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Sheila Fitzpatrick - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "The old arbitrary habits of autocratic rule and the continued activity of the secret police undermined these concessions". (Pg.17)
  - - - Example 1: 19th century writer Nikolai Gogol - "Russia was a troika careering in darkness to an unknown destination". (Pg.17)
      - Example 2: Anti-Tsar Duma politician Aleksandr Guchkov - "it was a car steered along the edge of a precipice by a mad driver, whose terrified passengers were debating the risk of seizing the wheel". (Pg.17)
  - - - hints of trying to justify actions of authorities - i.e. presents government as having limited choice in setting unjust conditions for peasants. (Pg.18)
- - - - Still held land in communal tenure (divided into strips) (Pg.18)
      - Mir system would still periodically redistribute the strips. (Pg.18)
      - Modern farming techniques were unknown in the villages (Wooden ploughs still used). (Pg.18)
      - Housing conditions - huts clustered together along village street with animals sleeping in house. (Pg.18)
      - Old patriarchal structure of peasant family survived. (Pg.18)
  - - - Stat: Almost half of the 9 million peasants who took out passports for seasonal work in the years leading up to WW1 were working outside agriculture. (Pg.19)
    - - "the impression that old Russia survived almost unchanged in the villages may well have been deceptive". (Pg.19)
      - "Many peasants were living with one foot in the traditional village world and the other in the quite different world of the modern industrial town". (Pg.19)
    - - Geographical Location
      - Age
      - Sex