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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454534603321

Titolo

The human tradition in imperial Russia [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Christine D. Worobec

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009

ISBN

1-282-49625-5

1-4422-0253-X

9786612496257

0-7425-5790-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Human tradition around the world

Altri autori (Persone)

WorobecChristine

Disciplina

947

Soggetti

National characteristics, Russian - History

Electronic books.

Russia Social conditions

Russia History 1613-1917

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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 messi