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Skopshchina (sharecropping)

skopshchina

also: скопщина

A sharecropping arrangement common in post-emancipation rural Russia, in which a landholder let land out to a peasant tenant in exchange for a share of the harvest; Chekhov cites it as the economically realistic option a poorly paid sexton would take with a small landholding, in place of the implausible plowing scene in Khlopov's story.

Reading notes

To N. A. Khlopov, 13 February 1888. Moscow. §7 give his land over to be worked on shares
Skopshchina (скопщина / rendered here as "worked on shares"): a sharecropping arrangement common in post-emancipation rural Russia, whereby a landholder let out land to a peasant tenant in exchange for a share of the crop -- the economically realistic alternative Chekhov proposes to the story's implausible plowing scene.

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