The Development of the Peasant Commune in Russia
论证俄国农民公社的定期重分土地、权力等级和劳役义务等特征，是农奴制的结果，这些特征降低了监督劳动和维护农奴生产力的成本。
This article argues that the development of the peasant commune in Russia, with its periodic repartition of serf holdings, hierarchy of authority, and dependence on corvee as a form of obligation, was a consequence of enslavement of the Russian peasant. These features of the commune are seen as reducing the costs of both monitoring labor effort, and maintaining the productive capacity of the serf. The chronology of their development and their association with the more fertile land of European Russia and with private as opposed to state ownership provide evidence for the argument.