Download or read book Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine written by Leonard G. Friesen and published by Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Friesen presents a study of the transformation of New Russia--the region north of the Black and Azov seas--from its conquest by the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth century to the revolutionary tumult of 1905. Friesen focuses on the multifaceted relations between the region's peasants, European colonists, and Russian estate owners.