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Plebeian Modernity: Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia 1906-1916 (Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe) free ebook download

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Author(s):	Ilya Gerasimov

Date:	2018-01-25	Format:	PDF	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1580469051
Pages:	302	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:	9781580469050
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Covering the interrevolutionary decade of 1906-16 in imperial Russia, the 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. In fact, these people, many of them migrants from the countryside, existed in a nondiscursive environment: they 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 the experiences 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, police reports, 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 shape the outlook of early Soviet societyCovering the interrevolutionary decade of 1906-16 in imperial Russia, the 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. In fact, these people, many of them migrants from the countryside, existed in a nondiscursive environment: they 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 the experiences of this population has until recently beenbased 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, police reports, 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 shape the outlook of early Soviet society.

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