A Social and Ecological Approach to Investigate the Condition of Rural Territories in Russia in XVIII-XX centuries
In the article the author proves the importance of the analysis of a social and economic condition of the countryside and prob­lematics of its estimations. Are regarded the historical changes of approaches to estimation, since XVIII century, and is indicated the modernity of these techniques application based on the reason that all tendencies in relation to the irrational land tenure, which have been happening since the serfdom cancel, shown since the period, are reliable at present time.