Lanterna Rally

Author: U S Foreign Agricultural Relations

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-29

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9780365652922

Excerpt from Foreign Agriculture, Vol. 4: A Review of Foreign Farm Policy, Production, and Trade; March 1940 The institution of family property among Russian peasants owes its origin to custom, which was recognized and preserved hythe courts, as well as by the emancipa tion legislation. It had disadvantages, as well as advantages, for the individual. For instance, all his earnings from whatever source, if he was not legally separated from the household, were supposed to go into the common pool7 a serious matter considering the prevalence of migratory work in the overpopulated Russian village. Even peasants who had long lived and worked away from the village were often forced to continue their contributions to the household of which they legally remained mem bers. The weapon here was the famous Russian passport, which hung like the sword of Damocles over the head of any peasant who wanted to leave his native village. For to receive or to renew the much-coveted passport, he had to obtain the permission both of the head of the household and of the mir. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.