Modernism and Public Reform in Late Imperial Russia [electronic resource] : Rural Professionals and Self-Organization, 1905–30 /
Gerasimov, I.author.
This book is a comprehensive reconstruction of the successful attempt by rural professionals in late imperial Russia to engage peasants in a common public sphere. Covers a range of aspects, from personal income and the dynamics of the job market to ideological conflicts and psychological transformation. Based on hundreds of individual life stories.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Structures of mobilization -- Becoming "progressive" : structural settings and mental mapping of reformism -- Bringing up a new generation of intelligentsia -- Transfer of the Italian technology of modernization and birth of the Russian "public agronomy" project -- pt. 2. Dynamics of modernization -- The ambivalent role of the state : a conservative patron and a progressive rival -- The economic foundations of social mobilization -- From knowledge to influence : building a bridge to the new peasant -- At the crossroads : coping with modernization as routine -- pt. 3. Patterns of "nationalization" -- Nation as motherland -- Nation as the people -- Revolutionary nation -- The dissolution of the "imagined community" : nationalization as expropriation -- Postscript.
This book is a comprehensive reconstruction of the successful attempt by rural professionals in late imperial Russia to engage peasants in a common public sphere. Covers a range of aspects, from personal income and the dynamics of the job market to ideological conflicts and psychological transformation. Based on hundreds of individual life stories.
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