Review on the monograph by A.N. Dolgikh “Will I Behold, My Friends, the People Unoppressed…”: Russian Nobility and the Peasant Issue in the 18th – First Quarter of 19th Century. Historiographic Essays: in 2 vols. Lipetsk, Lipetsk State Pedagogical P.P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky University Publ., 2018, vol. 1, 354 p., vol. 2, 358 p.

Abstract

We give the assessment of the monograph, dedicated to the history of the peasant issue studies in Russia. We highly appreciate the historiographic qualification of A.N. Dolgikh. We also emphasize specifically the usage of the large number of works on peasant issue history and serfdom in Russia in the monograph, the thorough analysis of historic environment, in which these works were created, and also A.N. Dolgikh’s own opinion on argumentative issues of the subject.