This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the social and
cultural life of late imperial Russia describes the struggle of new
elites to take up a "middle position" in society--between tsar and
people. During this period autonomous social and cultural
institutions, pluralistic political life, and a dynamic economy all
seemed to be emerging: Russia was experiencing a sense of social
possibility akin to that which Gorbachev wishes to reanimate in the
Soviet Union. But then, as now, diversity had as its price the
potential for political disorder and social dissolution. Analyzing
the attempt of educated Russians to forge new identities, this book
reveals the social, cultural, and regional fragmentation of the
times.
The contributors are Harley Balzer, John E. Bowlt, Joseph
Bradley, William C. Brumfield, Edith W. Clowes, James M. Curtis,
Ben Eklof, Gregory L. Freeze, Abbott Gleason, Samuel D. Kassow,
Mary Louise Loe, Louise McReynolds, Sidney Monas, John O. Norman,
Daniel T. Orlovsky, Thomas C. Owen, Alfred Rieber, Bernice G.
Rosenthal, Christine Ruane, Charles E. Timberlake, William Wagner,
and James L. West. Samuel D. Kassow has written a conclusion to the
volume.
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