Novosibirsk. Science. Siberian branch. 1982, 502 p. Russian historiography was enriched by work 1 covering the history of the Siberian peasantry from the end of the XVI to the middle of the XIX century. The new work not only summarizes the results of research conducted after the creation of the History of Siberia (its second volume, on the period of feudalism, was published in 1968), but also differs from the aforementioned publication in the subject of research and the range of problems covered. The history of the Siberian peasantry is primarily "the history of the transformation of the desert expanses of the east of the country into a land of agricultural culture" (p. 9). This specificity of the regional group of peasants prompted the authors to pay much attention to the process of developing new lands in difficult geographical and social conditions. The book contains special chapters on the peculiarities of the peasant colonization of Siberia, but in essence all other sections also reveal this problem. The rich agricultural experience of the Russian peasantry in Siberia, considered in many ways and in dynamics, testifies to the constant process of adapting the production traditions that have developed in the European part of Russia to the new conditions and peculiarities of certain regions of the region. The authors summarize the information revealed in recent years about tools, systems and techniques of agriculture and introduce new statistical material into circulation, reconstructing on its basis the change in sown areas and the volume of grain production. At the same time, production is considered in organic connection with the history of the peasantry as a class: the social conditionality of the degree of inclusion of a particular group of ploughmen in the number of producers at different stages of development of the region is revealed. Such an aspiration with- 1 Authors ' collective: V. A. Alexandrov, Z. Ya. Boyarshinova, Yu. S. Bulygin, G. F. Bykonya, O. N ... Read more