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304 pages • first pub 1842 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780486426822
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication date: 09 June 2003
Description
A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must continue to pay taxes until the next census. The ...
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304 pages • first pub 1842 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780486426822
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication date: 09 June 2003
Description
A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must continue to pay taxes until the next census. The ...