Peasant Studies and the History of Agrarian Relations in Russia

V. V. Babashkin*

Russian Presidential Academy of the National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: babashkin@ranera.ru

Received August 11, 2015

Abstract—Some important events in the agrarian history of Russia in the 20th century are analyzed from the
standpoint of modern peasant studies. The author relies on materials of regular (1992–2000) sessions of the the-
oretical seminar “Contemporary Concepts of Agrarian Development.” That seminar was led by outstanding sci-
entists—the Russian agrarian historian V.P. Danilov and the British historical sociologist in Russian peasant and
postpeasant society T. Shanin. In the opinion of V.V. Babashkin, the methodology that was elaborated at these
roundtable sessions ought to occupy its rightful place in Russian historical and sociological studies.

Keywords: peasant studies, V.P. Danilov, T. Shanin, agrarian development, methodology of double reflexivity.

DOI: 10.1134/S1019331616020064

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