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Plebeian Modernity - Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 1906-1916 (Hardcover)
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Plebeian Modernity - Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 1906-1916 (Hardcover)
Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe
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Deciphers typical social practices as a hidden language of
communication in urban plebeian society Covering the
interrevolutionary decade of 1906-16 in imperial Russia, this book
tells the story of the "silent majority" of urban inhabitants in
four major cities: Vilna (today Vilnius, Lithuania), Odessa (in
today's Ukraine), Kazan, and Nizhny Novgorod. Representatives of
underprivileged social groups made up some ninety percent of city
populations during this period, yet produced hardly one percent of
the surviving written sources. These people, many ofthem migrants
from the countryside, usually did not read newspapers, rarely
authored written documents, and had little exposure to public
discourse. They often did not even speak a common language. Our
understanding of this population has until recently been based
largely on interpretations by educated observers (journalists,
legal experts, scholars), whose testimonies reflected the cultural
stereotypes of the time. This book bypasses such mediation, arguing
that we can come to know the authentic voices of urban commoners by
reading their social practices as a nonverbal language. Toward that
end, author Ilya Gerasimov closely examines newspaper criminal
chronicles, policereports, and anonymous extortion letters,
reconstructing typical social practices among this segment of
Russian society. The resulting picture represents the distinctive
phenomenon of a "plebeian modernity," one that helped shapethe
outlook of early Soviet society. Ilya Gerasimov is a founding
editor of Ab Imperio. He holds a PhD in Russian history from
Rutgers University.
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