List of Tables List of Figures General Editor's Introduction Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Judith Pallo t PART 1: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS How Peasants Became Backward: Agrarian Policy and Co-operatives in Russia, 1905-14; Y. Kotsonis Exhibiting Kustar Industry in Late Imperial Russia/Exhibiting Late Imperial Russia in Kustar Industry; L. Siegelbaum Tracking Social Change Through Sport Hunting; L. McReynolds The Moral Community and Peasant Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Poland; K.Stauter-Halsted Revolution and Grass-Roots Re-Evaluations of Russian Orthodoxy: Parish Clergy and Peasants of Voronezh Province; C.J. Chulos The `Peasantisation' of the Soviet Working Class: Peasant Migration's Ebb and Flow; D.L.Hoffmann Ukrainian Settlement Patterns in the Kirgiz Steppe Before 1917: Ukrainian Colonies or Russian Integration?; I. Stebelsky Transforming Peasants PART 2: POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND PEASANT RESPONSES `A Wager on History': The Stolypin Agrarian Reforms as Process; D.A.J. Macey The First World War and the Disintegration of Economic Spaces in Russia; A. Stanziani Economic Relations Between Russia and Turkmenistan, 1914-18, or How to Start a Famine; M Buttino The Soft Line on Agriculture: The Case of Narkomzem and its Specialists, 1921-27; M. Wehner Re-evaluating Stalin's Peasant Policy in 1928-30