Between Tsar and People Educated Society and the Quest for Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia / ed ; by Edith W. Clowes, Samuel D. Kassow and James L. West.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

West, James L., 1944- Editor.

Kassow, Samuel D., Editor.

Clowes, Edith W., Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1991.

Summary:

This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the social and cultural life of late imperial Russia describes the struggle of new elites to take up a "middle position" in society--between tsar and people. During this period autonomous social and cultural institutions, pluralistic political life, and a dynamic economy all seemed to be emerging: Russia was experiencing a sense of social possibility akin to that which Gorbachev wishes to reanimate in the Soviet Union. But then, as now, diversity had as its price the potential for political disorder and social dissolution. Analyzing the attempt of educated Russians to forge new identities, this book reveals the social, cultural, and regional fragmentation of the times. The contributors are Harley Balzer, John E. Bowlt, Joseph Bradley, William C. Brumfield, Edith W. Clowes, James M. Curtis, Ben Eklof, Gregory L. Freeze, Abbott Gleason, Samuel D. Kassow, Mary Louise Loe, Louise McReynolds, Sidney Monas, John O. Norman, Daniel T. Orlovsky, Thomas C. Owen, Alfred Rieber, Bernice G. Rosenthal, Christine Ruane, Charles E. Timberlake, William Wagner, and James L. West. Samuel D. Kassow has written a conclusion to the volume.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

PART ONE The Problem

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM OF THE MIDDLE IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN SOCIETY

Chapter 2 THE TERMS OF RUSSIAN SOCIAL HISTORY

Chapter 3 THE TWILIT MIDDLE CLASS OF NINETEENTHCENTURY RUSSIA

PART TWO The Search for the "Russian Bourgeoisie"

Chapter 4 THE RIABUSHINSKY CIRCLE: BURZHUAZIIA AND OBSHCHESTVENNOST IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA

Chapter 5 THE SEARCH FOR A RUSSIAN ORTHODOX WORK ETHIC

Chapter 6 IMPEDIMENTS TO A BOURGEOIS CONSCIOUSNESS IN RUSSIA, 1880-1905: THE ESTATE STRUCTURE, ETHNIC DIVERSITY, AND ECONOMIC REGIONALISM

PART THREE Merchant Patronage and Social Consciousness

Chapter 7 PAVEL TRETIAKOV AND MERCHANT ART PATRONAGE, 1850-1900

Chapter 8 THE MOSCOW ART MARKET

PART FOUR The Emergence of a Civil Society

Chapter 9 VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS, CIVIC CULTURE, AND OBSHCHESTVENNOST IN MOSCOW

Chapter 10 IDEOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND THE EMERGENCE OF A MIDDLE CLASS

Chapter 11 THE ZEMSTVO AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RUSSIAN MIDDLE CLASS

PART FIVE The Professionalization of the Intelligentsia

Chapter 12 THE PROBLEM OF PROFESSIONS IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA

Chapter 13 CULTURAL PIONEERS AND PROFESSIONALS: THE TEACHER IN SOCIETY

PART SIX The Creation of a Public Culture Beneath the Elites

Chapter 14 "GOING TO THE INTELLIGENTSIA": THE CHURCH AND ITS URBAN MISSION IN POST-REFORM RUSSIA

Chapter 15 V. M. DOROSHEVICH: THE NEWSPAPER JOURNALIST AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC OPINION IN CIVIL SOCIETY

Chapter 16 THE LOWER MIDDLE STRATA IN REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA

PART SEVEN New Social Sensibilities in the Arts

Chapter 17 SOCIAL DISCOURSE IN THE MOSCOW ART THEATER

Chapter 18 REDEFINING THE INTELLECTUAL'S ROLE: MAKSIM GORKY AND THE SREDA CIRCLE

Chapter 19 BUILDING FOR THE BOURGEOISIE: THE QUEST FOR A MODERN STYLE IN RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE

Chapter 20 A PLACE FOR US: EMBOURGEOISEMENT AND THE ART OF KONSTANTIN KOROVIN

PART EIGHT Conclusions

Chapter 21 THE SEDIMENTARY SOCIETY

Chapter 22 RUSSIA'S UNREALIZED CIVIL SOCIETY

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691031538

0691031533

OCLC:

1273306193