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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heretz, Leonid
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Colección:New studies in European history.
Temas:
1801-1917
Popular culture > Russia.
Culture populaire > Russie.
HISTORY.
Civilization
Popular culture
Russia (Federation) > Civilization > 1801-1917.
Russia (Federation) > Religious life and customs.
Russia
Russia (Federation)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The traditional worldview
  • The old believers : modernization as apocalypse
  • The sectarians : dualism and secret history
  • Folk eschatology
  • The assassination of Alexander II (1881) and folk tsarism
  • The year of famine and cholera (1891-1892) : the demonization of the nobility
  • The Japanese war : peasant Russia and the wider world
  • 1905 : revolution or reaction?
  • The Great War and the crisis of the traditional culture.

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