List of Tables

1.1 Relationshipofcropyieldstoprecipitation 9

2.1 Average village size in Melitopol uezd, 1821 31

2.2 Mennonite land alocation in 1808 43

3.1 Sheep animal units as a percentage of all AUs 51

3.2 Net grain harvests per Orthodox male soul, 1808-1833 60

3.3 Regression analysis of monthly changes in the price of rye flour and wheat meal, 1817-1822 62

3.4 Net grain harvest per capita in colonist villages, 1805-1832 73

3.5 Landlessness among foreign colonists in Molochna, 1813-1839 77

3.6 Pasture requirements of the Molochna Mennonite settlement, 1825-1835 79

3.7 Occupation of the Mennonite landless population, 1826-1834 82

5.1 Gross grain production in the Molochna Mennonite settlement, 1828-1848 124

5.2 Average annual trade at fairs and total exports from the port of Berdiansk, 1836-1860 133

5.3 Goods imported through Berdiansk, 1860 135

5.4 Goods exported through Berdiansk, 1860 136

5.5 Industrial production in Melitopol and Berdiansk uezds, 1843-1861 137

5.6 Land sown and livestock per Mennonite household, 1835 and 1847 138

5.7 Land sown and livestock held by sharecropping contractors and other Mennonites, 1847 139

6.1 Villages and male souls in Bolshoi Tokmak volost, 1844 155

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6.2 Land sown per male soul in Berdiansk and Melitopol uezds, 1841-1861 156

6.3 Orthodox state peasant harvests in Melitopol and Berdiansk uezds, 1841-1862 159

6.4 Regression analysis of Melitopol and Berdiansk uezd grain prices, 1843-1861 160

6.5 Livestock per male soul in Melitopol and Berdiansk uezds, 1843-1861 161

6.6 Animal units per male soul, excluding merino sheep 162

7.1 Harvests and output/seed ratios in Tavria guberniia, 1845-1861 166

7.2 Colonist transition to arable husbandry, 1837-1861 167

7.3 Economic differentiation in Shuiut Dzhuret, 1836, and Akkerman and Aknokas, 1850 169

A.l Population OfMelitopol uezd, 1804-1841, and Melitopol and Berdiansk uezds, 1842-1861 187

A.2 Livestock in Melitopol uezd, 1805-1842, and Melitopol and Berdiansk uezds, 1843-1861 190

A.3 Nogai grain production, 1804-1831 193