LEADER 03845pam 2200685 a 450 001 996248023103316 005 20230829001109.0 010 $a0-19-507293-6 024 7 $a2027/heb05341 035 $a(CKB)2560000000325997 035 $a(MH)002650123-6 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001335332 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12453545 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001335332 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11273083 035 $a(PQKB)10234386 035 $a(dli)HEB05341 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000012925593 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000325997 100 $a19920204d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPeasant icons $erepresentations of rural people in late nineteenth century Russia /$fCathy A. Frierson 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1993 215 $a1 online resource (x, 248 p. )$cill. ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-19-507294-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index. 327 $aThe 1860's : setting the stage -- Narod : passive, benighted, and simple -- The peasant as judge -- The peasant as rational man of the land -- The communal peasant -- The gray peasant : unadorned and besieged -- Kulak : the village strongman -- Baba : the peasant woman--Virago, Eve, or victim? -- Conclusion. 330 $aIn the thirty years after Russian peasants were emancipated in 1861, they became a major focus of Russian intellectual life. This text is the first to examine the revealing images of the newly-freed peasant created by Russian writers, scholars, journalists, and government officials during the first three decades of the post-Emancipation period, as the identity and fate of the Russian peasant became an integral component in the future of Russian envisioned by liberal reformers and conservatives alike. Frierson introduces students to the stereotypes created by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and other intellectuals seeking to understand village life, from he likable Narod, the simple man of the simple foll, to the exploitative cloak, the village strongman, to the conflicting images of the Russian peasant woman, or Baba, as, alternately, a rural Eve, a virago, or a victim. Researching the elements of social life in rural Russia, including rural concepts of justice, the potential for exploitation in the villages, and the break-up of patriarchal households, Frierson sheds light on the fundamental concepts of the peasantry that influenced not only the way educated Russians of the late nineteenth century approached their rural compatriots, but also the filters through which students and scholars examine the rural culture of late IMperial Russia a century later. 517 1 $aPeasant Icons 606 $aPeasants$zRussia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPeasants in literature 606 $aPeasants$zRussia$xPublic opinion 606 $aStereotypes (Social psychology)$zRussia 606 $aPeasants$xHistory$y19th century$zRussia 606 $aPeasants in literature$xPublic opinion$zRussia 606 $aPeasants$zRussia 606 $aStereotypes (Social psychology) 607 $aRussia$xHistory$yAlexander II, 1855-1881 615 0$aPeasants$xHistory 615 0$aPeasants in literature. 615 0$aPeasants$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aStereotypes (Social psychology) 615 0$aPeasants$xHistory 615 0$aPeasants in literature$xPublic opinion 615 0$aPeasants 615 0$aStereotypes (Social psychology) 676 $a947.08 700 $aFrierson$b Cathy A$0683096 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248023103316 996 $aPeasant Icons$91261333 997 $aUNISA