Alethea. Twenty years before the Great War. Russian modernization of Witte Stolypin

In the monograph, M. A. Davydov, on the basis of a wide range of sources, primarily statistical, proves the failure of the traditional negativist historical historiography in the massive consciousness: about the hungry export of bread, the "unbearable payments" of the peasantry," impoverishment of the folk masses", "failure Stolypin agrarian reform, etc. The author puts the problem of "semantic inflation" terminology, which directly affects our perception of the era. It shows that the inhabitants of Russia until 1917 in the concepts of hunger, the need, violence and arbitrariness of the state, etc. Invalued a lot of different meaning than we now. This led to the most serious deformation of our ideas about the past. The book also addresses the development of the system of state food assistance to the population affected by the lamb and the peculiarities of the industrialization of Russia, the dynamics of the development of folk savings, including the peasant, rail transportation - freight and passenger, as well as various aspects of the Stolypin agrarian reform, including cooperative movement, and etc. The author makes a fundamental conclusion about the successful current of the modernization of Witte-Stolypin at the end of the XIX - early XX century