Plebeian Modernity Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 1906-1916
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
25.01.2018
Verlag
Boydell & Brewer LtdSeitenzahl
288
Maße (L/B/H)
23,5/15,7/2,2 cm
Gewicht
580 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-58046-905-0
Covering the interrevolutionary decade of 1906-16 in imperial Russia, the book tells the story of the "silent majority" of urban inhabitants in four major cities: Vilna (today Vilnius, Lithuania), Odessa (in today's Ukraine), Kazan, and Nizhny Novgorod. Representatives of underprivileged social groups made up some ninety percent of city populations during this period, yet produced hardly one percent of the surviving written sources. In fact, these people, many of them migrants from the countryside, existed in a nondiscursive environment: they usually did not read newspapers, rarely authored written documents, and had little exposure to public discourse. They often did not even speak a common language. Our understanding of the experiences of this population has until recently been based largely on interpretations by educated observers (journalists, legal experts, scholars). whose testimonies reflected the cultural stereotypes of the time. This book bypasses such mediation, arguing that we can come to know the authentic voices of urban commoners by reading their social practices as a nonverbal language. Toward that end, author Ilya Gerasimov closely examines newspaper criminal chronicles, police reports, and anonymous extortion letters, reconstructing typical social practices among this segment of Russian society. The resulting picture represents the distinctive phenomenon of a "plebeian modernity," one that helped shape the outlook of early Soviet society. Ilya Gerasimov is a founding editor of Ab Imperio Quarterly. He has a PhD in Russian history from Rutgers University.
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