and ethnologists working in developing countries, where the peasant economy remains a predominant factor, apply his theory to help understand the nature of the family labour farm. Halil İnalcık, the leading historian of the Ottoman Empire, applied his ideas to peasant land tenure in the Ottoman Empire. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Vladimir Megre's Ringing Cedars series have many points in common with Chayanov. References 1888 births 1937 deaths Writers from Moscow Economic historians Agricultural economists Systems scientists Complex systems scientists Soviet sociologists Soviet anthropologists Soviet economists Soviet historians Soviet orientalists Geopoliticians Development specialists Anthropologists of religion Great Purge victims from Russia People executed by the Soviet Union Soviet rehabilitations 20th-century Russian historians 20th-century anthropologists