Between Tsar and People: Educated Society and the Quest for Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia

Published by Princeton University Press 1991

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

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691225265

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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.

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"A short review cannot do justice to the importance of this collection of essays ... the work of a rising middle generation and several more senior historians of Russia. Centering on the theme of the interrelationship between social change and the search for new patterns of social identity that could define and perhaps unite emerging 'middling' groups in Russian society in the late Imperial period."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
PART ONE The Problem
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM OF THE MIDDLE IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN SOCIETY Samuel D. Kassow, James L. West and Edith W. Clowes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 THE TERMS OF RUSSIAN SOCIAL HISTORY Abbott Gleason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 3 THE TWILIT MIDDLE CLASS OF NINETEENTHCENTURY RUSSIA Sidney Monas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
PART TWO The Search for the "Russian Bourgeoisie"
Chapter 4 THE RIABUSHINSKY CIRCLE: BURZHUAZIIA AND OBSHCHESTVENNOST IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA James L. West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 5 THE SEARCH FOR A RUSSIAN ORTHODOX WORK ETHIC Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter 6 IMPEDIMENTS TO A BOURGEOIS CONSCIOUSNESS IN RUSSIA, 1880-1905: THE ESTATE STRUCTURE, ETHNIC DIVERSITY, AND ECONOMIC REGIONALISM Thomas C. Owen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
PART THREE Merchant Patronage and Social Consciousness
Chapter 7 PAVEL TRETIAKOV AND MERCHANT ART PATRONAGE, 1850-1900 John O. Norman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 8 THE MOSCOW ART MARKET John E. Bowlt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
PART FOUR The Emergence of a Civil Society
Chapter 9 VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS, CIVIC CULTURE, AND OBSHCHESTVENNOST IN MOSCOW Joseph Bradley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter 10 IDEOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND THE EMERGENCE OF A MIDDLE CLASS William G. Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Chapter 11 THE ZEMSTVO AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RUSSIAN MIDDLE CLASS Charles E. Timberlake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
PART FIVE The Professionalization of the Intelligentsia
Chapter 12 THE PROBLEM OF PROFESSIONS IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA Harley Balzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Chapter 13 CULTURAL PIONEERS AND PROFESSIONALS: THE TEACHER IN SOCIETY Christine Ruane and Ben Eklof Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
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 Gregory L. Freeze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Chapter 15 V. M. DOROSHEVICH: THE NEWSPAPER JOURNALIST AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC OPINION IN CIVIL SOCIETY Louise McReynolds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Chapter 16 THE LOWER MIDDLE STRATA IN REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA Daniel Orlovsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
PART SEVEN New Social Sensibilities in the Arts
Chapter 17 SOCIAL DISCOURSE IN THE MOSCOW ART THEATER Edith W. Clowes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Chapter 18 REDEFINING THE INTELLECTUAL'S ROLE: MAKSIM GORKY AND THE SREDA CIRCLE Mary Louise Loe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Chapter 19 BUILDING FOR THE BOURGEOISIE: THE QUEST FOR A MODERN STYLE IN RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE William C. Brumfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	308
Chapter 20 A PLACE FOR US: EMBOURGEOISEMENT AND THE ART OF KONSTANTIN KOROVIN James M. Curtis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
PART EIGHT Conclusions
Chapter 21 THE SEDIMENTARY SOCIETY Alfred J. Rieber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Chapter 22 RUSSIA'S UNREALIZED CIVIL SOCIETY Samuel D. Kassow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375