Soviet Quantitative History

This volume presents the result of the efforts of Soviet and American scholars at direct co-operation, producing significant gains in access to historical archives. The result is a work which will be of great interest to quantitative historians in the West, and Western historians who specialise in the study of the USSR. Essays focus both on methodological issues and substantive issues. The substantive issues focus on: Agro-Economic History (the abolition of serfdom in the 1860s, collectivisation, the nature of changing employment patterns through industrialization, the emergence of the Communist Party) dealing with the core concerns of Soviet historians who specialise in the history of their country's rural society and economy; Social History (the enormous population, language differences, cultural differences) where in spite of the homogenizing effect of Soviet culture, urbanization, and industrialization, significant ethno-linguistic and cultural differences persist; Textual Provenance (in which anonymous texts are examined to reveal facts about literary history and psychohistory). The end result is a thorough study of facts about pre- and post-revolutionary Russia (many of them previously unearthed) as well as an examination of the methods used by Soviet qualitative historians in interpreting statistics.Rowney, Don K. is the author of 'Soviet Quantitative History' with ISBN 9780835785068 and ISBN 0835785068.