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David L. Ransel
Describes the reception of medical ideas and practices by three generations of Russian and Tatar village women in the 20th century. This book shows how the women mediated the inherited…
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Based on the diary of an 18th-century Russian provincial merchant, this book presents a portrait of Russia’s little-known commercial class. It offers insights into the social history of imperial Russia.
At the height of its operation in the second half of the nineteenth century, the central foundling home in Moscow was receiving 17,000 children each year. The home dispatched most…
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Provides a firsthand portrait of peasant family life. This work describes courting rituals, marriage and sexual practices, childbirth, infanticide, child-rearing practices, the lives of women, food and drink, work habits…
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Points to the historical ties and mutual influences of the people of Russia and Poland. Countering the trend to deny the interactions between Russia and Poland, this collection reminds readers…
Fresh approaches to the history of the Russian Empire.
Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia
An unvarnished account of the harsh living conditions and often brutal relationships within peasant families in Tsarist Russia
Focuses on the formation and elaboration of gender, ethnicity, class, nationalism, and subjectivity.
