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Cultures in flux : lower-class values, practices, and resistance in late Imperial Russia / edited by Stephen P. Frank and Mark D. Steinberg.

LIBRA DK222 .C85 1994
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Frank, Stephen, 1955-
Steinberg, Mark D., 1953-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Folklore.
Popular culture.
History.
Russia--Social life and customs--1533-1917.
Russia.
Manners and customs.
Working class--Russia.
Working class.
Peasants--Russia.
Peasants.
Popular culture--Russia--History--19th century.
Folklore--Russia.
Physical Description:
vi, 214 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994.
Summary:
This collection of essays examines the dynamic cultural world of Russia's lower classes during the last decades of the prerevolutionary order.
Contents:
Death ritual among Russian and Ukrainian peasants : linkages between the living and the dead / Christine D. Worobec
Women, men, and the languages of peasant resistance, 1870-1907 / Barbara Alpern Engel
Peasant popular culture and the origins of Soviet authoritarianism / Boris N. Mironov
Confronting the domestic other : rural popular culture and its enemies in Fin-de-Siècle Russia / Stephen P. Frank
Death of the folk song? / Robert A. Rothstein
Shows for the people : public amusement parks in nineteenth-century St. Petersburg / Al'bin M. Konechnyi
For Tsar and Fatherland? Russian popular culture and the first World War / Hubertus F. Jahn
The penny press and its readers / Daniel R. Brower
Worker-authors and the cult of the person / Mark D. Steinberg
Culture besieged : hooliganism and futurism / Joan Neuberger.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0691034354 :
0691001065
OCLC:
29428589

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