All Russia Is Burning!: A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia

by Cathy A. Frierson

Book Overview

Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia, as Cathy Frierson shows in this first comprehensive study. Destroying almost three billion rubles? worth of property in European Russia between 1860 and 1904, accidental and arson fires acted as a brake on Russia's economic development while subjecting peasants to perennial shocks to their physical and emotional condition. The fire question captured the attention...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029598208X
• ISBN13: 9780295982083
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"