Peasant icons: representations of rural people in late nineteenth century Russia

✍ Scribed by Cathy A. Frierson

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 272
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In the thirty years after Russian peasants were emancipated in 1861, they became a major focus of Russian intellectual life. This text is the first to examine the revealing images of the peasant created by Russian writers, scholars, journalists, and government officials during that period, as the identity and fate of the Russian peasant became an integral component in the future of Russia envisioned by liberal reformers and conservatives alike. Frierson examines the persisting stereotypes created by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and other intellectuals seeking to understand village life, from the likable narod, the simple folk, to the exploitative kulak, the village strongman.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Introduction (page 3)
1. The 1860s: Setting the Stage (page 21)
2. Narod: Passive, Benighted, and Simple (page 32)
3. The Peasant as Judge (page 54)
4. The Peasant as Rational Man of the Land (page 76)
5. The Communal Peasant (page 101)
6. The Gray Peasant: Unadorned and Besieged (page 116)
7. Kulak: The Village Strongman (page 139)
8. Baba: The Peasant Woman-Virago, Eve, or Victim? (page 161)
9. Conclusion (page 181)
Notes (page 197)
Selected Bibliography (page 227)
Index (page 239)

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