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Imperial Russia on the Edge : A Microhistory of Collapse Smith, Alison K. 2017-10-05
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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/ |
AggregatedSourceRepository | DSpace |
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