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Russia on the eve of modernity : popular religion and traditional culture under the last tsars /
Russia on the Eve of Modernity is a pioneering exploration of a world that has been largely destroyed by revolutionary upheavals and obscured in historical memory by scholarly focus on elites. Drawing on traditional religious texts, ethnographic materials and contemporary accounts, this book brings...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | New studies in European history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Russia on the Eve of Modernity is a pioneering exploration of a world that has been largely destroyed by revolutionary upheavals and obscured in historical memory by scholarly focus on elites. Drawing on traditional religious texts, ethnographic materials and contemporary accounts, this book brings to light the ideas and perceptions of the ordinary Russian people of the towns and countryside who continued to live in a pre-modern, non-Western culture that showed great resilience to the very end of the Romanov Empire. Leonid Heretz offers an overview of traditional Russian understandings of the world and its workings, and shows popular responses to events from the assassination of Alexander II to the First World War. This history of ordinary Russians illuminates key themes ranging from peasant monarchism to apocalyptic responses to intrusions from the modern world and will appeal to scholars of Russian history and the history of religion in modern Europe. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 268 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511388798 0511388799 9780511381003 051138100X 9780511383915 0511383916 0511387784 9780511387784 9780511497179 0511497172 9780521169561 0521169569 |