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How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century

Elena Korchmina & Mikołaj Malinowski

The Journal of Economic History2026https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050725101071article
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Abstract

This paper is a part of the project supported by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 call (project ID is 101027432). We would like to acknowledge the contributions of the participants of the sessions organized at the World Economic History Congress in Paris, CLIO World Conference in Dublin, and the European Historical Economics Society meeting in Groningen, WEast 2023 Conference in Prague, as well as the participants of the seminar series in Utrecht, Groningen, Abu Dhabi (NYU), London (LSE), Odense (SDU), and Berlin (Humboldt), the participants of internal seminars at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Bologna. We are especially thankful to the participants of the 2023 Summer Workshop in the Economic History and Historical Political Economy of Eurasia (Paris). We especially appreciate the help of Dmitrii Khitrov with map design. We also acknowledge substantive comments by Jutta Bolt, Jonathan Chapman, Herman de Jong, Steven Hoch, Andrei Markevich, Steven Nafziger, Paul Sharp, Alessandro Stanziani, and Jan Luiten van Zanden.

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@article{elena2026,
  title        = {{How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century}},
  author       = {Elena Korchmina & Mikołaj Malinowski},
  journal      = {The Journal of Economic History},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050725101071},
}

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