Lord and Peasant in Russia

The book centers on the evolving relationships between landowners and peasants and how that relationship impacted the politics and economic conditions inside Russia. The author explores how the growing power of towns and trade, a dispersed population, and poor transportation and communications networks influenced this fundamental social relationship underlying Russian society. The work begins with a brief introduction about the physical geography of Russia and the nature of serfdom. From here the author works chronologically through its period, with short sections on the Kievan and Mongol eras, followed by a longer section on the 16th and 17th centuries and the establishment of serfdom. The final 150 years of serfdom make up the longest section and almost half the book. ==Academic reception==

Lord and Peasant in Russia has been widely reviewed within the academic community and has become a part of the reading curriculum at several universities. Reviews • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Quotes • M. S. Anderson of the London School of Economics wrote in their review, whatever faults the book may contain, "this is a solid and extremely useful piece of work. It will remain for many years a mine of information for students and an essential tool for teachers." ==About the author==

Jerome Blum was an American historian and professor at Princeton University; Blum was chairman of the Department of History at Princeton from 19611967, and was named Henry Charles Lea Professor of History in 1966. Their scholarship centers on Agricultural history in central and eastern Europe. They received their Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1947. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, which published a memorial to him in their proceedings. In addition to Lord and Peasant in Russia, Blum is the author of several books, including: • Noble Landowners and Agriculture in Austria: 1815–1848, (1948). • The Emergence of the European World, (1966). • The European World since 1815: Triumph and Transition, (1970). • The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe, (1978). • Our Forgotten Past: Seven Centuries of Life on the Land, (1982). • In the Beginning: The Advent of the Modern Age: Europe in the 1840s, (1994). ==See also==