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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- Submitted Tuesday, 12 August 2025
- Reviewed Saturday, 20 September 2025
- Copyright © Auhtors, 2025
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In memory of the scholar: Works of Yu.A. Moshkov and some issues of agrarian historiography
Feb 08 2023Kuznetsov I. A. In memory of the scholar: Works of Yu. A. Moshkov and some issues of agrarian historiography // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2022. V.7. №4. P. 47-71.
DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2022-7-4-47-71
Annotation
Yuri Aleksandrovich Moshkov (April 6, 1922 — August 30, 2022), a prominent Russian agrarian historian, whose works outlined the main directions in the study of the economic aspects in the history of collectivization and the collective-farm sector of Soviet agriculture, passed away. During his long creative life, the Russian historiography came a long way from the formation of the scientific paradigm for the study of Soviet history during the thaw period, through the methodological crisis of perestroika to the “archival revolution” of the 1990s and the subsequent period of obtaining new sources and choosing new theoretical models under the ideological diversity. The author pays tribute to the memory of his university teacher, highly appreciates his personal contribution, and expresses some general thoughts about the development paths and issues of the Russian agrarian historiography in the second half of the 20th — early 21st century.
Keywords
Historiography, thaw period, perestroika, Yu.A. Moshkov, V. P. Danilov.
About the author
Igor A. Kuznetsov, PhD (History), Senior Researcher, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Vernadskogo Prosp., 82, Moscow, 119571, Russia.
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