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The human tradition in imperial Russia / edited by Christine D. Worobec.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Human tradition around the world
- The human tradition around the world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russia--Social conditions.
- Russia.
- Social conditions.
- Russia--History--1613-1917.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 179 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2009]
- Summary:
- Sweeping across more than two centuries, this compelling book introduces readers to some of the major themes in Imperial Russia. In a set of engaging essays, the contributors present richly human stories of individual and group experiences, as well as of key events in Russian history. We see the effects of reforms; the consequences of an economy and society built on serfdom; as well as the development of a civil society, the 'woman question, ' urbanization, secularization, and modernity. As this book vividly shows, individuals, groups, and events raised out of obscurity remind us of the messiness of everyday life; of people's dreams, frustrations, and transformations; as well as of their sense of self and the community around them
- Contents:
- Fashion and the rise of consumer capitalism in Russia / Christine Ruane
- How one runaway peasant challenged the authority of the Russian state : the case against Mar'ia Semenova / Christine D. Worobec
- Life on the river : the education of a merchant youth / David L. Ransel
- The good society of Russian enlightenment theater / Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
- The 1827 peasant uprising at Bernovo / Rodney D. Bohac
- Reframing public and private space in mid-nineteenth-century Russia : the triumvirate of Anna Filosofova, Nadezhda Stasova, and Mariia Trubnikova / Rochelle G. Ruthchild
- Happy birthday, Siberia! : reform and public opinion in Russia's "colony," 1881-1882 / William B. Husband
- Life in the big city : migrants cope with "daily events" / Laura L. Phillips
- Freedom and its limitations : a peasant wife seeks to escape her abusive husband / Barbara Alpern Engel
- "She done him in" : marital breakdown in a Jewish family / ChaeRan Y. Freeze
- Serving the household, asserting the self : urban domestic servant activism, 1900-1917 / Rebecca Spagnolo
- Plebeian poets in fin de siècle Russia : stories of the self / Mark D. Steinberg.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780742537361
- 0742537366
- 9780742537378
- 0742537374
- 9780742557901
- 0742557901
- OCLC:
- 244661160
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