Between Tsar and People : : Educated Society and the Quest for Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia / / ed. by James L. West, Samuel D. Kassow, Edith W. Clowes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Balzer, Harley,; Bowlt, John E.,; Bradley, Joseph,; Brumfield, William C.,; Clowes, Edith W.,; Curtis, James M.,; Eklof, Ben,; Freeze, Gregory L.,; Gleason, Abbott,; Kassow, Samuel D.,; Loe, Mary Louise,; McReynolds, Louise,; Monas, Sidney,; Norman, John O.,; Orlovsky, Daniel,; Owen, Thomas C.,; Rieber, Alfred J.,; Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer,; Ruane, Christine,; Timberlake, Charles E.,; Wagner, William G.,; West, James L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Clowes, Edith W.,; Kassow, Samuel D.,; West, James L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the social and cultural life of late imperial Russia describes the struggle of new elites to take up a "middle position" in society--between tsar and people. During this period autonomous social and cultural institutions, pluralistic political life, and a dynamic economy all seemed to be emerging: Russia was experiencing a sense of social possibility akin to that which Gorbachev wishes to reanimate in the Soviet Union. But then, as now, diversity had as its price the potential for political disorder and social dissolution. Analyzing the attempt of educated Russians to forge new identities, this book reveals the social, cultural, and regional fragmentation of the times. The contributors are Harley Balzer, John E. Bowlt, Joseph Bradley, William C. Brumfield, Edith W. Clowes, James M. Curtis, Ben Eklof, Gregory L. Freeze, Abbott Gleason, Samuel D. Kassow, Mary Louise Loe, Louise McReynolds, Sidney Monas, John O. Norman, Daniel T. Orlovsky, Thomas C. Owen, Alfred Rieber, Bernice G. Rosenthal, Christine Ruane, Charles E. Timberlake, William Wagner, and James L. West. Samuel D. Kassow has written a conclusion to the volume.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE The Problem -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM OF THE MIDDLE IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN SOCIETY -- Chapter 2 THE TERMS OF RUSSIAN SOCIAL HISTORY -- Chapter 3 THE TWILIT MIDDLE CLASS OF NINETEENTHCENTURY RUSSIA -- PART TWO The Search for the "Russian Bourgeoisie" -- Chapter 4 THE RIABUSHINSKY CIRCLE: BURZHUAZIIA AND OBSHCHESTVENNOST IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA -- Chapter 5 THE SEARCH FOR A RUSSIAN ORTHODOX WORK ETHIC -- Chapter 6 IMPEDIMENTS TO A BOURGEOIS CONSCIOUSNESS IN RUSSIA, 1880-1905: THE ESTATE STRUCTURE, ETHNIC DIVERSITY, AND ECONOMIC REGIONALISM -- PART THREE Merchant Patronage and Social Consciousness -- Chapter 7 PAVEL TRETIAKOV AND MERCHANT ART PATRONAGE, 1850-1900 -- Chapter 8 THE MOSCOW ART MARKET -- PART FOUR The Emergence of a Civil Society -- Chapter 9 VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS, CIVIC CULTURE, AND OBSHCHESTVENNOST IN MOSCOW -- Chapter 10 IDEOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND THE EMERGENCE OF A MIDDLE CLASS -- Chapter 11 THE ZEMSTVO AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RUSSIAN MIDDLE CLASS -- PART FIVE The Professionalization of the Intelligentsia -- Chapter 12 THE PROBLEM OF PROFESSIONS IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA -- Chapter 13 CULTURAL PIONEERS AND PROFESSIONALS: THE TEACHER IN SOCIETY -- PART SIX The Creation of a Public Culture Beneath the Elites -- Chapter 14 "GOING TO THE INTELLIGENTSIA": THE CHURCH AND ITS URBAN MISSION IN POST-REFORM RUSSIA -- Chapter 15 V. M. DOROSHEVICH: THE NEWSPAPER JOURNALIST AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC OPINION IN CIVIL SOCIETY -- Chapter 16 THE LOWER MIDDLE STRATA IN REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA -- PART SEVEN New Social Sensibilities in the Arts -- Chapter 17 SOCIAL DISCOURSE IN THE MOSCOW ART THEATER -- Chapter 18 REDEFINING THE INTELLECTUAL'S ROLE: MAKSIM GORKY AND THE SREDA CIRCLE -- Chapter 19 BUILDING FOR THE BOURGEOISIE: THE QUEST FOR A MODERN STYLE IN RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE -- Chapter 20 A PLACE FOR US: EMBOURGEOISEMENT AND THE ART OF KONSTANTIN KOROVIN -- PART EIGHT Conclusions -- Chapter 21 THE SEDIMENTARY SOCIETY -- Chapter 22 RUSSIA'S UNREALIZED CIVIL SOCIETY -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX