Traces grain price movements from 1707 to 1914 and emphasises some of their major consequences. Grain prices exercised an important influence on social, economic and political life, in the transition to capitalist agriculture, in social differentiation between bourgeoisie and peasantry, in rural community dislocation and in industrialization.-translated by C.Wilson

Translated title of the contribution( Grain price movements in Russia from the nineteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century).
Original languageFrench
Pages (from-to)217-248
Number of pages32
JournalAnnales, Economies, Societes, Civilisations
Volume41
Issue number1
StatePublished - 1986

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  • Social Sciences(all)

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