The City in late imperial Russia
By: edited by Michael F. Hamm.
Contributors: Hamm, Michael F.; American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
Series: Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780253313706
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Russia -- History; Urbanization -- Russia -- History; Russia -- Economic conditions -- 1861-1917
Description: From the Great Reforms that began in the 1860s to the revolutions of 1917, the Russian Empire experienced a period of explosive urban growth. The City in Late Imperial Russia examines this process and the changes it brought in eight of the Empire's largest cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Warsaw, Riga, Odessa, Tiflis, and Baku. Individual chapters on each of these cities discussed changes in the economic fabric of the city and in the occupational and ethnic composition of the urban population. The quality of urban life, the nature and effectiveness of municipal government, and the possible impact of the changing environment on the growth of new forms of conflict and new attitudes toward community are also examined. Drawing on memoirs and literary sources as well as archival materials, published documents, and newspapers, the authors convey the flavor of city life and the personality of the urban population, highlighting each city's distinctive features as well as characteristics each had in common. - Jacket flap.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [355]-359.
Papers from a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, held in Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 1983.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Moscow : from big village to metropolis / Joseph Bradley; title: Between old and new : St. Petersburg in the late Imperial era / James H. Bater; title: Continuity and change in late Imperial Kiev / Michael F. Hamm; title: Warsaw : Poles and Jews in a conquered city / Stephen D. Corrsin; title: Riga : growth, conflict, and the limitations of good government, 1850-1914 / Anders Henriksson; title: Odessa and the problem of urban modernzation / Frederick W. Skinner; title: Tiflis : crucible of ethnic politics, 1860-1905 / Ronald Grigor Suny; title: Baku : transformation of a Muslim town / Audrey Altstadt-Mirhadi; title: Urban revolution in the late Russian Empire / Daniel R. Brower