Russia on the Eve of Modernity: Popular Religion and Traditional Culture Under the Last Tsars

by Leonid Heretz

Book Overview

Russia on the Eve of Modernity is a pioneering exploration of a world that has been largely destroyed by revolutionary upheavals and obscured in historical memory by scholarly focus on elites. Drawing on traditional religious texts, ethnographic materials and contemporary accounts, this book brings to light the ideas and perceptions of the ordinary Russian people of the towns and countryside who continued to live in a pre-modern, non-Western culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521169569
• ISBN13: 9780521169561
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"