¹ For surveys of recent literature, including other works by some of the contributors to the collections of papers, see Vasudevan, H. S., ‘Peasant land and peasant society in late Imperial Russia’, Historical Journal, XXI, 1 (1988), 207–22CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Eklof, Ben, ‘Ways of Seeing: Recent Anglo-American studies of the Russian peasant (1861-1914)’, Jakrbücher für Geschichie Osteuropas, XXXVI, 1 (1988), 57–79Google Scholar; and the first section of Moon, David, ‘Agriculture and peasants, industry and workers, political parties and revolution: recent books on Russian history’, European History Quarterly, XXII, 4 (1992), 599–604. It is not possible in a review article of this length to do justice to all the conference papers, or the full range of issues discussed. The exclusion of some of the papers should not be taken as a judgement on their meritsGoogle Scholar.

² Simms, J. Y., ‘More grist for the mill: a further look at the crisis in Russian agriculture at the end of the nineteenth century’, Slavic Review, L, 4 (1991), 999–1009CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

³ Vasudevan made a similar point, ‘Peasant land and peasant society’, 207-8 and 219-20.

⁴ One exception to this is Christine Worobec, who makes points of comparison in her book, and has also published on the Ukrainian peasantry, e.g.: ‘Temptress or virgin? The precarious sexual position of women in post-emancipation Ukrainian peasant society’, Slavic Review, XLIX, 2 (1990), 227–38.