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Encyclopedia: Obshchina

Even after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, a peasant in his everyday work normally had little independence from obshchina, governed at the village level (mir) by the full assembly of the community (skhod). Among its duties were control and redistribution of the common land and forest (if such existed), levying recruits for military service, and imposing punishments for minor crimes. Obshchina was also held responsible for taxes underpaid by members, as well as for their crimes. This type of shared responsibility was known as krugovaya poruka, although the exact meaning of this expression has changed over time.

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Mir (social)

self-government of peasant communities ( obshchinas ) at the village level in a form of the full...

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List of English words of Russian origin

. NET (Mr. Gromyko was known as Mr. NET) NEP NKVD nomenklatura obshchina oblast okhranka okrug...

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Russian Revolution of 1905

collectivism. Russian society was still pre-industrial, and an idealized view saw the narod and the obshchina...

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