Litvak, B. The Peasant Movement in Russia, 1775-1904: History and Methods of Source Study (Krest'ianskoe dvizhenie v Rossii). 1989. In Russian.

Литвак, Борис Григорьевич. Крестьянское движение в России в 1775-1904 гг. : история и методика изучения источников / Б. Г. Литвак ; ответственный редактор академик И. Д. Ковальченко ; Академия наук СССР, Институт истории СССР.
Москва : Наука, 1989. 256 с. ; 22 см.
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Litvak, Boris Grigor'evich. Krest'ianskoe dvizhenie v Rossii v 1775-1904 gg.: istoriia i metodika izucheniia istochnikov [The Peasant Movement in Russia, 1775-1904: History and Methods of Source Study] / B. G. Litvak ; responsible editor Academician I. D. Koval'chenko ; USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of History of the USSR.
Moscow : Nauka, 1989. 256 pp. ; 22 cm.
Hardcover. Print run of 1,800 copies.
Binding very good: clean, gilt lettering sharp. Text block very good: pages uniformly bright; block firm and complete.

A specialized monograph in the source studies and historiography of the Russian peasant movement, covering the period from the aftermath of the Pugachev Rebellion (1775) through the eve of the first Russian Revolution (1904). Boris Grigor'evich Litvak (1919-2002), a leading Soviet specialist in the post-reform Russian peasantry and in documentary source study, examines three interconnected problems: the publication history of primary source collections on the peasant movement across the Soviet republics and the methodological traditions they represent, the successive historiographical waves from the 1930s through the early 1980s and their source-critical foundations, and the unresolved tasks of source analysis facing future researchers - including the peasant documents expressing the ideological dimensions of the movement, the personal documentation of rebellion leaders, the mass documentation of peasant social psychology, and the sources for the post-reform peasant consciousness. A central thread of the study is the so-called "Druzhinin series" - the multivolume documentary collections on the peasant movement edited by the Academician Nikolai Mikhailovich Druzhinin (1886-1986), which Litvak subjects to systematic bibliographic and source-critical analysis. The responsible editor, Ivan Dmitrievich Koval'chenko (1923-1995), Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, was the foremost Soviet practitioner of quantitative methods in history and one of the most prestigious figures in Soviet historical science. With a print run of only 1,800 copies, the volume is scarce in clean copies outside specialist library collections.