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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Christine D. Worobec Klappentext Sweeping across more than two centuries, this compelling book introduces readers to some of the major themes in Imperial Russia. In a set of engaging essays, the contributors present richly human stories of individual and group experiences, as well as of key events in Russian history. We see the effects of reforms; the consequences of an economy and society built on serfdom; as well as the development of a civil society, the 'woman question, ' urbanization, secularization, and modernity. As this book vividly shows, individuals, groups, and events raised out of obscurity remind us of the messiness of everyday life; of people's dreams, frustrations, and transformations; as well as of their sense of self and the community around them Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: Fashion and the Rise of Consumer Capitalism in RussiaChapter 2: How One Runaway Peasant Challenged the Authority of the Russian State: The Case Against Maria SemenovaChapter 3: Life on the River: The Education of a Merchant YouthChapter 4: The Good Society of Russian Enlightenment TheaterChapter 5: The 1827 Peasant Uprising at BernovoChapter 6: Reframing Public and Private Space in Mid-Nineteenth Century Russia: The Triumvirate of Anna Filosofova, Nadezhda Stasova, and Mariia TrubnikovaChapter 7: Happy Birthday, Siberia! Reform and Public Opinion in Russia's "Colony," 1881-1882Chapter 8: Life in the Big City: Migrants Cope with "Daily Events"Chapter 9: Freedom and its Limitations: A Peasant Wife Seeks to Escape her Abusive HusbandChapter 10: "She Done Him In": Marital Breakdown in a Jewish FamilyChapter 11: Serving the Household, Asserting the Self: Urban Domestic Servant Activism, 1900-1917Chapter 12: Plebeian Poets in Fin de Siècle Russia: Stories of the Self
