Obshchina (p=ɐpˈɕːinə, literally: `commune`) or Mir (мир, literally: `society` (one of the meanings)) or Selskoye obshestvo (Cельское общество (`Rural community`, official term in the 19th and 20th century) were peasant communities, as opposed to individual farmsteads, or khutors, in Imperial Russia. The term derives f...
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(from the article `Russia`) ...the most powerful person at this level, who was assisted by an elder elected by an assembly of householders. The lowest effective centre of power ...
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