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The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. This is a collection of essays by Western and Russian scholars who question conventional interpretations and recall neglected stories about popular behavior, politics, and culture.

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ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction31Death Ritual among Russian and Ukrainian Peasants: Linkages between the Living and the Dead112Women, Men, and the Languages of Peasant Resistance, 1870-1907343Peasant Popular Culture and the Origins of Soviet Authoritarianism544Confronting the Domestic Other: Rural Popular Culture and Its Enemies in Fin-de-Siecle Russia745Death of the Folk Song?1086Shows for the People: Public Amusement Parks in Nineteenth-Century St. Petersburg1217For Tsar and Fatherland? Russian Popular Culture and the First World War1318The Penny Press and Its Readers1479Worker-Authors and the Cult of the Person16810Culture Besieged: Hooliganism and Futurism185Select Bibliography205Index211

Cultures in Flux LowerClass Values Practices and

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/07/1994
      ISBN13: 9780691001067, 978-0691001067
      ISBN10: 0691001065

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. This is a collection of essays by Western and Russian scholars who question conventional interpretations and recall neglected stories about popular behavior, politics, and culture.

      Table of Contents
      ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction31Death Ritual among Russian and Ukrainian Peasants: Linkages between the Living and the Dead112Women, Men, and the Languages of Peasant Resistance, 1870-1907343Peasant Popular Culture and the Origins of Soviet Authoritarianism544Confronting the Domestic Other: Rural Popular Culture and Its Enemies in Fin-de-Siecle Russia745Death of the Folk Song?1086Shows for the People: Public Amusement Parks in Nineteenth-Century St. Petersburg1217For Tsar and Fatherland? Russian Popular Culture and the First World War1318The Penny Press and Its Readers1479Worker-Authors and the Cult of the Person16810Culture Besieged: Hooliganism and Futurism185Select Bibliography205Index211

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