Heretz Leonid, Leonid Heretz

Russia on the Eve of Modernity

Popular Religion and Traditional Culture Under the Last Tsars

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Pioneering history of the ordinary Russians and their pre-modern, non-Western culture in late Imperial Russia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780521169561
• ISBN-10: 0521169569
• Artikelnr.: 31386513

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The traditional worldview
2. The old believers: modernization as apocalypse
3. The sectarians: dualism and secret history
4. Folk eschatology
5. The assassination of Alexander II and folk tsarism
6. Cholera and famine: the demonization of the nobility
7. The Japanese war: peasant Russia and the wider world
8. 1905: revolution or reaction?: 9. The great war and the crisis of the traditional culture
Epilogue
Bibliography.