Between tsar and people : educated society and the quest for public identity in late imperial Russia / edited by Edith W. Clowes, Samuel D. Kassow, and James L. West.

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Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1991.
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Other Authors:
Clowes, Edith W.
Kassow, Samuel D.
West, James L., 1944-
Subjects:
Intellectuals > Russia > History > 19th century.
Middle class > Russia > History > 19th century.
Russia > History > Alexander II, 1855-1881.
Russia > History > Alexander III, 1881-1894.
Russia > History > Nicholas II, 1894-1917.
Russia > Intellectual life > 1801-1917.
Format: Book
Between tsar and people : educated society and the quest for public identity in late imperial Russia /
Table of Contents:
  • I. The problem
  • Introduction : The problem of the middle in late imperial Russian society / Samuel D. Kassow, James L. West, and Edith W. Clowes
  • The terms of Russian social history / Abbott Gleason
  • The twilit middle class of nineteenth-century Russia / Sidney Monas
  • II. The search for the "Russian bourgeoisie"
  • The Riabushinsky circle : Burzhuaziia and Obshchestvennost' in late imperial Russia / James L. West
  • The search for a Russian Orthodox work ethic / Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
  • Impediments to a borgeois consciousness in Russia, 1880-1905 : the estate structure, ethnic diversity, and economic regionalism / Thomas C. Owen
  • III. Merchant patronage and social consciousness
  • Pavel Tretiakov and merchant art patronage, 1850-1900 / John O. Norman
  • The Moscow art market / John E. Bowlt
  • IV. The emergence of a civil society
  • Voluntary associations, civic culture and Obshchestvennost' in Moscow / Joseph Bradley
  • Ideology, identity and the emergence of a middle class / William G. Wagner
  • The Zemstvo and the development of a Russian middle class / Charles E. Timberlake
  • V. The professionalization of the intelligentsia
  • The problem of professions in imperial Russia / Harley Balzer
  • Cultural pioneers and professionals : the teacher in society / Christine Ruane and Ben Eklof
  • VI. The creation of a public culture beneath the elites
  • "Going to the intelligentsia" : the church and its urban mission in post-reform Russia / Gregory L. Freeze
  • V.M. Doroshevich : the newspaper journalist and the development of public opinion in civil society / Louise McReynolds
  • The lower middle class strata in revolutionary Russia / Daniel Orlovsky
  • VII. New social sensibilites in the arts
  • Social discourse in the Moscow Art Theater / Edith W. Clowes
  • Redefining the intellectual's role : Maksim Gorky and the Streda Circle / Mary Louise Loe
  • Building for the bourgeoisie : the quest for a modern style in Russian architecture / William C. Brumfield
  • A place for us : Embourgeoisement and the art of Konstantin Korovin / James M. Curtis
  • VIII. Conclusions
  • The sedimentary society / Alfred J. Rieber
  • Russia's unrealized civil society / Samuel D. Kassow.

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