Obshchestvennost' and Civic Agency in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia

Interface between State and Society

Yasuhiro Matsui

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781349567942, 9781137547224
• eBook ISBN: 9781137547231
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Eastern European History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In modernizing Russia, obshchestvennost', an indigenous Russian word, began functioning as a term to illuminate newly emerging active parts of society and their public identities. This volume approaches various phenomena associated with the term throughout the revolution, examining it in the context of the press, public opinion, and activists.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Russian Critics and Obshchestvennost’, 1840–1890: The Case of Vladimir Stasov
• 2 From Workers’ Milieu to the Public Arena: Workers’ Sociability and Obshchestvennost’ before 1906
• 3 The Notion of Obshchestvennost’ during the First World War
• 4 Nikolai Bukharin and the Rabsel’kor Movement: Sovetskaia Obshchestvennost’ under the ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’
• 5 Obshchestvennost’ in Residence: Community Activities in 1930s Moscow
• 6 What Was Obshchestvennost’ in the Time of Stalin? The Case of the Post-war Soviet Medical Profession
• 7 Obshchestvennost’ in the Struggle against Crimes: The Case of People’s Vigilante Brigades in the Late 1950s and 1960s
• 8 Public and Private Matters in Comrades’ Courts under Khrushchev
• 9 Obshchestvennost’ across Borders: Soviet Dissidents as a Hub of Transnational Agency
• Conclusion
• Name Index
• Subject Index