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Evgenij AkelÂŽev, Povsednevnaja ĆŸiznÂŽ vorovskogo mira Moskvy vo vremena VanÂŽki Kaina
The popular Molodaia Gvardia âLiving Historyâ book series on everyday life, now approaching 100Â titles, is a baggy collection of histories and current events. Some of its history books are not the new social or cultural studies suggested by the series title but merely standard accounts with the fashionable label âeveryday lifeâ tacked on. Others are rehashes of gossipy court or high society studies. But a few are genuinely original, powerful works of historical excavation. A recent addition t..
Implicit Questions in Michael Confinoâs Essay
AbstractThe essay commends Michael Confinoâs challenging criticisms over many years of the conceptualizations commonly used by historians of Russia. David L. Ransel agrees with the criticisms of the soslovie paradigm advanced by Confino in his recent essay. Ransel suggests that by adapting the soslovie to class conceptualization of Russiaâs modernization, historians may have missed seeing a more fruitful and instructive conceptualization, one usually associated with Ibero-Latin regimes rather than Russia, namely, the development of Russia from a patrimonial state to a corporate state and society. Ransel also points out the obstacles presented by the soslovie paradigm for understanding of the micro-dynamics of Russian history. The soslovie paradigm tends to blind scholars to a feature of Russian life that Confino himself had commented on many years ago: Russians of all social statuses lived in close proximity and interacted daily. Ransel gives examples from his own work and the work of others and calls for more study of the micro-dynamics of Russian history.RĂ©sumĂ©Le prĂ©sent essai appuie les critiques stimulantes formulĂ©es par Michael Confino pendant de nombreuses annĂ©es sur les conceptualisations communĂ©ment utilisĂ©es par les historiens de la Russie. Lâauteur admet les critiques de la notion de soslovie avancĂ©es par Confino dans son dernier article (CMR, 49 (4), 2008). Il laisse entendre quâen adoptant le modĂšle selon lequel la modernisation de la Russie se serait opĂ©rĂ©e par le passage dâune sociĂ©tĂ© de soslovija Ă une sociĂ©tĂ© de classes, les historiens ont pu passer Ă cĂŽtĂ© dâune autre conceptualisation plus fructueuse et Ă©difiante, associĂ©e dâordinaire aux rĂ©gimes latino-amĂ©ricains et ibĂ©riens plutĂŽt quâĂ la Russie, Ă savoir, le dĂ©veloppement de la Russie par le passage dâun Ătat patrimonial Ă un Ătat et une sociĂ©tĂ© corporatistes. Lâauteur pointe Ă©galement les obstacles que soulĂšve la notion de soslovie dans la comprĂ©hension de la microdynamique de lâhistoire russe. La notion de soslovie tend Ă masquer un aspect de la vie russe que Confino lui-mĂȘme avait commentĂ© il y a longtemps dĂ©jĂ Â : les Russes de tous statuts sociaux vivaient en proximitĂ© Ă©troite et Ă©taient en contact quotidiennement. Lâauteur propose des exemples extraits de diffĂ©rents travaux, dont les siens, et invite Ă utiliser davantage lâapproche microdynamique de lâhistoire russe
Breaking the Ties That Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia. By Barbara Alpern Engel. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. xi, 282 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. $39.95, hard bound.
Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate, and Local Loyalties in Provincial Russia. By Mary W. Cavender. Newark: University of Delaware Press/Associated University Presses, 2007. 251 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Map. $55.00, hard bound.
Etnicheskii Sostav I Etnosotsial'naia Struktura Naseleniia Peterburga, Vtoraia Polovina xix-Nachalo xx Veka: Statisticheskii Analiz. By Natalia V. Iukhneva. Leningrad: Nauka, 1984. 223 pp. Figures. Maps. Photographs. Tables. 1.80 rubles, cloth.
Women in Russia and the Soviet Union: An Annotated Bibliography. By Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild. New York: G.K. Hall, 1993. xiv, 203 pp. Index. Hard bound.
Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy [Book Review]
Book review of: Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy by Sergei Antonov. 400 pages, 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches, 6 halftones, 14 tables. Harvard Historical Studies 187, ISBN 9780674971486
Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy [Book Review]
Book review of: Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy by Sergei Antonov. 400 pages, 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches, 6 halftones, 14 tables. Harvard Historical Studies 187, ISBN 9780674971486