An obshchina (/ əpˈʃiːnə /, lit. ' commune '; Russian: община, IPA: [ɐpˈɕːinə]) or mir (/ ˈmɪər /, lit. 'world, peace'; Russian: мир, IPA: [mʲir]), also officially termed as a rural community (Russian: сельское общество; Ukrainian: сільське товариство) between the 19th and 20th centuries, was a peasant village community (as opposed to an individ...

mir, in Russian history, a self-governing community of peasant households that elected its own officials and controlled local forests, fisheries, hunting grounds, and vacant lands.

Nov 28, 2021 · Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia is an ethnographic account of Russian peasants around 1900. The author, Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia (“Semyonova” for short), spent four years researching in the villages—one of the first to study a people through prolonged direct observation and contact with them.

Jan 5, 2012 · Vyatskoye is just a village. But what a village it is. The whole settlement is a museum complex devoted to 18th and 19th century rural Russian life.

Russia in the late nineteenth century was a society in crisis. For some, the pace of development was too slow.

The 19th century rural experience for Russian peasants was characterized by tremendous struggles and hardship. Their lives were marked by poverty, limited resources, and oppressive working conditions.

The widely accepted view of the rural Russian in the pre-revolutionary period is that of a poor peasant scratching out a meager living in a harsh climate. The Russian peasant, in this view, lived at the very edge of subsistence, his (or her) survival always threatened by the vagaries of

Aug 10, 2021 · -- The peasant and the village commune, by F.M. Watters. -- The peasant and the factory, by R.E. Zelnik. -- The peasant in nineteenth-century historiography, by M.B. Petrovich.

Jul 1, 2007 · Thus, open-field property rights in 19th-century Russia are typically labeled either peredel’noe (repartitional) or podvornoe (household) obshchinnoe zemle vladenie (communal land-ownership).

Russian villages consisted of wooden houses, the church, the bathhouse, windmills, storage sheds and other outbuildings spaced to prevent the spread of fire. The pogost village was originally a country church with its related structures.