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

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Label

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

Title remainder

educated society and the quest for public identity in late imperial Russia

Statement of responsibility

edited by Edith W. Clowes, Samuel D. Kassow, and James L. West

Contributor

• Clowes, Edith W
• Kassow, Samuel D
• West, James L., 1944-

Subject

• Intellectuals -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
• Middle class -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
• Russia -- History -- Alexander II, 1855-1881
• Russia -- History -- Alexander III, 1881-1894
• Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917
• Russia -- Intellectual life -- 1801-1917

Language

eng

Summary

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 life, and a dynamic economy all seemed to be emerging: Russia was experiencing a sense of social possibility akin to that which Gorbachev wishes to reanimate in the Soviet Union. But then, as now, diversity had as its price the potential for political disorder and social dissolution. Analyzing the attempt of educated Russians to forge new identities, this book reveals the social, cultural, and regional fragmentation of the times

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DCC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction