Reginald E. Zelnik

The City in Late Imperial Russia

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Michael F. Hamm 2. Moscow From Big Villiage to Metropolis Joseph Bradley 3. Between Old and New St. Petersburg in the Late Imperial Era James H. Bater 4. Continuity and Change in Late Imperial Kiev Michael F. Hamm 5. Warsaw Poles and Jews in a Conquered City Stephen D. Corrsin 6. Riga Growth, Conflict, and the Limitations of Good Government, 1850-1914 Anders Henriksson 7. Odessa and the Problem of Urban Modernization Frederick W. Skinner 8. Tiflis Crucible of Ethnic Politics, 1860-1905 Ronald Grigor Suny 9. Baku Transformation of a Muslim Town Audrey Altstadt-Mirhadi 10. Urban Revolution in the Late Russian Empire Daniel R. Brower Bibliography List of Contributors Index Illustrations between pp. 151 and 176

Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections

Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections Edited by Reginald E. Zelnik Description: The collapse of the Soviet Union opened previously unimagined possibilities for insight into Russian social, intellectual, and political history. This volume, a collaboration of American, Russian, and West European scholars, illuminates the creation and complex dynamics of the Russian industrial working class from its peasant origins in the mid-nineteenth century to the collapse of the imperial system in 1917. The authors focus on the shifting attitudes, cultural norms, self-representations, and increasing self-consciousness of workers as they interacted with the new social movements, student groups, the Church, and most dramatically, the political (mainly radical and liberal) intelligentsia. But the authors also examine the obverse: the contending representations of workers by the intelligentsia as they interacted with each other ever more intensely during this turbulent period leading up to the Russian Revolution. The result is a fascinating and detailed account of social and cultural transformation in a key period of Russian — and world — history.