Sochinenie A.A. Kaufmana "Russkaya obschina" posvyascheno izucheniyu istorii vozniknoveniya i razvitiya krestyanskoj obschiny na Rusi. Dannaya istoricheskaya problema prinadlezhit k oblasti agrarnoj istorii. Kaufman primenyaet novuyu metodiku v issledovanii obschiny. Tak kak pismennye istochniki po dannomu voprosu byli vesma skudny, on obratilsya k "zhivoj istorii" razvitya sovremennyh obschin u krestyan gluhih severnyh rajonov, i u narodov Rossii, zhivuschih obschinnym stroem. Etot metod, kotoryj issledovatel nazyvaet "metodom perezhivanij," pozvolyal voochiyu nablyudat protsess slozheniya obschiny u sovremennyh narodov, zhivuschih traditsionnym sposobom, i perenosit model protsessa na dalekoe proshloe. Avtor issledoval krestyanskie obschiny Sibiri, a takzhe proanaliziroval dannye sploshnyh statisticheskih issledovanij zemlepolzovaniya i hozyajstva kirgiz, sdelannyh pod rukovodstvom F.A. Scherbiny. V nastoyaschej rabote A.A. Kaufman stavit tselyu prosledit protsess slozheniya obschiny, kak on nablyudaetsya u krestyanskogo i inorodcheskogo naseleniya kak toj zhe Sibiri, tak evropejskoj Rossii i Kavkaza. Issledovanie bylo vypolneno na osnove chrezvychajno bogatogo materiala, sobrannogo v techenie dvadtsati let sistematicheskih ekspeditsij (rajonami izucheniya stali Sibir, kirgizskie stepi, Zakavkaze, vologodskij sever i drugie regiony). This book, "Russkaya obschina v protsesse ee zarozhdeniya i rosta," by A.A. Kaufman, is a replication of a book originally published before 1908. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.