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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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