Kanishchev V. V. Scientific legacy of V. P. Danilov and contemporary Peasant Studies in the Tambov Region. On the centenary of the scholar  // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2025. V.10. №4. P. 135-145.

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Annotation

The first part of the article considers V. P. Danilov’s ideas about the history of the peasantry in the Tambov Province, focusing on his collaboration with Tambov historians to compile collections of documents and research articles, especially on the peasant movement in the Tambov Province in 1917–1921, and to study certain rural settlements in the Tambov Region. The second part of the article presents the results of the Tambov historians’ study of the agrarian history of the Tambov Province, presented as a continuation of Danilov’s legacy due to being based on his ideas and the use of information technologies. The electronic database on rural settlements in the Tambov Province confirmed Danilov’s observations about the reasonable consolidation of peasant communes during the egalitarian land redistribution and the long-term survival of settlements consisting of several homesteads. The analysis of historical maps and remote sensing data revealed natural factors that contributed to the preserved independence of certain settlements after repartition. The article also follows Danilov’s call to move from publishing previously unknown documents on the agrarian revolution in Russia to their analysis by describing the electronic database on the peasant movement from the second half of the 19th to the first third of the 20th centuries, highlighting findings of several studies based in this database.

Keywords

Historiography, agrarian history, Tambov Province, rural settlements, peasant communes, protests, information technology.  

About the author

Valery V. Kanishchev, DSc (History), Head of the Laboratory of Social History; Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, Tambov State University named after G. R. Derzhavin. Internatsionalnaya St., 33, Tambov, 392036, Russia.
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