Leonid Milov (Russian:
Леонид Васильевич Милов; 28 July 1929,
Moscow
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- 17 November 2007, Moscow) was a prominent Soviet and Russian historian. He worked at the Faculty of History in
Lomonosov Moscow State University
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.
Life and works
His primary scientific interests were history of
serfdom
Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery, which develop ...
and genesis of
capitalism
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in the Russian Empire, but he also specialized in Russian medieval law and Byzantine law. Milov was a pioneer of
cliometrics
Cliometrics (, also ), sometimes called new economic history or econometric history, is the systematic application of economic theory, econometric techniques, and other formal or mathematical methods to the study of history (especially social and e ...
in Russia along with professor
Ivan Kovalchenko and others.
Author of more than 150 works, in 1998 he published his ''opus magnum'' - ''Russian Plowman and Special Aspects of Russian Historical Process''. Having conducted a thorough research of Russian agriculture and peasant life in the 16th and 17th centuries he argued that Russian serfdom as economical institute was a "compensational mechanism for survival". His works on Russian economic history are considered very important today.
In last years of his life, Milov was in charge of creating a completely new textbook on Russian history based on post-Soviet science. The result was a book in three volumes written by a collective of historians. It was published in 2006.
External links
Anton Gorsky in the Memory of Leonid Milov A detailed biography on site of Faculty of History in Lomonosov Moscow State University Full bibliography from 1957 to 2009
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1929 births
2007 deaths