A generation of revolutionaries : Nikolai Charushin and Russian populism from the Great reforms to Perestroika / Ben Eklof, Tatiana Saburova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eklof, Ben, 1946-2023, author.

Saburova, T. A. (Tatʹi︠a︡na Anatolʹevna), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charushin, Nikolaĭ Apollonovich, 1851-1937.

Charushin, Nikolaĭ Apollonovich.

Revolutionaries--Soviet Union--Biography.

Revolutionaries.

Populism--Russia.

Populism.

Populism--Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Nikolai Charushin's memoirs of his experience as a member of the revolutionary populist movement in Russia are familiar to historians, but A Generation of Revolutionaries provides a broader and more engaging look at the lives and relationships beyond these memoirs. It shows how, after years of incarceration, Charushin and friends thrived in Siberian exile, raising children and contributing to science and culture there. While Charushin's memoirs end with his return to European Russia, this sweeping biography follows this group as they engaged in Russia's fin de siecle society, took part in the 1917 revolution, and struggled in its aftermath. A Generation of Revolutionaries provides vibrant and deeply personal insights into the turbulent history of Russia from the Great Reforms to the era of Stalinism and beyond. In doing so, it tells the story of a remarkable circle of friends whose lives balanced love, family and career with exile, imprisonment, and revolution."--Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Cover

A GENERATION OF REVOLUTIONARIES

Title

Copyright

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction: Remembrances of a Distant Past

About the Main Heroes of this Book

Metanarrative and Biography: Lives Obscure and Less So

Generational History and Memory Studies

Examining Russian Populism as a Movement

A Cooperative Endeavor

1 Beginnings: How to Become a Revolutionary

In His Own Words

Untrammeled Childhoods?

School Days in Viatka (1862-1871)

Crossing a Societal Threshold: Salon Culture in Viatka

Last Days and Departure

Searching for the Roots of Radicalism

2 The Seventies Generation: Young Revolutionaries and the Chaikovskii Circle

The Chaikovskii Circle

From Student to Revolutionary

Generational Tropes: Youthfulness and a Debt to the People

Moral Standards

Influences on Young Minds: Chernyshevskii and Pushkin?

Lavrov or Bakunin? Polarities in Populist Thought

On Constitutions and Lassalle

The Impact of the Paris Commune (1871)

Overcoming Backwardness and the Zemstvo

Book Matters: The Cause of the Book

Learning about the Common People

Diverse Views, Intact Networks

3 The Male Gaze and Female Profile: Marriage, Family, Populism

The Male Gaze

Self-Portraits

"My Unfailing Partner and Comrade in Life"

"My Lovey, My Dovey": Authenticity, Mutuality, and Joint Commitment

How Joyful It Is to Have Children . . . !

"Domestic Bothers such as Washing Up and Cleaning"

We Are Like Siamese Twins: Final Partings

"My Husband No Longer Posed an Obstacle"

Uniform Life Scenarios? The "Woman Question" Revisited

4 "Punishment Harsh and Cruel": The Experience of Incarceration (1874-1878)

Arrests

Prison Memoirs

"A Gray Hospital Robe"

"New Accommodations": Spatial Dimensions of the Cell

"Around Us Reigned the Stultifying Silence of the Grave".

"The Variety of the Menu Selections Was Surprising"

"A Hunger Strike Not for Three to Four Days, but Until the Bitter End"

"Time Dragged on Torturously and Without Purpose"

Meaningful Activities

"I Yearned to See People and Hear Live Voices"

"The Potential for Going Mad Terrified Me"

Escape

"The Great Trial of the 193"

5 Seventeen Years in Siberia: Hard Labor, Exile, and Photography

"You Are Being Sentenced to Siberia"

Perceptions of Siberia

The Road

At the Kara Place Mines and Prison Colony

Charushin and Kononovich: "Even the Jailer Weeps at Times"

Life as a Penal Colonist: Nerchinsk (1881-1886)

A Revolutionary Turns to Photography

"The Call of Our First Homeland Was Stronger Than Attachment to the Second One"

6 Return to European Russia: Family Ties, Networks of Exiles, and the Zemstvo (1895-1905)

The Charushin Household: Domesticity and Extended Family

Networks of Exiles Renewed and Expanded

Zemstvo Ties

Book Matters

Nikolai Charushin: Fire-Insurance Agent

Famine Relief: The All-Zemstvo Organization

Encounters with the Peasant World Compared

The Zemstvo on the Eve of 1905

Founding of a Provincial Newspaper

Social Networks in Viatka

7 After October: The Downward Spiral of Revolution

Enter Gorchakov: "Liquidation and Renewal" Policies

Yumashev, the Zemstvo Executive Board and Its Newspaper Viatskaia Gazeta

Charushin's Newspaper Under Fire: Kuvshinskaia's Exile

Forced Resignation from the Zemstvo

The "Urzhum Brothers" and Family Matters

The "Saltykov Affair" and Departure from the Famine Relief Organization

The "Viatka Warlord" Exits: Accountability and the Press

In the Aftermath: Looking to the Future

8 The Revolution Followed Its Own Scenario (1917-1919)

The New Order

"The Joy Was Short Lived . . . Anxiety Overtook Me".

Viatskaia Rech' and the People's Socialist Party

The Peasant Union and the "Old Revolutionary and Freedom Fighter"

"The Deep Countryside Is Mired in Ignorance"

"Everyone Is Fed Up with Empty Phrases and Inaction"

Surely Not All of Russia Is Infected with Bolshevism!

My Position on the Claimants to Power: A Matter of Conscience

Incarceration Redux: Repeating the Trials and Tribulations of Youth

The Revolution Followed Its Own Scenario

9 Remembrances of a Distant Past

"The Thinning Ranks of the Living Among Us"

"I Withdrew Completely From the Arena of Politics": The Library as Refuge and Outlet

"Your Efforts Were All in Vain": The Turn to Writing Memoirs

"I Urge You to Write Down Your Recollections"

Collective Autobiography and Traveling Narratives

Charushin Lauded and Rewarded

Memory Wars

"We Need More Bolshevik Vigilance!"

"Still, I Am Not Yet Ready to Give Up . . . "

10 In Search of the Real Charushin in the Perestroika Era

Emerging from the Dustbin of History

Perestroika Memory Wars

In Search of the Real Charushin

Conclusion

Biographical Sketches

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253031259

0253031257

OCLC:

1007494619