Russia on the Eve of Modernity is a pioneering exploration of a
world that has been largely destroyed by revolutionary upheavals
and obscured in historical memory by scholarly focus on elites.
Drawing on traditional religious texts, ethnographic materials and
contemporary accounts, this book brings to light the ideas and
perceptions of the ordinary Russian people of the towns and
countryside who continued to live in a pre-modern, non-Western
culture that showed great resilience to the very end of the Romanov
Empire. Leonid Heretz offers an overview of traditional Russian
understandings of the world and its workings, and shows popular
responses to events from the assassination of Alexander II to the
First World War. This history of ordinary Russians illuminates key
themes ranging from peasant monarchism to apocalyptic responses to
intrusions from the modern world and will appeal to scholars of
Russian history and the history of religion in modern Europe.
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