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On Missing the Point: A Rejoinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

James Y. Simms Jr.
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In responding to G. Hamburg's comment, it is necessary to reiterate briefly the argument that I presented in my article on the crisis in Russian agriculture at the end of the nineteenth century. I began with the premise that scholarly opinion—contemporary, Soviet, and especially Western—espouses the proposition that peasant husbandry was experiencing a deepening crisis as the last century came to a close. Scholars have argued that peasant well-being was declining steadily, especially in the 1890s relative to previous decades. After providing a definition of what the term “agricultural crisis” means, I proceeded to analyze what I considered to be the crucial indexes used to support the crisis hypothesis.

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Slavic Review , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , September 1978 , pp. 487 - 490
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1978

References

1. See Simms, James Y. Jr., “The Crisis in Russian Agriculture at the End of the Nineteenth Century: A Different View,” Slavic Review, 36, no. 3 (September 1977): 378 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. Ibid., pp. 397-98.

3. G. M., Hamburg, “The Crisis in Russian Agriculture: A Comment,” Slavic Review, 37, no. 3 (September 1978): 481–82Google Scholar.

4. Ibid., p. 483; emphasis added.

5. Ibid., p. 485.

6. Ibid., p. 482.

7. Ibid., p. 483, n. 9.

8. Harvest and population data come from page 284 and export data come from page 310 in Nifontov, A. S., Zemovoe proizvodstvo Rossii vo vtoroi polovine XIX veka, po materialam eshegodnoi statistiki urozhaev evropeiskoi Rossii (Moscow, 1974)Google Scholar.

9. Robinson, Geroid T. (Rural Russia under the Old Regime [New York: Macmillan, 1967], p. 118)Google Scholar states that there were six souls in the average peasant household in 1900. See Nifontov, , Zemovoe proizvodstvo Rossii, pp. 270 and 284Google Scholar, for population and corn harvest figures. I divided the former into the latter.

10. Nifontov, , Zemovoe proizvodstvo Rossii, p. 279 Google Scholar. Reference Books of 1976-77: A Selection This is the fourth annual listing of significant reference works selected and annotated by members of the Slavic and East European Division of the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.1 To aid the finding of titles in library catalogs, available Library of Congress main entries are used. Library of Congress card numbers are added to aid in verification and provide for more convenient retrieval of bibliographic information from machine- readable data bases. GENERAL Bamborschke, Ulrich. Bibliographie slavistischer Arbeiten aus deutschsprachigen Fachzeitschriften, 1964-1973, einschliesslich slavistischer Arbeiten aus deutschsprachigen nichtslavistischen Zeitschriften sowie slavistischen Fest- und Sammelschriften, 1945-1973. 2 vols. Bibliographische Mitteilungen des Osteuropa- Instituts an der Freien Universitat Berlin, no. 13. By Ulrich Bamborschke. with the cooperation of W. Werner and E. A. Hilf. Berlin and Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz in Kommission, 1976. 736 pp. LC 78-354-638. This volume includes a continuation of Bibliographie der slavistischen Arbeiten aus den deutschsprachigen Fachzeitschriften, 1876-1963 by K. D. Seeman and F. Siegmann (published in 1965 as no. 8 in the same series). As the title indicates, the book also includes a bibliography of articles in German published in periodicals not devoted primarily to Slavic subjects as well as in Slavic-related Festschrifts and collections from 1945 to 1973. Based on