id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 3j333200h1v Monica B. Bykowski The Prince, the Bailiff, and the Mir: Power, Politics, and Agency on a Russian Serf Estate, 1810-1858 1904 .txt text/plain 435 21 52 Consequently, they relied on local institutions – namely the mir, or peasant commune, and estate bailiff – to fulfil their directives and inform them of estate affairs. This agency was possible, despite serfs' legal status as the property of others and place in the soslovie, social estate, hierarchy, because of local social dynamics. cache/3j333200h1v.txt txt/3j333200h1v.txt