Up from Serfdom : My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824
"It was the arbitrary nature of the serfholder's power that weighed on serfs like Nikitenko, for as they discovered, even the most benevolent patron could turn overnight into an overbearing tyrant. In that respect, serfdom and slavery were the same."-Peter Kolchin, from the foreword A...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2001
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