TY - BOOK AU - Brower,Daniel R. AU - Engel,Barbara Alpern AU - Frank,Stephen P. AU - Jahn,Hubertus F. AU - Konechnyi,Al'bin M. AU - Mironov,Boris N. AU - Neuberger,Joan AU - Rothstein,Robert A. AU - Steinberg,Mark D. AU - Worobec,Christine D. TI - Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia SN - 9780691001067 AV - DK222.C85 1994 U1 - 305.5630947306.4/0947 PY - 1994///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Folklore KW - Russia KW - Peasants KW - Popular culture KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Working class KW - HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; CONTRIBUTORS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. Death Ritual among Russian and Ukrainian Peasants: Linkages between the Living and the Dead --; 2. Women, Men, and the Languages of Peasant Resistance, 1870-1907 --; 3. Peasant Popular Culture and the Origins of Soviet Authoritarianism --; 4. Confronting the Domestic Other: Rural Popular Culture and Its Enemies in Fin-de-Siècle Russia --; 5. Death of the Folk Song? --; 6. Shows for the People: Public Amusement Parks in Nineteenth-Century St. Petersburg --; 7. For Tsar and Fatherland? Russian Popular Culture and the First World War --; 8. The Penny Press and Its Readers --; 9. Worker-Authors and the Cult of the Person --; 10. Culture Besieged: Hooliganism and Futurism --; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. Stephen Frank and Mark Steinberg have gathered here a diverse collection of essays by Western and Russian scholars who question conventional interpretations and recall neglected stories about popular behavior, politics, and culture. What emerges is a new picture of lower-class life, in which traditions and innovations intermingled and social boundaries and identities were battered and reconstructed. The authors vividly convey the vitality as well as the contradictions of social life in old regime Russia, while also confronting problems of interpretation, methodology, and cultural theory. They tell of peasant death rites and religious beliefs, family relationships and brutalities, defiant peasant women, folk songs, urban amusement parks, expressions of popular patriotism, the penny press, workers' notions of the self, street hooliganism, and attempts by educated Russians to transform popular festivities. Together, the authors portray popular culture not as a static, separate world, but as the dynamic means through which lower-class Russians engaged the world around them. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Daniel R. Brower, Barbara Alpern Engel, Hubertus F. Jahn, Al'bin M. Konechnyi, Boris N. Mironov, Joan Neuberger, Robert A. Rothstein, and Christine D. Worobec UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821334 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400821334 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400821334.jpg ER -