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Understanding Peasant Russia. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

William G. Rosenberg
William G. Rosenberg
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University of Michigan
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , October 1993 , pp. 840 - 849
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1993

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7 Anfimov and Danilov's views remain in particular a source of intense conflict, not only overtheir accuracy but about the integrity of recent Soviet historiography in general.

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