Obshchestvennostʹ and civic agency in late imperial and Soviet Russia : interface between state and society

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Label

Obshchestvennostʹ and civic agency in late imperial and Soviet Russia : interface between state and society

Title remainder

interface between state and society

Statement of responsibility

edited by Yasuhiro Matsui (professor, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan)

Contributor

• Matsui, Yasuhiro, 1960-
• Matsui, Yasuhiro, 1960-

Subject

• Agent (Philosophy) -- Political aspects -- Russia -- History
• Agent (Philosophy) -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History
• Civil society -- Russia -- History
• Civil society -- Soviet Union -- History
• Political participation -- Russia -- History
• Political participation -- Soviet Union -- History
• Russia -- Politics and government -- 1801-1917
• Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917
• Soviet Union -- Politics and government
• Soviet Union -- Social conditions

Language

eng

Summary

"In modernizing Russia, obshchestvennostʹ, an indigenous Russian word, began functioning as an indispensable term to illuminate newly emerging active parts of society and their public identities. This volume approaches various phenomena associated with obshchestvennostʹ across the revolutionary divide of 1917, targeting a critic and the commercial press in the late Imperial society, workers and the public opinion in the revolutionary turmoil of 1905, the liberals during the First World War, worker-peasant correspondents in the 1920s, community activists in the 1930s, medical professionals under late Stalinism, people's vigilante groups and comrade courts throughout the 1950s-1960s and Soviet dissidents. Furthermore, focusing on obshchestvennost' as a strategic word appealing to active citizens for political goals, this book illustrates how the state elites and counter-elites used this word and sought a new form of state-society relation derived from their visions of progress during the late imperial and Soviet Russia"--

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• Online access with purchase: Palgrave Connect (History Collection)
• Online access with purchase: Springer

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

LGG

Dewey number

306.0947

Index

no index present

LC call number

HN523

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography