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Social inequalities in famine mortality in the manorial system of the tsarist Russian province of Livland in the mid-1840s

Lust, Kersti LU ; Klesment, Martin and Jaadla, Hannaliis (2023) In Economic History Review 76(4). p.1333-1356
Abstract
By relying on longitudinal data on two rural parishes in the Russian Baltic province of Livland, the article analyses two questions concerning famine's short-run effects on mortality in a manorial system: (1) whether there is evidence of a social gradient in mortality during the famine of 1844–6 and (2) whether the manors could protect the peasants against the hardships. The analysis reveals that neither the status of a farmer peasant nor the landlord saved the local inhabitants from an increased risk of dying during the famine of 1844–6. The conventional assumptions about the protective effect of the higher socio-economic status or type of manor against subsistence crisis found very little support in the study.
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mortality, famine, socio-economic status, manorial system, Eastern and Central Europe
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Economic History Review
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76
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4
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1333 - 1356
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Wiley-Blackwell
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1468-0289
DOI
10.1111/ehr.13246
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English
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  series       = {{Economic History Review}},
  title        = {{Social inequalities in famine mortality in the manorial system of the tsarist Russian province of Livland in the mid-1840s}},
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