Russia on the Eve of Modernity: Popular Religion and Traditional Culture under the Last Tsars

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Summary

Pioneering history of the ordinary Russians and their pre-modern, non-Western culture in late Imperial Russia.

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Introduction
The traditional worldview
The old believers: modernization as apocalypse
The sectarians: dualism and secret history
Folk eschatology
The assassination of Alexander II and folk tsarism
Cholera and famine: the demonization of the nobility
The Japanese war: peasant Russia and the wider world
1905: revolution or reaction?
The great war and the crisis of the traditional culture
Epilogue
Bibliography
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