The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita583recl Year: 1883 462 EUSSIA IN EUEOPE. At the same time the communal group lias been chiefly maintained and modified in connection with the cultivation of the land. This group is the mir of Great Russia, the Jiromada of Little Russia, and analogous institutions under other names are met amongst the Finno-Tatars, Mordvinians, Cheremissians, and Chuvashes, and even amongr4 the German settlers on the Volga. The mir is thus Fig. 247.—Distribution of the Land in a Mie. a general institution in the empire, although
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita583recl Year: 1883 462 EUSSIA IN EUEOPE. At the same time the communal group lias been chiefly maintained and modified in connection with the cultivation of the land. This group is the mir of Great Russia, the Jiromada of Little Russia, and analogous institutions under other names are met amongst the Finno-Tatars, Mordvinians, Cheremissians, and Chuvashes, and even amongr4 the German settlers on the Volga. The mir is thus Fig. 247.—Distribution of the Land in a Mie. a general institution in the empire, although its most original and best studied forms occur chiefly in Great Russia. The usual rendering of the term mir by that of *' commune ' is scarcely correct, for labour in common is little practised except in some temporary agricultural unions, such as the schershchina of the Lower Volga and Little Russia. In certain Raskolnik communities the land is not even divided, but cultivated by all, and the produce distributed according to the number of workers in each family. Asa rule, labour in common, and equal division of the produce, are practised more frequently on the pasture than the arable lands, and more generally on rented farms than on communal property. The word mir, meaning
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