Russia on the eve of modernity : popular religion and traditional culture under the last tsars /
Heretz, Leonid.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.
Introduction -- The traditional worldview -- The old believers : modernization as apocalypse -- The sectarians : dualism and secret history -- Folk eschatology -- The assassination of Alexander II (1881) and folk tsarism -- The year of famine and cholera (1891-1892) : the demonization of the nobility -- The Japanese war : peasant Russia and the wider world -- 1905 : revolution or reaction? -- The Great War and the crisis of the traditional culture.
Popular culture