Essays in Russian social and economic history

Did Russia's emancipated serfs really pay too much for too little land? : statistical anomalies and long-tailed distributions -- On good numbers and bad : Malthus, population trends, and peasant standard of living in late Imperial Russia -- Serfs in Imperial Russia demographic insights -- Serf diet in nineteenth-century Russia -- Famine, disease, and mortality patterns in the parish of Borshevka, Russia, 1830-1912 -- The banking crisis, peasant reform, and economic development in Russia, 1857-1861 -- The tax censuses and the decline of the serf population in Imperial Russia, 1833-1858 / (Steven L. Hoch and Wilson R. Augustine) -- Tall tales : anthropometric measures of well-being in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, 1821-1960 -- Bridewealth, dowry, and socioeconomic differentiation in rural Russia -- The serf economy, the peasant family, and the social order -- The great reformers and the world they did not know : drafting the emancipation legislation in Russia, 1858-61