Plebeian modernity : social practices, illegality, and the urban poor in Russia, 1906-1916
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書誌事項
Plebeian modernity : social practices, illegality, and the urban poor in Russia, 1906-1916
(Rochester studies in Central Europe)
University of Rochester Press, 2018
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  東京
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  愛知
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  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
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  フランス
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Deciphers typical social practices as a hidden language of communication in urban plebeian society
Covering the interrevolutionary decade of 1906-16 in imperial Russia, this book tells the story of the "silent majority" of urban inhabitants in four major cities: Vilna (today Vilnius, Lithuania), Odessa (in today's Ukraine), Kazan, and Nizhny Novgorod. Representatives of underprivileged social groups made up some ninety percent of city populations during this period, yet produced hardly one percent of the surviving written sources. These people, many ofthem migrants from the countryside, usually did not read newspapers, rarely authored written documents, and had little exposure to public discourse. They often did not even speak a common language.
Our understanding of this population has until recently been based largely on interpretations by educated observers (journalists, legal experts, scholars), whose testimonies reflected the cultural stereotypes of the time. This book bypasses such mediation, arguing that we can come to know the authentic voices of urban commoners by reading their social practices as a nonverbal language. Toward that end, author Ilya Gerasimov closely examines newspaper criminal chronicles, policereports, and anonymous extortion letters, reconstructing typical social practices among this segment of Russian society. The resulting picture represents the distinctive phenomenon of a "plebeian modernity," one that helped shapethe outlook of early Soviet society.
Ilya Gerasimov is a founding editor of Ab Imperio. He holds a PhD in Russian history from Rutgers University.
目次
- Introduction: The Subalterns Speak Out
- Gerasim and the Infamous Writing Degree Zero, and Beyond: Reading Social Practices between the Lines The Middle Volga City as the Middle Ground: Urban Plebeian Society The Patriarchal Metropolis: Trespassing Social Barriers in Late Imperial Vilna "We Only Kill Each Other": The Anthropology of Deadly Violence and Contested Intergroup Boundaries The Transformative Social Experience of Illegality Epilogue: Gerasim in Power
- A Plebeian Modernity Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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