Abuse of power
Adult
Aestheticism
Anathema
Apparitions (TV series)
Before the Revolution
Blood Relations (play)
Bolsheviks
Bylina
Carlo Ginzburg
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Cemetery
Censorship
Cesare Lombroso
Chastushka
Christian burial
Civil disorder
Class action
Communalism (political philosophy)
Comrade
Counterculture
Crime
Cruelty to animals
Cultural geography
Culture and Society
Davydov
Death
Degeneration theory
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Eric Hobsbawm
Fatherland (novel)
Ferdinand Freiligrath
Feuilleton
Francois Rabelais
From Time Immemorial
Good and evil
Grandparent
Herbert J. Gans
His Family
Hostility
Iconoclasm
Intelligentsia
Ivan Bilibin
John M. MacKenzie
Just society
Konstantin Aksakov
Labour movement
Lubok
Markov
Maxim Gorky
Mikhail Bakhtin
Mourner
Muckraker
Newspaper
Obraz (organization)
Obscenity
Of Education
On the Eve
Oppression
Osip Mandelstam
Paganism
Pale of Settlement
Parody
Patriarchy
Peasant
Penny press
Philistinism
Popular culture
Proletarian literature
Prostitution
Public morality
Radical right (United States)
Religion
Revolution of 1905
Richard Pipes
Romani people
Russian avant-garde
Russian culture
Russian formalism
Satire
Serfdom in Russia
Stephen G. Wheatcroft
Stolypin reform
The German War
The Peasants
The Two Cultures
Union of the Russian People
Unnatural death
V.
Victorian morality
Vladimir Korolenko
Vladimir Lebedev (painter)
Volin
Warfare
World War I
Young Widow
Product details
- ISBN 9780691001067
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jul 1994
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. Stephen Frank and Mark Steinberg have gathered here a diverse collection of essays by Western and Russian scholars who question conventional interpretations and recall neglected stories about popular behavior, politics, and culture. What emerges is a new picture of lower-class life, in which traditions and innovations intermingled and social boundaries and identities were battered and reconstructed. The authors vividly convey the vitality as well as the contradictions of social life in old regime Russia, while also confronting problems of interpretation, methodology, and cultural theory. They tell of peasant death rites and religious beliefs, family relationships and brutalities, defiant peasant women, folk songs, urban amusement parks, expressions of popular patriotism, the penny press, workers' notions of the self, street hooliganism, and attempts by educated Russians to transform popular festivities. Together, the authors portray popular culture not as a static, separate world, but as the dynamic means through which lower-class Russians engaged the world around them.
In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Daniel R. Brower, Barbara Alpern Engel, Hubertus F. Jahn, Al'bin M. Konechnyi, Boris N. Mironov, Joan Neuberger, Robert A. Rothstein, and Christine D. Worobec.
Stephen P. Frank is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mark D. Steinberg is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University.
