Modernism and public reform in late imperial Russia
Subtitle: rural professionals and self-organization, 1905-30
By: Ilya V. Gerasimov.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780230229471
Subjects: Agriculture and politics -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; Peasants -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; Agriculturists -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; Social movements -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; Social change -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; Nationalism -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; Russia -- Rural conditions; Soviet Union -- Rural conditions; Russia -- History -- 1904-1914; Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Structures of mobilization; title: Becoming "progressive" : structural settings and mental mapping of reformism; title: Bringing up a new generation of intelligentsia; title: Transfer of the Italian technology of modernization and birth of the Russian "public agronomy" project; title: pt. 2. Dynamics of modernization; title: The ambivalent role of the state : a conservative patron and a progressive rival; title: The economic foundations of social mobilization; title: From knowledge to influence : building a bridge to the new peasant; title: At the crossroads : coping with modernization as routine; title: pt. 3. Patterns of "nationalization"; title: Nation as motherland; title: Nation as the people; title: Revolutionary nation; title: The dissolution of the "imagined community" : nationalization as expropriation; title: Postscript.