Russia on the Eve of Modernity : Popular Religion and Traditional Culture under the Last Tsars.
Pioneering history of the ordinary Russians and their pre-modern, non-Western culture in late Imperial Russia.
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | New studies in European history.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The traditional worldview; Chapter 2 The Old Believers: modernization as apocalypse; Chapter 3 The sectarians: dualism and secret history; Chapter 4 Folk eschatology; Chapter 5 The assassination of Alexander II (1881) and folk Tsarism; Chapter 6 The year of famine and cholera (1891-1892): demonization of the nobility; Chapter 7 The Japanese War: peasant Russia and the wider world; Chapter 8 1905 : revolution or reaction?
- Chapter 9 The Great War and the crisis of the traditional cultureEpilogue; Bibliography; Index.