Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia write by Olʹga Petrovna Semenova-Ti︠a︡n-Shanskai︠a︡. This book was released on 1993. Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ò . . . a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution. . . . The translation is superb.Ó ÑSteven Hoch Ò . . . one of the best ethnographic portraits that we have of the Russian village. . . . a highly readable text that is an excellent introduction to the world of the Russian peasantry.Ó ÑSamuel C. Ramer Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia provides a unique firsthand portrait of peasant family life as recorded by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, an ethnographer and painter who spent four years at the turn of the twentieth century observing the life and customs of villagers in a central Russian province. Unusual in its awareness of the rapid changes in the Russian village in the late nineteenth century and in its concentration on the treatment of women and children, SemyonovaÕs ethnography vividly describes courting rituals, marriage and sexual practices, childbirth, infanticide, child-rearing practices, the lives of women, food and drink, work habits, and the household economy. In contrast to a tradition of rosy, romanticized descriptions of peasant communities by Russian upper-class observers, Semyonova gives an unvarnished account of the harsh living conditions and often brutal relationships within peasant families.
Village Life in the Tsarist Russia
Village Life in the Tsarist Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Village Life in the Tsarist Russia write by Olʹga Petrovna Semenova-Ti︠a︡n-Shanskai︠a︡. This book was released on 1993. Village Life in the Tsarist Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia
A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia write by Semen Kanatchikov. This book was released on 1986. A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Semën Kanatchikov, born in a central Russian village in 1879, was one of the thousands of peasants who made the transition from traditional village life to the life of an urban factory worker in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the last years of the nineteenth century. Unlike the others, however, he recorded his personal and political experiences (up to the even of the 1905 Revolution) in an autobiography. First published in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, this memoir gives us the richest and most thoughtful firsthand account we have of life among the urban lower classes in Imperial Russia. We follow this shy but determined peasant youth's painful metamorphosis into a self-educated, skilled patternmaker, his politicization in the factories and workers' circles of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and his close but troubled relations with members of the liberal and radical intelligentsia. Kanatchikov was an exceptionally sensitive and honest observer, and we learn much from his memoirs about the day-to-day life of villagers and urban workers, including such personal matters as religious beliefs, family tensions, and male-female relationships. We also learn about conditions in the Russian prisons, exile life in the Russian Far North, and the Bolshevik-Menshevik split as seen from the workers' point of view.
Imperial Russia
Imperial Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imperial Russia write by Jane Burbank. This book was released on 1998-09-22. Imperial Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "On the basis of the work presented here, one can say that the future of American scholarship on imperial Russia is in good hands." —American Historial Review " . . . innovative and substantive research . . . " —The Russian Review "Anyone wishing to understand the 'state of the field' in Imperial Russian history would do well to start with this collection." —Theodore W. Weeks, H-Net Reviews "The essays are impressive in terms of research conceptualization, and analysis." —Slavic Review Presenting the results of new research and fresh approaches, the historians whose work is highlighted here seek to extend new thinking about the way imperial Russian history is studied and taught. Populating their essays are a varied lot of ordinary Russians of the 18th and 19th centuries, from a luxury-loving merchant and his extended family to reform-minded clerics and soldiers on the frontier. In contrast to much of traditional historical writing on Imperial Russia, which focused heavily on the causes of its demise, the contributors to this volume investigate the people and institutions that kept Imperial Russia functioning over a long period of time.
A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923
A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 write by David G. Rempel. This book was released on 2002-01-01. A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rempel combines his first-hand account of life in Russian Mennonite settlements during the landmark period of 1900-1920, with a rich portrait of six generations of his ancestral family from the foundation of the first colony in 1789.
