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Book SynopsisThe 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 ContentsContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction31Death 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