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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Late Imperial Russia"”.
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Industrialisation, Politics, and Banking Instability in Late Imperial Russia
… politics, banking and social instability in late Imperial Russia. The early-to-mid-1890s were characterised by rapid industrial growth, which was driven by protectionist policies and the state procurement of industrial products. The period 1899-1902 saw a severe financial and industrial …
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Performing death: Celebrity women’s funerals and the emotional public sphere in late imperial Russia
Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Crisis and decline: The radical right movement in the Russian Empire, 1900-1914
… examines the radical right movement in the Russian Empire between 1900 and 1914. Eschewing an exclusively ‘high political’ focus, it considers the right-wing interaction with Russian society in what rightist activists widely considered to be an era of crisis. It examines the construction of …
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Modernizing Russia in the Aeronautical Age: Technology, Legitimacy, and the Structures of Air-Mindedness, 1909-1939
… to identifying the essential characteristics of Imperial and Soviet aeronautical culture, the dissertation offers new insight into the nature and direction of Russian society, culture, and politics in the years surrounding 1917. Through documentation of the interactive efforts of Imperial state …
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On the Land, Territory, and Crisis Triad: Enclosure and Capitalist Appropriation of the Russian Land Commune
… the context of economic and agrarian crises in late imperial Russia. Using original records of Russian land deals that I obtained in the federal and provincial archives, I explore how the coalitions of landed nobility, land surveyors, landless serfs, and peasant proprietors used land enclosure …
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What is Christian Anarchist Art? Leo Tolstoy and the Literature of The Intermediary, 1885-1890
… production, and the socioeconomic constraints of late Imperial Russia.
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Decentering Russia: Art and Empire, 1900-1973
… art historical and geographical peripheries in late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, from the last decades of tsarist rule through the Soviet Union’s ascent as a leader of global decolonializing movements (1900-1973). Previous scholarship on cultural practices in the Soviet Union’s …
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Nietzsche's orphans: music and the search for unity in revolutionary Russia, 1905-1921
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia was in the throes of immense social, political and cultural upheaval. The effects of rapid industrialization, rising capitalism and urbanization, as well as the trauma wrought by revolution and war, reverberated through all levels of society and …
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"The ""end of the earth"": Sakhalin Island in the Russian imperial imagination, 1849-1906"
This dissertation examines Russian discourses concerning colonization of Sakhalin Island from the 1850s, when explorers claimed the island as innately Russian land, to 1906, when Russia withdrew colonists after surrendering southern Sakhalin to Japan. By examining not only the ever-changing state …
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A slap in the face of public taste: the Russian Futurists' aesthetics of revolution
… thesis examines the historical context in which Russian Futurism formed in 1910 in order to comprehend better this significant movement’s motivations, ideologies, aesthetics, and effects on subsequent literature, art, and politics, particularly those of Russia. It identifies the primary problems …