The Language Of Russian Peasants In The Twentieth Century

Author : Alexander D. Nakhimovsky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498575041

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The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century by Alexander D. Nakhimovsky Pdf

The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through letters and stories that trace their tragic history. In 1900, there were 100,000,000 peasants in Russia, but by mid-century their language was no longer passed from parents to children, resulting in no speakers of the dialect left today. In this study, Alexander D. Nakhimovsky argues that for all the variability of local dialects there was an underlying unity in them, which derived from their old shared traditions and oral nature. Their unity is best manifested in word formation, syntax, phraseology, and discourse. Different social groups followed somewhat different paths through the maze of Soviet history, and peasants' path was one of the most painful. The chronological organization of the book and the analysis of powerful, concise, and simple but expressive language of peasant letters and stories culminate into an oral history of their tragic Soviet experience.

Author : Boris B. Gorshkov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474254830

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Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin by Boris B. Gorshkov Pdf

The peasantry accounted for the large majority of the Russian population during the Imperialist and Stalinist periods – it is, for the most part, how people lived. Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin provides a comprehensive, realistic examination of peasant life in Russia during both these eras and the legacy this left in the post-Soviet era. The book paints a full picture of peasant involvement in commerce and local political life and, through Boris Gorshkov's original ecology paradigm for understanding peasant life, offers new perspectives on the Russian peasantry under serfdom and the emancipation. Incorporating recent scholarship, including Russian and non-Russian texts, along with classic studies, Gorshkov explores the complex interrelationships between the physical environment, peasant economic and social practices, culture, state policies and lord-peasant relations. He goes on to analyze peasant economic activities, including agriculture and livestock, social activities and the functioning of peasant social and political institutions within the context of these interrelationships. Further reading lists, study questions, tables, maps, primary source extracts and images are also included to support and enhance the text wherever possible. Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin is the crucial survey of a key topic in modern Russian history for students and scholars alike.

Author : Esther Kingston-Mann,Timothy Mixter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400861248

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Peasant Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia, 1800-1921 by Esther Kingston-Mann,Timothy Mixter Pdf

This collection of original essays provides a rare in-depth look at peasant life in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European Russia. It is the first English-language text to deal extensively with peasant women and patriarchy; the role of magic, healing, and medicine in village life; communal economic innovation; rural poverty and labor migration from the village perspective; the agricultural hiring market as workers' turf; and the regional components of the late nineteenth-century agrarian crisis. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Bernard Comrie,Gerald Stone,Maria Polinsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015037791855

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The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century by Bernard Comrie,Gerald Stone,Maria Polinsky Pdf

Bernard Comrie and Gerald Stone's The Russian Language Since the Revolution (OUP, 1978) provided a comprehensive account of the way Russian changed in the period between 1917 and the 1970s. In this new volume the authors, joined by Maria Polinsky, extend the time frame back to 1900 and forward to glasnost in the mid-1980s. They first consider changes in the pronunciation, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of the language and then examine the effects of social change on the language in chapters on the changing status of women, modes of address, speech etiquette, and orthography. They show that changes in all these areas have been substantial, and explore the extent to which the standard language, as portrayed in dictionaries and grammars, coincides with the actual usage - both spoken and written - of educated Russians. The book will be of interest not only to students of Russian but more generally to sociolinguists and those with an interest in language change.

Author : Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521812276

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The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689 by Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.

Author : Wayne S. Vucinich,John Shelton Curtiss
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : 0804706387

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The Peasant in Nineteenth-Century Russia by Wayne S. Vucinich,John Shelton Curtiss Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Cathy A. Frierson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Peasantry
ISBN : 0195072944

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Peasant Icons by Cathy A. Frierson Pdf

In the thirty years after Russian peasants were emancipated in 1861, they became a major focus of Russian intellectual life. This text is the first to examine the revealing images of the peasant created by Russian writers, scholars, journalists, and government officials during that period, as the identity and fate of the Russian peasant became an integral component in the future of Russia envisioned by liberal reformers and conservatives alike. Frierson examines the persisting stereotypes created by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and other intellectuals seeking to understand village life, from the likable narod, the simple folk, to the exploitative kulak, the village strongman.

Author : Eric R. Wolf
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0806131969

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Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century by Eric R. Wolf Pdf

"Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century provides a good short course in the major popular revolutions of our century--in Russia, Mexico, China, Algeria, Cuba, and Viet Nam--not from the perspective of governments or parties or leaders, but from the perspective of the peasant peoples whose lives and ways of living were destroyed by the depredations of the imperial powers, including American imperial power."-New York Times Book Review "Eric Wolf's study of the six great peasant-based revolutions of the century demonstrates a mastery of his field and the methods required to negotiate it that evokes respect and admiration. In six crisp essays, and a brilliant conclusion, he extends our understanding of the nature of peasant reactions to social change appreciably by his skill in isolating and analyzing those factors, which, by a magnification of the anthropologist's techniques, can be shown to be crucial in linking local grievances and protest to larger movements of political transformation."--American Political Science Review "An intellectual tour de force."--Comparative Politics

Author : Erwin Oberländer
Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010387549

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Russia Enters the Twentieth Century, 1894-1917 by Erwin Oberländer Pdf

Author : Olʹga Petrovna Semenova-Ti︠a︡n-Shanskai︠a︡
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Russia
ISBN : 0253347971

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Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia by Olʹga Petrovna Semenova-Ti︠a︡n-Shanskai︠a︡ Pdf

Ò . . . a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution. . . . The translation is superb.Ó ÑSteven Hoch Ò . . . one of the best ethnographic portraits that we have of the Russian village. . . . a highly readable text that is an excellent introduction to the world of the Russian peasantry.Ó ÑSamuel C. Ramer Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia provides a unique firsthand portrait of peasant family life as recorded by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, an ethnographer and painter who spent four years at the turn of the twentieth century observing the life and customs of villagers in a central Russian province. Unusual in its awareness of the rapid changes in the Russian village in the late nineteenth century and in its concentration on the treatment of women and children, SemyonovaÕs ethnography vividly describes courting rituals, marriage and sexual practices, childbirth, infanticide, child-rearing practices, the lives of women, food and drink, work habits, and the household economy. In contrast to a tradition of rosy, romanticized descriptions of peasant communities by Russian upper-class observers, Semyonova gives an unvarnished account of the harsh living conditions and often brutal relationships within peasant families.

Author : Jerome Blum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1971-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0691007640

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Lord and Peasant in Russia by Jerome Blum Pdf

Study of the relationship between lord and peasant from the 9th to the 19th centuries, told against a background of Russian political and economic evolution.

Author : Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521811446

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The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 3, The Twentieth Century by Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

This is a definitive new history of Russia from early Rus' to the successor states that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Volume I encompasses developments before the reign of Peter I; volume II covers the 'imperial era', from Peter's time to the fall of the monarchy in March 1917; and volume III continues the story through to the end of the twentieth century. At the core of all three volumes are the Russians, the lands which they have inhabited and the polities that ruled them, while other peoples and territories have also been given generous coverage for the periods when they came under Riurikid, Romanov and Soviet rule. The distinct voices of individual contributors provide a multitude of perspectives on Russia's diverse and controversial millennial history. This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early ('Kievan') Rus' to the start of Peter the Great's reign in 1689. It surveys the development of Russia through the Mongol invasions to the expansion of the Muscovite state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and deals with political, social, economic and cultural issues under the Riurikid and early Romanov rulers. The volume is organised on a primarily chronological basis, but a number of general themes are also addressed, including the bases of political legitimacy; law and society; the interactions of Russians and non-Russians; and the relationship of the state with the Orthodox Church. The international team of authors incorporates the latest Russian and Western scholarship and offers an authoritative new account of the formative 'pre-Petrine' period of Russian history, before the process of Europeanisation had made a significant impact on society and culture. Book jacket.

Author : Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9637326154

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A Life Under Russian Serfdom by Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii Pdf

"Gorshkov's introduction provides some basic knowledge about Russian serfdom and draws upon the most recent scholarship. Notes provide references and general information about events, places and people mentioned in the memoirs."--Jacket.

Author : Irina Marin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319760698

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Peasant Violence and Antisemitism in Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe by Irina Marin Pdf

This book is a transnational study of rural and anti-Semitic violence around the triple frontier between Austria-Hungary, Romania and Tsarist Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. It focuses on the devastating Romanian peasant uprising in 1907 and traces the reverberations of the crisis across the triple frontier, analysing the fears, spectres and knee-jerk reactions it triggered in the borderlands of Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia. The uprising came close on the heels of the 1905-1907 social turmoil in Tsarist Russia, and brought into play the major issues that characterized social and political life in the region at the time: rural poverty, the Jewish Question, state modernization, and social upheavals. The book comparatively explores the causes and mechanisms of violence propagation, the function of rumour in the spread of the uprising, land reforms and their legal underpinnings, the policing capabilities of the borderlands around the triple frontier, as well as newspaper coverage and diplomatic reactions.

Author : Sergei I. Zhuk
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801879159

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Russia's Lost Reformation by Sergei I. Zhuk Pdf

Radical Protestant Christianity became widespread in rural parts of southern Russia and Ukraine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917, studies the origins and evolution of the theology and practices of these radicals and their contribution to an alternative culture in the region. Arising from a confluence of immigrant Anabaptists from central Europe and native Russian religious dissident movements, the new sects shared characteristics with both their antecedents in Europe and their contemporaries in the Shaker and Quaker movements on the American frontier. The radicals' lives showed energy and initiative reminiscent of Max Weber's famous paradigm in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. And women participated in congregations no less than men and often led them. The radicals criticized the existing social and political order, created their own educational system, and in some cases engaged in radical politics. Their contributions, argues Zhuk, help explain the receptiveness of peasants in this region to the revolutions of 1905 and 1917.