ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DESSIATINE
From Russian desyatina, literally: tithe, from desyat ten.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESSIATINE»
Discover the use of
dessiatine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dessiatine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Europe in the Russian Mirror: Four Lectures in Economic History
Strumilin has no estimate of arable available to the average peasant household.
It appears that the 'full peasant stead' [polnyi dvor] is usually said to have had at
its disposal 6 dessiatines (1 dessiatine equals 2.7 acres) of arable land ...
Alexander Gerschenkron, 1970
2
Mennonite Estates in Imperial Russia
The two paid the same price for their land, 2 rubles silver (7 rubles banko) per
dessiatine. Wilhelm Martens called his estate "Schoenteich." David called his
neighbouring property "Neuteich." Thus was begun the tangled web of Schroeder
...
3
Finders Keepers?: How the Law of Capture Shaped the World ...
Proven oil acreage was likewise available only through auction in lots of 1 to 10
dessiatine.97 By the time Beeby Thompson arrived in 1898, it was clear to him
that competitive drilling was the norm, with operators working on small plots,
each ...
4
I Heard My People Cry: One Family's Escape from Russia
Families were allocated sixtyfive Dessiatine (one dessiatine equals 2.7 acres) in
the Colonies for farmland and one-and-one-half Dessiatine for a Vollwirtschaft (
farmyard). Farms could not be divided. Villages had common pastures and the ...
Elizabeth Lenci-Downs, 2003
5
Anabaptist/Mennonite Faith and Economics
Landowners thus rented large tracts of unassigned colony land at two kopecks
per dessiatine (2.7 acres), using such land for their older sons who could not
inherit the family property, or they sublet it to non-relative landless people at three
or ...
Calvin Wall Redekop, Victor A. Krahn, Samuel J. Steiner, 1994
6
Franz Toevs and His Descendants
For the families that are to be moved, we designate another ten free years, but
require that each family in possession of 65 dessiatine land pay 15 kopeks per
dessiatine annually after the expiration of the ten-year period and be exempt from
...
7
History of Socialism: An Historical Comparative Study of ...
dessiatine. is. 2.7. acres.) One of the most dramatic events before the Duma
convened was the republican demonstration in June, 1914. Tchcheidze, the
leader of the socialist group, had previously delivered a speech in the Duma in
which he ...
8
British and Foreign State Papers
Dans la première zone (sans terre noire), à la première dessintino du maximum
de l'allocation par individu (comprenant dans cette dessiatine le terrain affecté à l'
enclos), on assigne une moitié du maximum de 1'obr0k par individu, dest-à-dire ...
9
Manufactures and Trade: With a General Industrial Map
In the other non-Chernoziom regions and in the black- earth part of the central
agricultural district, this cereal is generally sown at an average of nine meras per
dessiatine; in the whole of the non-steppe portion of the black-earth zone rye is ...
Russia. Departament torgovli i manufaktur, John Martin Crawford, 1893
10
The industries of Russia
meras, and in the steppe regions less than ten meras of oats are sown per
dessiatine. The thinnest sowings of oats are in the southern districts of the
government of Samara where the average is six meras per dessiatine. In extreme
cases the ...
Soviet Union. Departament torgovli i manufaktur, John Martin Crawford, Soviet Union. Departament selʹskogo khoziaĭstva, 1893
