Democracy burning? : urban fire departments and the limits of civil society in late Imperial Russia, 1850-1914 /

Raab, Nigel A., 1968-

Democracy burning? : urban fire departments and the limits of civil society in late Imperial Russia, 1850-1914 / Nigel A. Raab. - Montréal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource (x, 264 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index.

A Tale of Two Ministries: The Ministry of War, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Reform of the Russian Fire Department, 1855 -- 65 -- The Implementation of Reform: Developing Urban Autonomy in the Public Fire Department, 1865 -- 80 -- Disagreement without Opposition: The City, the State, and the Fight for Control of the Municipal Fire Department in Kazan, 1881 -- 86 -- A Conservative Public Sphere: Volunteer Fire Departments, 1880 -- 1914 -- The Imperial Russian Society of Firefighters, 1893 -- 1914 -- Visualizing Civil Society: The Photographer and the Firefighter. Machine generated contents note: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Democracy Burning? Urban Fire Departments and the Limits of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia, 1850--1914 Nigel A. Raab. "Russia gets drunk in the fall, starves in the winter and the spring, and burns in the summer. These are the seasons of our lives." Russian saying --Book Jacket

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Fire departments--History.--Russia
Services des incendies--Histoire.--Russie
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Fire Science.
HISTORY--General.
Fire departments.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.


Russia--History--1801-1917.
Russia--Social conditions--1801-1917.
Russia--Politics and government--1801-1917.
Russie--Histoire--1801-1917.
Russie--Conditions sociales--1801-1917.
Russie--Politique et gouvernement--1801-1917.
Russia.

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