Russia on the Eve of Modernity - Popular Religion and Traditional Culture Under the Last Tsars

Klappentext Pioneering history of the ordinary Russians and their pre-modern, non-Western culture in late Imperial Russia. Zusammenfassung Pioneering history of the ordinary Russians who continued to live in a pre-modern! non-Western culture in late Imperial Russia. Leonid Heretz offers an overview of traditional Russian understandings of the world! illuminating key themes ranging from peasant monarchism to apocalyptic responses to intrusions from the modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The traditional worldview; 2. The old believers: modernization as apocalypse; 3. The sectarians: dualism and secret history; 4. Folk eschatology; 5. The assassination of Alexander II and folk tsarism; 6. Cholera and famine: the demonization of the nobility; 7. The Japanese war: peasant Russia and the wider world; 8. 1905: revolution or reaction?: 9. The great war and the crisis of the traditional culture; Epilogue; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Leonid Heretz, Leonid (Bridgewater State College Heretz, Heretz Leonid, Heretz Leonid
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521169561
• ISBN: 978-0-521-16956-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, HISTORY / Russia / General