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Titolo |
The human tradition in imperial Russia / / edited by Christine D. Worobec |
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Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-49625-5 |
1-4422-0253-X |
9786612496257 |
0-7425-5790-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Collana |
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Human tradition around the world |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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National characteristics, Russian - History |
Russia Social conditions |
Russia History 1613-1917 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Sweeping across more than two centuries, this compelling book |
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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 |
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