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Imperial Russia on the Edge : A Microhistory of Collapse Smith, Alison K. Oct 5, 2017

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Title Imperial Russia on the Edge : A Microhistory of Collapse
Creator Smith, Alison K.
Contributor University of British Columbia. Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies
Date Issued 2017-10-05
Description For historians of Tsarist Russia, it is difficult to escape a narrative trap of writing toward a defined end point: the revolutions of 1917. Microhistory offers an alternative way of writing about the last decades of the Russian Empire and also makes clear the ways that a narrative of collapse is hard to escape. Gatchina, a palace town that had become a bedroom community for St. Petersburg, was in many ways a microcosm of the larger empire. Its last decade and a half of imperial rule could be written as one with no hint of a coming revolution, but instead as one of suburbanization, of the growth of a middle class, of, for lack of a better world, normalcy. Knowing the end of the story in advance, however, means that even that normalcy seems a mirage, a veneer covering something rotten, and anything outside it—particularly a rise in suicides—seems to hint at revolutionary forces lurking, waiting to destroy the tsarist state from within.
Subject Imperial Russia
history
microhistory
Geographic Location Gatchina (Russia)
Type Moving Image
Language eng
Series Ziegler lecture series
Date Available 2017-10-24
Provider Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI 10.14288/1.0357262
URI http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63423
Affiliation Non UBC
Peer Review Status Unreviewed
Scholarly Level Faculty
Rights URI http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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