdom 1649– 1861 (Malden, Mass.:
Blackwell, 2008); T. K. Dennison,The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011); Steven L. Hoch,Serfdom and Social
Control in Russia: Petrovskoe, a Village in Tambov(Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1986); Allessandro Stanziani,Bondage: Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to
the Early Twentieth Centuries(New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014). Classics
on the peasantry include Jerome Blum,Lord and Peasant in Russia: From the Ninth to the
Nineteenth Century(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971); Teodor Shanin,TheSoslovie, Serfs, and Society on the Move 373