Format:
Online-Ressource (345 pages)
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color illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0822977451
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9780822977452
Series Statement:
Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
Content:
Several stark premises have long prevailed in our approach to Russian history. It was commonly assumed that Russia had always labored under a highly centralized and autocratic imperial state. The responsibility for this lamentable state of affairs was ultimately assigned to the profoundly agrarian character of Russian society. The countryside, home to the overwhelming majority of the nation's population, was considered a harsh world of cruel landowners and ignorant peasants, and a strong hand was required for such a crude society. A number of significant conclusions flowed from this under
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; List of Maps, Figures, Tables; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1. Imagining the Russian Provinces; 2. Soil, Forest, River: The Ecology of Provincial Life; 3. Urban Topography; 4. Rhythms: The Local Economy; 5. An Artisanal Case Study: The Southeast; 6. Social Space: Numbers, Images, Biographies; 7. Managing the Province: Local Administration; 8. The Cadastral Map in the Service of the Zemstvo; 9. Church and Religion; 10. Provincial Cultural Nests; 11. The Idea of Province; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822961717
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822961710
Additional Edition:
Print version Portrait of a Russian province : economy, society, and civilization in nineteenth-century Nizhnii Novgorod
Language:
English
URL:
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