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Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia /

"" ... A marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution ... The translation is superb.""--Steven Hoch"" ... one of the best ethnographic portraits that we have of the Russian village ... a highly readable text that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Semenova-Ti︠a︡n-Shanskai︠a︡, O. P. (Olʹga Petrovna), 1863-1906 (Author)
Other Authors: Ransel, David L. (Editor, Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Ruso
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1993.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ivan's parents
  • Childbirth, christening, wife beating
  • Childhood
  • Courtship and sexual relations
  • Ivan prepares for marriage
  • Pledging the bride, the bride-show, and marriage
  • Infanticide, emotion, sexual disorder, drink and food
  • Housing, property, trades, budgets, and religious belief
  • - Peasant ideals, work habits, and causes of poverty
  • Court cases and political structure.