The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a
dynamic and troubled world. Stephen Frank and Mark Steinberg have
gathered here a diverse collection of essays by Western and Russian
scholars who question conventional interpretations and recall
neglected stories about popular behavior, politics, and culture.
What emerges is a new picture of lower-class life, in which
traditions and innovations intermingled and social boundaries and
identities were battered and reconstructed.
The authors vividly convey the vitality as well as the
contradictions of social life in old regime Russia, while also
confronting problems of interpretation, methodology, and cultural
theory. They tell of peasant death rites and religious beliefs,
family relationships and brutalities, defiant peasant women, folk
songs, urban amusement parks, expressions of popular patriotism,
the penny press, workers' notions of the self, street hooliganism,
and attempts by educated Russians to transform popular festivities.
Together, the authors portray popular culture not as a static,
separate world, but as the dynamic means through which lower-class
Russians engaged the world around them.
In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are
Daniel R. Brower, Barbara Alpern Engel, Hubertus F. Jahn, Al'bin M.
Konechnyi, Boris N. Mironov, Joan Neuberger, Robert A. Rothstein,
and Christine D. Worobec.
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