Modernism and public reform in late imperial Russia: rural professionals and self-organization, 1905-30
Gerasimov, Ilya V.
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. INDICE: Introduction - PART I: STRUCTURES OF MOBILIZATION - Becoming 'Progressive': Structural Settings and Mental Mapping of Reformism - Bringing Up a New Generation of Intelligentsia - Transfer of the Italian Technology of Modernization and Birth of the Russian 'Public Agronomy' Project - PART II: DYNAMICS OF MODERNIZATION - The Ambivalent Role of the State: A Conservative Patron and a 'Progressive' Rival - The Economic Foundations of Social Mobilization - From Knowledge to Influence: Building a Bridge to the New Peasant - At the Crossroads: Coping with Modernization as Routine - PART III: PATTERNS OF 'NATIONALIZATION' - Nation as Motherland - Nation as the People - Revolutionary Nation - The Dissolution of the 'Imagined Community': Nationalization as Expropriation - Postscript
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22947-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 340
- Fecha Publicación: 12/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés