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Sergei Antonov, Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 386 pp. ISBN 978-0-67497-148-6. $ 49.95.In this well-written volume, Sergei Antonov has boldly fashioned a new history of imperial Russian private credit and debt relationships in the decades leading up to the Great Reforms of the 1860s. Bursting with unique vignettes and telling qualitative (and, occasionally, quantitative) facts drawn from numerous archival holdings and a deep reading of contemporary accounts, Bankrupts and Usurers is a volume worthy of attention from all Russian historians of the period and from any historian interested in how personal debt actually worked on the ground in a lesser developed economy of the 19th century. Antonov’s study of myriad individual court cases and their institutional context also functions, in part, as a history of Russian commercial and civil law in areas that are not well-covered by other English-language scholarship. Thus, in formulating a combined legal and social history of personal debt practices, this volume argues against simplistic conceptualizations of imperial Russia as “exotic” or particularly backward in this area. This is an important contribution in the history of Russian “capitalism,”
Canadian-American Slavic Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2017
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