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Author | : Natalʹi︠a︡ Borisovna Selunskai︠a︡ |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Democratization |
ISBN | : 9780982631416 |
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Author | : Reginald E. Zelnik |
Publisher | : International and Area Studies University of California B El |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Deborah Lee Pearl |
Publisher | : Slavica Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Politics and literature |
ISBN | : 9780893574222 |
Download Creating a Culture of Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Creating a culture of revolution -- Tales of revolution : propaganda skazki -- Political economy for workers -- The revolutionary songbook : poetry and song -- The revolutionary novel : foreign literature in translation
Author | : Jeffrey Brooks |
Publisher | : Studies in Russian Literature |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780810118973 |
Download When Russia Learned to Read Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The rise of literacy in late nineteenth-century Russia, and its influence on "high literature" and low, and on economic development
Author | : Tomila V. Lankina |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2021-12-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1009080393 |
Download The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A devastating challenge to the idea of communism as a 'great leveller', this extraordinarily original, rigorous, and ambitious book debunks Marxism-inspired accounts of its equalitarian consequences. It is the first study systematically to link the genesis of the 'bourgeoisie-cum-middle class' – Imperial, Soviet, and post-communist – to Tzarist estate institutions which distinguished between nobility, clergy, the urban merchants and meshchane, and peasants. It demonstrates how the pre-communist bourgeoisie, particularly the merchant and urban commercial strata but also the high human capital aristocracy and clergy, survived and adapted in Soviet Russia. Under both Tzarism and communism, the estate system engendered an educated, autonomous bourgeoisie and professional class, along with an oppositional public sphere, and persistent social cleavages that continue to plague democratic consensus. This book also shows how the middle class, conventionally bracketed under one generic umbrella, is often two-pronged in nature – one originating among the educated estates of feudal orders, and the other fabricated as part of state-induced modernization.
Author | : Cathy A. Frierson |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2012-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295801468 |
Download All Russia Is Burning! Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia, as Cathy Frierson shows in this first comprehensive study. Destroying almost three billion rubles’ worth of property in European Russia between 1860 and 1904, accidental and arson fires acted as a brake on Russia’s economic development while subjecting peasants to perennial shocks to their physical and emotional condition. The fire question captured the attention of educated, progressive Russians, who came to perceived it as a key obstacle to Russia’s becoming a modern society in the European model. Using sources ranging from literary representations and newspaper articles to statistical tables and court records, Frierson demonstrates the many meanings fire held for both peasants and the educated elite. To peasants, it was an essential source of light and warmth as well as a destructive force that regularly ignited their cramped villages of wooden, thatch-roofed huts. Absent the rule of law, they often used arson to gain justice or revenge, or to exert social control over those who would violate village norms. Frierson shows that the vast majority of arson cases in European Russia were not peasant-against-gentry acts of protest but peasant-against-peasant acts of "self-help" law or plain spite. Both the state and individual progressives set out to resolve the fire question and to educate, cajole, or coerce the peasantry into the modern world. Fire insurance, building codes, "scientific" village layouts, and volunteer firefighting brigades reduced the average number of buildings consumed in each blaze, but none of these measures succeeded in curbing the number of fires each year. More than anything else, this history of fire and arson in rural European Russia is a history of their cultural meanings in the late imperial campaign for modernity. Frierson shows the special associations of women with fire in rural life and in elite understanding of fire in the Russian countryside. Her study of the fire question demonstrates both peasant agency in fighting fire and educated Russians' hardening conviction that peasants stood in the way of Russia's advent into the company of prosperous, rational, civilized nations.
Author | : Susanna Rabow-Edling |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351370308 |
Download Liberalism in Pre-revolutionary Russia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals were faced with a dilemma. They had to choose between modernizing their country, thus imitating the West, or reaffirming what was perceived as their country's own values and thereby risk remaining socially underdeveloped and unable to compete with Western powers. Scholars have argued that this led to the emergence of an anti-Western, anti-modern ethnic nationalism. In this innovative book, Susanna Rabow-Edling shows that there was another solution to the conflicting agendas of modernization and cultural authenticity – a Russian liberal nationalism. This nationalism took various forms during the long nineteenth century, but aimed to promote reforms through a combination of liberalism, nationalism and imperialism.
Author | : Joseph Bradley |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2009-10-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0674053605 |
Download Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On the eve of World War I, Russia, not known as a nation of joiners, had thousands of voluntary associations. Joseph Bradley examines the crucial role of voluntary associations in the development of civil society in Russia from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
Author | : Stefan B. Kirmse |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108499430 |
Download The Lawful Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An analysis of law and imperial rule reveals that Tsarist Russia was far more 'lawful' than generally assumed.
Author | : Emily D. Johnson |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2006-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271030372 |
Download How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the bookshops of present-day St. Petersburg, guidebooks abound. Both modern descriptions of Russia’s old imperial capital and lavish new editions of pre-Revolutionary texts sell well, primarily attracting an audience of local residents. Why do Russians read one- and two-hundred-year-old guidebooks to a city they already know well? In How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself, Emily Johnson traces the Russian fascination with local guides to the idea of kraevedenie. Kraevedenie (local studies) is a disciplinary tradition that in Russia dates back to the early twentieth century. Practitioners of kraevedenie investigate local areas, study the ways human society and the environment affect each other, and decipher the semiotics of space. They deconstruct urban myths, analyze the conventions governing the depiction of specific regions and towns in works of art and literature, and dissect both outsider and insider perceptions of local population groups. Practitioners of kraevedenie helped develop and popularize the Russian guidebook as a literary form. Johnson traces the history of kraevedenie, showing how St. Petersburg–based scholars and institutions have played a central role in the evolution of the discipline. Distinguished from obvious Western equivalents such as cultural geography and the German Heimatkunde by both its dramatic history and unique social significance, kraevedenie has, for close to a hundred years, served as a key forum for expressing concepts of regional and national identity within Russian culture. How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself is published in collaboration with the Harriman Institute at Columbia University as part of its Studies of the Harriman Institute series.