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The human tradition in imperial Russia /

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 eff...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Worobec, Christine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2009.
Colección:Human tradition around the world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.