Acknowledgements-- Introduction Backwardness, Legitimacy, and Hegemony in Russian and Comparative Perspective -- The Door to Society: European Models and Russian Peasants, 1861-95 -- The 'Popular Economy': Laboring Peasants and Markets without Capitalists, 1895-1904 -- Cooperatives and Caste: The Debate on Property in the Stolypin Era, 1906-14 -- Citizens: Backwardness and Legitimacy in Agronomy and Economics, 1900-14 -- Making Peasants Backward, 1900-14 -- Epilogue Select Bibliography Index.