Social Identities in Revolutionary Russia

Madhavan K. Palat

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN:
  9780333929476
• eBook ISBN:
  9781403919687
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Eastern European History
• Index: History

This volume explores the crisis of identity that faced Russia during and after the Revolution. The essays discuss how a re-evaluation of national identity challenged traditional institutions and ideas, having a direct bearing upon personal identity. Topics include the Stolypin agrarian reform, the fracturing of the Intelligentsia and Church reform. Also included in this volume is Khlebinkov's manifesto An Indo-Russian Union published here in Russian with a new English translation.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary
• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 The Russian Idea: Metaphysics, Ideology and History
• 2 Agrarian Unrest and the Shaping of a National Identity in Ukraine at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• 3 Identity and Politics in Provincial Russia: Tver, 1889–1905
• 4 Historical Views of the Russian Peasantry: National Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century
• 5 Regulating Conflict through the Petition
• 6 The Stolypin Land Reform as ‘Administrative Utopia’: Images of Peasantry in Nineteenth-Century Russia
• 7 Broken Identities: The Intelligentsia in Revolutionary Russia
• 8 ‘Democracy’ as Identification: Towards the Study of Political Consciousness during the February Revolution
• 9 All Power to the Parish? The Problems and Politics of Church Reform in Late Imperial Russia
• 10 The Poetics of Eurasia: Velimir Khlebnikov between Empire and Revolution
• Index