TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heretz,Leonid
TI  - Russia on the eve of modernity: popular religion and traditional culture under the last tsars 
T2  - New studies in European history
SN  - 9780511388798
AV  - DK247 .H44 2008eb
U1  - 947/.07 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Russia
KW  - Culture populaire
KW  - Russie
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - 1801-1917
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index; Introduction -- The traditional worldview -- The old believers : modernization as apocalypse -- The sectarians : dualism and secret history -- Folk eschatology -- The assassination of Alexander II (1881) and folk tsarism -- The year of famine and cholera (1891-1892) : the demonization of the nobility -- The Japanese war : peasant Russia and the wider world -- 1905 : revolution or reaction? -- The Great War and the crisis of the traditional culture
N2  - 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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