obshchina
Russian peasant commune
An obshchina is a traditional Russian peasant commune that collectively managed village land, redistributing it periodically among member households according to family size.
The institution shaped rural Russian life for centuries and figured prominently in debates about Russia's path to modernization.
Slavophiles idealized the obshchina as embodying cooperative values distinct from Western individualism.
Shared-living community
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
- villageSmall rural community
- landEarth's solid surface
- collectiveJointly organized group
farming · redistribution · allotment · strips · cultivation · serfdom · emancipation · repartition
Eurasian federation, largest country
- tsaristOf Russian emperors
- serfdomFeudal bound labor
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- reformsCorrective institutional changes
nineteenth-century · Alexander · emancipation · modernization · collectivization · dissolution · pre-revolutionary · agrarian
Collective of connected people
- assemblyConstructing from components
- eldersSenior community members
- councilAdvisory deliberative group
- solidarityUnity among allies
tradition · customs · patriarchal · kinship · households · families · decisions · gatherings
Politics favoring ordinary citizens
- socialismCommunal economic control
- communalismGroup-centered social organization
- egalitarianismPhilosophy of universal equality
- anti-capitalismOpposition to market economies
utopian · collectivism · indigenous · uniqueness · progress · debate · Marx · revolutionary
commune
Shared-living community
collective · farming · redistribution · allotment · strips · cultivation · serfdom · emancipation · repartition · household
Russia
Eurasian federation, largest country
reforms · nineteenth-century · Alexander · emancipation · modernization · collectivization · dissolution · pre-revolutionary · agrarian · imperial
community
Collective of connected people
- assemblyConstructing from components
- eldersSenior community members
- councilAdvisory deliberative group
solidarity · tradition · customs · patriarchal · kinship · households · families · decisions · gatherings · obligations
populism
Politics favoring ordinary citizens
- socialismCommunal economic control
- communalismGroup-centered social organization
- egalitarianismPhilosophy of universal equality
anti-capitalism · utopian · collectivism · indigenous · uniqueness · progress · debate · Marx · revolutionary · intelligentsia
- SlavophilismRussian soul, Russian Orthodoxy
- RussiaRussia, Moscow, Kremlin, Red Square, Siberia
- Slavic folk culturematryoshka, balalaika, samovar, ushanka, blini
- Tsarist Russiatsar, tsars, czar, tsarina, czarina
obshchinaprivate property
Individually owned assets
private ownership · freehold · personal property · enclosure · private estate
obshchinaindividualism
Doctrine of personal independence
individual · personal · private · atomization · self-reliance