Peasant Icons: Representations of Rural People in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia

by Cathy A. Frierson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195072944
• ISBN13: 9780195072945
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"