Obshchestvennostʹ and civic agency in late imperial and Soviet Russia
Subtitle: interface between state and society
By: edited by Yasuhiro Matsui (professor, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke  Hampshire
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137547224
Subjects: Politics and government; Agent (Philosophy); HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism; HISTORY / Revolutionary; HISTORY / Social History; Social conditions; Civil society; History; Political participation; HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Description: "In modernizing Russia, obshchestvennostʹ, an indigenous Russian word, began functioning as an indispensable term to illuminate newly emerging active parts of society and their public identities. This volume approaches various phenomena associated with obshchestvennostʹ across the revolutionary divide of 1917, targeting a critic and the commercial press in the late Imperial society, workers and the public opinion in the revolutionary turmoil of 1905, the liberals during the First World War, worker-peasant correspondents in the 1920s, community activists in the 1930s, medical professionals under late Stalinism, people's vigilante groups and comrade courts throughout the 1950s-1960s and Soviet dissidents. Furthermore, focusing on obshchestvennost' as a strategic word appealing to active citizens for political goals, this book illustrates how the state elites and counter-elites used this word and sought a new form of state-society relation derived from their visions of progress during the late imperial and Soviet Russia"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Russian Critics and Obshchestvennostʹ, 1840-1890 : The Case of Vladimir Stasov / Yukiko Tatsumi; title: 2. From Workers' Milieu to the Public Arena : Workers' Sociability and Obshchestvennostʹ before 1906 / Yoshifuru Tsuchiya; title: 3. The Notions of Obshchestvennost' during the First World War / Yoshiro Ikeda; title: 4. Nikolai Bukharin and the Rabsel'kor Movement : Sovetskaia Obshchestvennostʹ under the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" / Zenji Asaoka; title: 5. Obshchestvennostʹ at Residence : Community Activities in 1930s Moscow / Yasuhiro Matsui; title: 6. What was Obshchestvennostʹ in the Time of Stalin? : The Case of the Post-war Soviet Medical Profession / Mie Nakachi; title: 7. Obshchestvennostʹ in the Struggle against Crimes : The Case of People's Vigilante Brigades in the Late 1950s and 1960s / Kiyohiro Matsudo; title: 8. Public and Private Matters in Comrades' Courts under Khrushchev / Kazuko Kawamoto; title: 9. Obshchestvennostʹ Across Borders : Soviet Dissidents as a Hub of Transnational Agency / Yasuhiro Matsui.