03688nam 2200745 a 450 991045764210332120200520144314.01-283-34150-697866133415010-300-16570-610.12987/9780300165708(CKB)2550000000065916(EBL)3420763(OCoLC)923597048(SSID)ssj0000551876(PQKBManifestationID)11941088(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551876(PQKBWorkID)10537965(PQKB)10963876(MiAaPQ)EBC3420763(DE-B1597)486382(OCoLC)1024051747(DE-B1597)9780300165708(Au-PeEL)EBL3420763(CaPaEBR)ebr10514886(CaONFJC)MIL334150(EXLCZ)99255000000006591620110225d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPetersburg fin de siècle[electronic resource] /Mark D. SteinbergNew Haven Yale University Pressc20111 online resource (412 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-300-16504-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-379) and index.Introduction: Troubled times -- City -- Streets -- Masks -- Death -- Decadence -- Happiness -- Melancholy -- Conclusion.The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers in St. Petersburg described and interpreted the troubled years between the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917.Mark Steinberg, distinguished historian of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examines the work of writers of all kinds, from anonymous journalists to well-known public intellectuals, from secular liberals to religious conservatives. Though diverse in their perspectives, these urban writers were remarkably consistent in the worries they expressed. They grappled with the impact of technological and material progress on the one hand, and with an ever-deepening anxiety and pessimism on the other. Steinberg reveals a new, darker perspective on the history of St. Petersburg on the eve of revolution and presents a fresh view of Russia's experience of modernity.City and town lifeRussia (Federation)Saint PetersburgHistorySocial changeRussia (Federation)Saint PetersburgHistoryModernism (Aesthetics)Russia (Federation)Saint PetersburgHistoryPopular cultureRussia (Federation)Saint PetersburgHistorySocial problemsRussia (Federation)Saint PetersburgHistorySaint Petersburg (Russia)Civilization19th centurySaint Petersburg (Russia)Civilization20th centurySaint Petersburg (Russia)Intellectual lifeSaint Petersburg (Russia)Social conditionsElectronic books.City and town lifeHistory.Social changeHistory.Modernism (Aesthetics)History.Popular cultureHistory.Social problemsHistory.947/.21083Steinberg Mark D.1953-924387MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457642103321Petersburg fin de siècle2448858UNINA