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Between tsar and people : educated society and the quest for public identity in late imperial Russia /

This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the social and cultural life of late imperial Russia describes the struggle of new elites to take up a "middle position" in society--between tsar and people. During this period autonomous social and cultural institutions, pluralistic political...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Clowes, Edith W. (Editor ), Kassow, Samuel D. (Editor ), West, James L., 1944- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, c[1991]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Part One: The Problem
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: The Problem of the Middle in Late Imperial Russian Society
  • Chapter 2: The Terms of Russian Social History
  • Chapter 3: The Twilit Middle Class of Nineteenth-Century Russia
  • Part Two: The Search for the ""Russian Bourgeoisie
  • Chapter 4: The Riabushinsky Circle: Burzhuaziia and Obshchestvennost' in Late Imperial Russia
  • Chapter 5: The Search for a Russian Orthodox Work Ethic
  • Chapter 6: Impediments to a Bourgeois Consciousness in Russia, 1880-1905: The Estate Structure, Ethnic Diversity, and Economic Regionalism
  • Part Three: Merchant Patronage and Social Consciousness
  • Chapter 7: Pavel Tretiakov and Merchant Art Patronage, 1850-1900
  • Chapter 8: The Moscow Art Market
  • Part Four: The Emergence of a Civil Society
  • Chapter 9: Voluntary Associations, Civic Culture, and Obshchestvennosf in Moscow
  • Chapter 10: Ideology, Identity, and the Emergence of a Middle Class
  • Chapter 11: The Zemstvo and the Development of a Russian Middle Class
  • Part Five: The Professionalization of the Intelligentsia
  • Chapter 12: The Problem of Professions in Imperial Russia
  • Chapter 13: Cultural Pioneers and Professionals: The Teacher in Society
  • Part Six: The Creation of a Public Culture Beneath the Elites
  • Chapter 14: ''Going to the Intelligentsia"": The Church and Its Urban Mission in Post-Reform Russia
  • Chapter 15: V. M. Doroshevich: The Newspaper Journalist and the Development of Public Opinion in Civil Society
  • Chapter 16: The Lower Middle Strata in Revolutionary Russia
  • Part Seven : New Social Sensibilities in the Arts
  • Chapter 17: Social Discourse in the Moscow Art Theater
  • Chapter 18: Redefining the Intellectual's Role: Maksim Gorky and the Sreda Circle
  • Chapter 19: Building for the Bourgeoisie: The Quest for a Modern Style in Russian Architecture
  • Chapter 20: A Place for Us: Embourgeoisement and the Art of Konstantin Korovin
  • Part Eight: Conclusions
  • Chapter 21: The Sedimentary Society
  • Chapter 22: Russia's Unrealized Civil Society
  • List of Contributors
  • Index