TY - GEN T1 - The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900 A1 - Brower, Daniel R. LA - English PP - Berkeley, Calif. PB - University of California Press YR - 1990 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm44963141 AB - The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernityprovides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on urbanization and cultural representations of the city, Brower constructs a synthetic view of the remaking of urban Russia. He argues that the reformed municipalities succeeded in creating an embryonic civil society among the urban elite but failed to fashion a unified, orderly city. By the end of the century, the cities confronted social disorder of a magnitude that resembled latent civil war. Drawing on a wide range of archival and published sources, including census materials and reports from municipal leaders and tsarist officials, Brower offers a new approach to the social history of Russia. The author emphasizes the impact of the massive influx of migrants on the country's urban centers, whose presence dominated the social landscape of the city. He outlines the array of practices by which the migrant laborers adapted to urban living and stresses the cultural barriers that isolated them from the well-to-do urban population. Brower suggests that future scholarship should pay particular attention to the duality between the sweeping visions of social progress of the elite and the unique practices of the urban workforce. This contradiction, he argues, offers a key explanation for the social instability of imperial Russia in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. OP - 253 CN - HT145.S58 B76 1990eb SN - 0585250146 SN - 9780585250144 SN - 9780520067646 SN - 0520067649 SN - 9780520337985 SN - 0520337980 KW - Cities and towns : Russia : History : 19th century. KW - Russia : Social conditions : 1801-1917. KW - Villes : Russie : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Russie : Conditions sociales : 1801-1917. KW - HISTORY : Europe : Russia & the Former Soviet Union. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Sociology : Urban. KW - Cities and towns KW - Social conditions KW - Russia KW - 1800-1917 KW - History ER -