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

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Disciplina: 947
• Soggetto topico: National characteristics, Russian - History
• Soggetto geografico: Russia Social conditions; Russia History 1613-1917
• Altri autori: WorobecChristine
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The human tradition in imperial Russia
• ISBN: 1-282-49625-5; 1-4422-0253-X; 9786612496257; 0-7425-5790-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810993903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Human tradition around the world.