Alessandro Stanziani, Bondage, Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries

For a long time, Russia and Eastern Europe have formed the negative counter‑example of historical developments in the West. It was conveniently fitted to any aspect desired : “modernization,” “civilization,” economic development, civil society etc. The contemporary political and social basis for this traditional view has significantly eroded after 1989 (although it does recur in the wake of political crises, such as the present one). Since, historians have not only thoroughly analyzed traditi..