Plebeian Modernity: Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 1906-1916

by Ilya Gerasimov and Ilya V. Gerasimov

Covering the interrevolutionary decade of 1906-16 in imperial Russia, the book tells the story of the "silent majority" of urban inhabitants in four major cities: Vilna (today Vilnius, Lithuania), Odessa (in today's Ukraine), Kazan, and Nizhny Novgorod. Representatives of underprivileged social groups made up some ninety percent of city populations during this period, yet produced hardly one percent of the surviving written sources. In fact, these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580469051
• ISBN13: 9781580469050
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"