Suicides of peasants in the Russian village in the late XIX –
early XX century


	History magazine - researches Reference: Bezgin V.B. Suicides of peasants in the Russian village in the late XIX – early XX century // History magazine - researches. 2012. № 1. P. 69-76. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59057 Bezgin V.B. Suicides of peasants in the Russian village in the late XIX – early XX century Abstract: the article deals with the problem of suicide in among the peasants in late XIX – early XX century. It covers the legal side of this question, as well as attitude of the villagers towards the facts of voluntary withdrawal from life, tells about methods and motives of peasants’ suicides. Based on ethnographical materials and police reports author makes the analysis of the dynamics of village suicide, reasons for voluntary withdrawal from life, gender characteristics. Keywords: history, legislation, peasants, village, statistics of suicides, motives of suicides, gender factor, the Church, ordinary perception of suicide, modernization. This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article References 1. Veselovskiy K. S. Opyty nravstvennoy statistiki v Rossii. SPb.: Tip. MVD. 1847. 64 s. 2. Gilinskiy Ya., Rumyantseva G. Dinamika samoubiystv v Rossii. URL: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2004/0161/analit01.php (data obrashcheniya 14.07. 2011) 3. Koni F. Samoubiystvo v zakone i zhizni. URL: http://pagesofpain.com/suicide/articles/suicide-in-law (data obrashcheniya. 07.07.2011) 4. Myakinen I. Kh. Kak byl napisan ocherk Sorokina o samoubiystve // SOTsIS. 2003. № 11. S. 123–131. 5. Obzor Tambovskoy gubernii za 1883–1898 gg. Tambov, 1884–1899. 6. Paperno I. Samoubiystvo kak kul'turnyy institut. M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 1999. 256 s. 7. Russkie krest'yane. Zhizn'. Byt. Nravy. Materialy etnograficheskogo byuro kn. V. N. Tenisheva. SPb., 2004–2008. T. 1–7. 8. Samoubiystva v SSSR v 1925 i 1926 godakh. M.: TsSU, 1929. 56 s. 9. Svyatlovskiy E. V. Materialy po voprosu o sanitarnom polozhenii russkogo krest'yanstva. Mediko-topograficheskoe opisanie Volchanskogo uezda Khar'kovskoy gubernii. Khar'kov: Tip. Gub. prav., 1887. 313 s. 10. Smidovich S. G. Samoubiystva v zerkale statistiki // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya. 1990. № 4. S. 74–79. 11. Sorokin P. Samoubiystvo kak obshchestvennoe yavlenie. URL: http://www.gumer.info/bibliotek_Buks/Sociolog/Sorokin/suicid.php (data obrashcheniya. 07.07.2011) 12. Tagantsev N. S. O prestupleniyakh protiv zhizni po russkomu pravu. T. 2. SPb.: Tip. N. A. Neklyudova, 1873. 422 s. 13. Ugolovnoe ulozhenie. Vysochayshe utverzhdennoe 22 marta 1903 goda. SPb.: Gos. tip., 1903. 340 s

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Bezgin V.B. Suicides of peasants in the Russian village in the late XIX – early XX century