In this first monograph on the Russian cooperative movement before 1914, economic and social change is considered alongside Russian political culture. Looking a

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From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, America's experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a course of rapid in

In this first monograph on the Russian cooperative movement before 1914, economic and social change is considered alongside Russian political culture. Looking a

France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a