Modernism and public reform in late imperial Russia : rural professionals and self-organization, 1905-30 /
"This book is a comprehensive reconstruction of the successful attempt by rural professionals in late imperial Russia to engage peasants in a common public sphere. Covers a range of aspects, from personal income and the dynamics of the job market to ideological conflicts and psychological trans...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Structures of mobilization
- Becoming "progressive" : structural settings and mental mapping of reformism
- Bringing up a new generation of intelligentsia
- Transfer of the Italian technology of modernization and birth of the Russian "public agronomy" project
- pt. 2. Dynamics of modernization
- The ambivalent role of the state : a conservative patron and a progressive rival
- The economic foundations of social mobilization
- From knowledge to influence : building a bridge to the new peasant
- At the crossroads : coping with modernization as routine
- pt. 3. Patterns of "nationalization"
- Nation as motherland
- Nation as the people
- Revolutionary nation
- The dissolution of the "imagined community" : nationalization as expropriation
- Postscript