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Article: Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia.(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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In recent years scholars of Russian history and society have begun to turn their attention to the cultural mores, behavior, and politics of the lower classes. They have examined how social economic, and political developments during the last half-century of imperial rule impinged upon the traditional world of the peasantry and influenced the character of the newly emerging world of urban dwellers. One result of these endeavors is a fuller, more nuanced picture of not only the quotidian world of Russia's lower classes but also how "lower-class Russians experienced, interpreted, appropriated, and sometimes resisted change, and the complex intertwining of culture, class, ...