Rural Revolutions in Southern UkraineLeonard 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 is particularly interested in the dynamic and multifaceted relations between the region's peasants, European colonists, and Russian estate owners. He gives special attention to the settlement process whereby once free peasants