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FIN DE SIÈCLE RUSSIA, 1891–1917
Hubertus Jahn
This special subject examines the late imperial period of Russian history from the
perspective of the fin de siècle. Its goal is twofold: to rediscover the richness and
complexity of the era; and to rethink the meaning of the revolutions of 1917. In the
years around 1900, questions of both modernity and decay, civilisation and cultural
standards were at the heart of intellectual discussions and public debates. They
occupied people’s minds and spurred artistic creativity at a time when the country as a
whole experienced major economic and social changes. Topics for investigation will
thus include the rise of mass movements and the revolution of 1905, but also
consumer culture and the “sexual question,” as it was called at the time. Special
attention will be paid to the world of the Russian village, the life of factory workers,
the decline of the nobility, the pitfalls of the modern urban landscape, popular utopian
fantasies, and the momentous changes in literature and the arts. The documentary
material for this course will be in English. In addition to more conventional sources
(memoirs, decrees, petitions, strike resolutions, programmes of political parties,
articles and tracts), they will include literature and a broad variety of audio-visual
materials (popular song, film, architecture, posters, paintings, and other works of art),
which are available as tape or CD recordings, on video cassettes, and as reproductions
in books.
Sources:
Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, Village Life in Tsarist Russia, ed. David
Ransel (Bloomington, 1993) [169pp.]
Reginald E. Zelnik (ed.), A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia. The
Autobiography of Semën Ivanovich Kanatchikov (Stanford, 1986), pp. 1–135
[135pp.]
E. A. Oliunina ‘The Tailoring Trade in Moscow and the Villages of Moscow and
Riazan Provinces: Material on the History of the Domestic Industry in
Russia’ in Victoria E. Bonnell (ed.), The Russian Worker. Life and Labor
under the Tsarist Regime (Berkeley, 1983), pp. 154–183 [30pp.]
Anton Chekhov, ‘The Cherry Orchard’ in Chekhov Plays (Penguin Classics,
several editions) [68pp.]
Elisaveta Lvova, ‘From the Distant Past: Fragments from Childhood Memories’
in Toby W. Clyman and Judith Vowles (eds.), Russia Through Women’s
Eyes. Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia (New Haven and London, 1996),
pp. 281–310 [29pp.]
Ekaterina Slanskaia, ‘House Calls: A Day in the Practice of a Duma Woman
Doctor in St. Petersburg’ in Clyman and Vowles (eds.), Russia Through
Women’s Eyes, pp. 186–216 [30pp.]
Vesevolod Krestovskii, ‘The Slums of Petersburg: A Book about the Well-Fed
and the Hungry’ and the Moscow Sheet, ‘Moscow Court Reporting’ in James
von Geldern and Louise McReynolds (eds.), Entertaining Tsarist Russia
(Bloomington, 1998), pp. 121–128, 212–217 [14pp.]
Andrey Biely [Andrei Belyi], St. Petersburg, trans. John Cournos (New York,
1959), prologue and ch. 1 [40pp.]
‘Pobedonostsev’s Criticism of Modern Society’ in Basil Dmytryshyn (ed.),
Imperial Russia. A Source Book, 1700–1917 (New York, 1967), pp. 265–283
[18pp.]
‘Father Gapon’s petition to Nicholas II, January 22, 1905’ in Dmytryshyn (ed.),
Imperial Russia, pp. 308–313 [5pp.]
‘The October Manifesto, October 30, 1905’ in Dmytryshyn (ed.), Imperial
Russia, pp. 314–315 [2pp.]
‘The Constitution of Imperial Russia, April 23, 1906’ in Dmytryshyn (ed.),
Imperial Russia, pp. 316–324 [8pp.]
‘Programs of Russian Political Parties’ in Dmytryshyn (ed.), Imperial Russia,
pp. 325–350 [25pp.]
Gregory Freeze, From Supplication to Revolution: A Documentary Social
History of Imperial Russia (New York, Oxford, 1988), part three (‘Society in
Revolution, 1905–1906’) [c.100pp.]
‘Manifesto dissolving the Second Duma’ and ‘The Electoral Law of 3 June
1907’ in Martin McCauley, Octobrists to Bolsheviks. Imperial Russia 1905–
1917 (London, 1984), pp. 47–50 [4pp.]
Dmitrii Merezhkovskii, ‘Revolution and Religion’ in Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
and Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak (eds.), A Revolution of the Spirit: Crisis
of Value in Russia, 1890–1924 (New York, 1990), pp. 189–221 [33pp.]
Boris Shragin and Albert Todd (eds.), Landmarks: A Collection of Essays on the
Russian Intelligentsia, 1909 (New York, 1977) [184pp.]
Lev Tolstoi, ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’ in The Kreutzer Sonata and other stories
(Penguin Classics, several editions) [94pp.]
Leonid Andreev, Abyss (Waltham, 1929) [31pp.]
Mikhail Artsybashev, ‘Sanin’ in von Geldern and McReynolds (eds.),
Entertaining Tsarist Russia, pp. 330–333 [4pp.]
Anastasia Verbitskaia, ‘The Keys to Happiness’ in von Geldern and
McReynolds (eds.), Entertaining Tsarist Russia, pp. 333–336 [4pp.]
Count Amori (= Ippolit Rapgof), ‘The Vanquished. A Conclusion to A.
Verbitskaia’s “Keys to Happiness” in von Geldern and McReynolds (eds.),
Entertaining Tsarist Russia, pp. 337–338 [2pp.]
Evdokia Nagrodskaia, ‘The Wrath of Dionysus’ in von Geldern and
McReynolds (eds.), Entertaining Tsarist Russia, pp. 341–348 [7pp.]
Emiliia Pimenova, ‘Bygone Days’ in Clyman and Vowles (eds.), Russia
Through Women’s Eyes, pp. 311–334 [24pp.]
Konstantin Stanislavski, My Life in Art (London, 1980), pp. 311–399, 415–424
[98pp.]
Nikolai Dobroliubov, ‘When will the Day Come?’ in N. A. Dobrolyubov,
Selected Philosophical Essays (Moscow, 1956), pp. 389–441 [52pp.]
Dmitrii Merezhkovskii, ‘On the Reasons for the Decline, and the New Currents,
in Contemporary Russian Literature’ in Ronald E. Peterson (ed. and trans.),
The Russian Symbolists: An Anthology of Critical and Theoretical Writings
(Ann Arbor, 1986), pp. 17–21) [5pp.]
Konstantin Balmont, ‘An Elementary Statement about Symbolist Poetry’ in
Peterson (ed.), The Russian Symbolists, pp. 38–42 [4pp.]
Valerii Briusov, ‘Keys to the Mysteries’ in Peterson (ed.), The Russian
Symbolists, pp. 52–64 [13pp.]
Editorials of the journals Zolotoe runo and Pereval, in Peterson (ed.), The
Russian Symbolists, pp. 200–203 [4pp.]
Andrei Belyi, ‘Symbolism and Contemporary Russian Art’ in Peterson (ed.), The
Russian Symbolists, pp. 97–106 [10pp.]
Aleksandr Blok, ‘On the Present Status of Russian Symbolism’ in Peterson (ed.),
The Russian Symbolists, pp. 157–165 [9pp.]
Sergei Diagilev, ‘Complex Questions: Our Imaginary Decadence’ in Rosenthal
and Bohachevsky-Chomiak (eds.), A Revolution of the Spirit, pp. 83–90
[8pp.]
Vasilii Kandinskii, ‘On the Spiritual in Art’ in John Bowlt and Rose-Carol
Washton Long (eds.), The Life of Vasilii Kandinsky in Russian Art: A Study of
‘On the Spiritual in Art’ (Newtonville, Mass., 1984), pp. 63–112 [50pp.]
‘Slap in the Face of Public Taste’ and ‘From A Trap for Judges, 2’ in Anna
Lawton (ed.), Russian Futurism through Its Manifestoes, 1912–1928 (Ithaca
and London, 1988), pp. 51–54 [4pp.]
‘From The Word as Such’ in Lawton (ed.), Russian Futurism, pp. 57–62 [6pp.]
‘New Ways of the Word (the language of the future, death to Symbolism)’ in
Lawton (ed.), Russian Futurism, pp. 69–77 [9pp.]
Vladimir Maiakovskii, ‘We, Too, Want Meat!’ in Lawton (ed.) Russian
Futurism, pp. 87–89 [3pp.]
Roman Jakobson, My Futurist Years (New York, 1997), pp. 1–49 [50pp.]
Aleksandr Bogdanov, ‘Red Star: A Utopia’ in Loren R. Graham and Richard
Stites (eds.) Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia (Bloomington, 1984), pp.
17–140 [123pp.]
‘Scenes from a Third-Class Car’ in von Geldern and McReynolds (eds.),
Entertaining Tsarist Russia, pp. 183–186 [4pp.]
M. Lentovskii, ‘Sarah Bernhardt or, Loge No.2 in the Dress Circle’ in von
Geldern and McReynolds (eds.), Entertaining Tsarist Russia, pp. 186–197
[12pp.]
‘The Terrible Bandit Churkin’ in von Geldern and McReynolds (eds.),
Entertaining Tsarist Russia, pp. 221–230 [10pp.]
M.D. Klefortov, ‘Light-Fingered Sonya: The Adventures of the Infamous Thief
and Murderess, and Her Imprisonment on Sakhalin’ in von Geldern and
McReynolds (eds.), Entertaining Tsarist Russia, pp. 261–269 [9pp.]
Lidiia Charskaia, ‘The Little Siberian Girl (Sibirochka)’ in von Geldern and
McReynolds (eds.), Entertaining Tsarist Russia, pp. 306–316 [10pp.]
Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovskii, ‘Gladiators of Our Times’ in von Geldern and
McReynolds (eds.), Entertaining Tsarist Russia, pp. 323–329 [7pp.]
Count Amori (= Ippolit Rapgof), ‘The Countess-Actress: A Sensational Story of
Our Times’in von Geldern and McReynolds (eds.), Entertaining Tsarist
Russia, pp. 349–362 [14pp.]
‘Rasputin: The Holy Devil’ in Dmytryshyn (ed.), Imperial Russia, pp. 360–371
[12pp.]
V. V. Ramazanov, ‘Rasputin’s Nighttime Orgies (the Tsarist Miracle-Worker):
A Tale in One Act’ in von Geldern and McReynolds (eds.), Entertaining
Tsarist Russia, pp. 385–390 [6pp.]
‘Politics and War 1914–1917’ (35 documents) in McCauley, Octobrists to
Bolsheviks, pp. 63–104, 107–111 [46pp.]
Valerii Briusov, ‘The Feast of the War’; Konstantin Balmont, ‘The Peal of
Battle’; Aleksandr Blok, ‘Off to War’; Valerii Briusov, ‘The Thirtieth Month’
in Ben Hellman Poets of Hope and Despair: The Russian Symbolists in War
and Revolution (1914–1918) (Helsinki, 1995), pp. 57, 137–138, 169–170,
243–244 [4pp.]
Dmitrii Kol’petti, ‘Dream’ in Hubertus F. Jahn, Patriotic Culture in Russia
during World War I (Ithaca and London, 1995), pp. 92–93 [1p.]
‘The Heroic Feat of the Don Cossack Kuzma Firsovich Kriuchkov’ in von
Geldern and McReynolds (eds.), Entertaining Tsarist Russia, pp. 379–382
[4pp.]
Sergei Sokol’skii, ‘Jackals’ in von Geldern and McReynolds (eds.), Entertaining
Tsarist Russia, pp. 383–385 [3pp.]
‘Documents of the Okhrana on the February Days’ in Robert P. Browder and
Alexander F. Kerensky (eds.) The Russian Provisional Government 1917, 3
vols. (Stanford, 1961) (hereafter BK), vol. 1, no.9 [6pp.]
‘Unofficial Meeting of the Members of the State Duma, 27 February 1917’,
BK1, no.22 [3pp.]
‘To the People of Petrograd and Russia from the Soviet of Workers’ Deputies’,
BK1, no.61 [1p.]
‘Nicholas II Abdicates’ in Martin McCauley (ed.), The Russian Revolution and
the Soviet State 1917–1921. Documents (London, 1975) (hereafter McC),
no.1/6 [1p.]
‘Attitude of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet on the Question of
Participation in the Provisional Government’, McC no. 1/8 [2pp.]
‘Soviet Appeal to All the Peoples of the World, 14 March 1917’, McC no.2/2
[2pp.]
‘Miliukov’s Note of 18 April 1917’, McC no.2/15b [2pp.]
‘Rabochaia Gazeta on the Miliukov Note, 21 April 1917’, BK3, no.1063 [1p.]
‘Appeal of the Soviet Executive Committee to the Citizens and Soldiers, 22
April 1917’, BK3, no.1069 [1p.]
‘Soviet Approval of the Declaration and the Coalition, 6 May 1917’, BK3,
no.1096 [1p.]
‘Appeal of the Provisional Government Concerning the Land Question, 23 April
1917’, BK2, no.470 [1p.]
‘Izvestiia on the Agrarian Question, 14 May 1917’, BK2, no.474 [2pp.]
‘Resolution [of the 1st All-Russian Congress of Peasants’ Soviets] on the Land
Question, 26 May 1917’, BK2, no.518 [4pp.]
‘An Adverse Comment on the Work of the Central Land Committee’, BK2,
no.480 [1p.]
‘Order of the Minister of Food to the Food Supply Committees, 18 July 1917’,
BK2, no.489 [2pp.]
‘Telegram from the Commissar of Kazan’ Guberniya, 31 July 1917’, BK2,
no.512 [1p.]
‘Appeal of the Soviet to the Workers, 9 March 1917’, BK2, no.621 [1p]
‘Agreement on Working Conditions in Petrograd, 11 March 1917’, BK2, no.622
[2pp.]
‘Konovalov’s Distress at Prevailing Economic Conditions, 18 May 1917’, BK2,
no.580 [2pp.]
‘Civil War in the Pipe Factory, 20 May 1917’, BK2, no.631 [1p.]
‘An Appeal from the Minister of Labor, 28 June 1917’, BK2, no.642, [1p.]
‘A Resolution on Lockouts by the Conference of Factory Committees in
Moscow, 24–28 July 1917’, BK2 no.666 [1p.]
‘The Circular of August 28 of the Minister of Labor on the Inadmissability of
Workers’ Meetings During Working Hours’, BK2, no.634 [1p.]
‘Protest Against the August 28 Circular of the Minister of Labor’, BK2, no.635
[1p.]
‘The Reports of Duma Members N.O. Yanushkevich and Father Filonenko on a
Visit to the Front, 13 March 1917’, BK2, no.757 [4pp.]
‘Order of Guchkov on Elective Military Organizations and Disciplinary Courts,
25 April 1917’, BK2, no.770 [2pp.]
‘Declaration of Soldiers’ Rights, 11 May 1917’, BK2, no.773 [3pp.]
‘Army Reports on Bolshevik Subversion at the Front, June–July 1917’, BK2,
no.850 [3pp.]
‘The Restoration of the Death Penalty in Wartime, 12 July 1917’, BK2, no.869
[2pp.]
‘The Petrograd Soviet Demands Abrogation of the Death Penalty, 19 August
1917’, BK2, no.871 [1p.]
‘The Demands of the Central Committee of the Officers’ Union, 22 July 1917’,
BK2, no.878 [1p.]
Lenin ‘The April Theses’, McC no.2/17b [3pp.]
‘Kamenev Dissents’, McC no.2/17c [1p.]
‘The Soviet Appeal, 4 July 1917’, McC no.2/8a [1p.]
‘The Bolshevik Proclamations of the Nights of July 4 and 5’, BK3, no.1157a
[1p.]
‘Statement by Prince L’vov Concerning his Resignation, 9 July 1917’, BK3,
no.1186 [2pp.]
‘Novoe Vremia on the New Government, 25 July 1917’, BK3, no.1207 [1p.]
‘Rabochaia Gazeta on the New Government, 26 July 1917’, BK3, no.1210
[2pp.]
‘Kerensky’s Telegram to All the Country, 27 August 1917’, McC no.2/11a [1p.]
‘Violence in Vyborg, 2 September 1917’, BK3, no.1309 [1p.]
‘The Bolsheviks take over Direction of the Petrograd Soviet, 10 September
1917’, BK3, no.1369 [2pp.]
‘Lenin Calls for an Uprising, 12–14 September 1917’, McC no.4/1 [2pp.]
‘Kamenev and Zinoviev Oppose Uprising, 11 October 1917’, McC no.4/2 [3pp.]
‘The Decree on Peace, 26 October/8 November 1917’, McC no.5/4 [2pp.]
‘The Land Decree, 26 October/8 November 1917’, McC no.7/10a [3pp.]
‘Decree on the Press, 27 October/9 November 1917’, McC no.6/9 [2pp.]
‘The Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, 6/19 January 1918’, McC no.6/6
[2pp.]
‘Establishment of the Cheka, 7/20 December 1917’, McC no.6/3 [1p.]
-Gypsy Romances, Revolutionary and Popular Songs (some of them will be
available as recordings in class)
‘Dark Eyes’, ‘The Great Moscow Fire’, ‘Korobeiniki (The Peddlers)’, ‘Troika’,
‘Varsovienne’, ‘Work and Play’, ‘Three Husbands’, ‘Bum-ta-ra-ta-ta’, ‘The
Poor Fellow Died’ and ‘Marusia Poisoned Herself’ in von Geldern and
McReynolds (eds.), Entertaining Tsarist Russia, pp. 108–110, 175–177, 270–
271, 279–283, 286–292 [19pp.]
Aleksandr Vertinskii, ‘Today I laugh at myself’ (1915), ‘Smoke without Fire’
(1916), ‘Little cocaine girl (1916), ‘What I have to say’ (1917) (personal
translation, available in photocopy) [4pp.]
[Total Text Pages c.1760]
Visual sources
David King and Cathy Porter, Images of Revolution: Graphic Art from 1905
Russia (New York 1983): ‘The Treacherous Neva Reflected Everything’
(p.108); ‘Has He the Strength…?’ (p.111); I. Bodianskii, back cover of
‘Zarnitsy’ (Summer Lightning) (p.114); Boris Kustodiev, ‘Invasion’ pp. 118–
119); Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, ‘October Idyll’ (p.120)
William Craft Brumfield, The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture
(Berkeley, 1991): plates 14–20 (Fedor Shekhtel, mansion of S. P.
Riabushinskii)
The Twilight of the Tsars. Russian Art at the Turn of the Century (London,
1991): Boris Zvorykin, ‘Programme for the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre’
(p.153); commercial posters (pp. 156–161, 168–169)
Hubertus F. Jahn, Patriotic Culture in Russia during World War I (Ithaca and
London, 1995): 11 patriotic posters and postcards, pp. 16–17, 22, 25–27, 53,
69, 77–79
[c.40 images]
Films
A selection of pre-1917 films will be shown in class
For Reference
Studies of the Western fin de siècle
Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern
Age (New York, 1989)
Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin 1900 (Cambridge, Mass., 1996)
Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin, Wittgenstein’s Vienna (New York, 1973)
Peter Jelavich, Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and
Performance, 1890–1914 (Cambridge, Mass., 1985)
Peter Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret (Cambridge, Mass., 1993)
Charles Rearick, Pleasures of the Belle Epoque: Entertainment and Festivity in
Turn-of-the-Century France (New Haven and London, 1985)
Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (New York, 1961)
Mikulás Teich and Roy Porter, Fin de siècle and its legacy (Cambridge, 1990)
Judith R. Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in
Late-Victorian London (Chicago, 1992)
Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European
Cultural History (Cambridge, 1995)
Robert Wohl, The Generation of 1914 (Cambridge, Mass., 1979)
Larry Woolf, Child Abuse in Freud’s Vienna: Postcards from the End of the
World (New York, 1988)
Studies of the Russian fin de siècle
John Bowlt, The Silver Age: Russian Art of the Early Twentieth Century and the
“World of Art” Group (Newtonville, Mass., 1979)
John Bowlt and Olga Matich (eds.), Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian AvantGarde and Cultural Experiment (Stanford, 1996)
Joseph Bradley, Muzhik and Muscovite: Urbanization in Late Imperial Russia
(Berkeley, 1985)
Jeffrey Brooks, When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature,
1861–1917 (Princeton, 1985)
Daniel R. Brower, The Russian City between Tradition and Modernity 1850–
1900 (Berkeley, 1990)
Daniel R. Brower and Edward J. Lazzerini (eds.), Russia’s Orient: Imperial
Borderlands and Peoples, 1700–1917 (Bloomington, 1997)
William Brumfield, History of Russian Architecture (Cambridge, 1993)
Chris Chulos, Converging Worlds: Religion and Community in Peasant Russia,
1861–1917 (DeKalb, 2003)
Barbara Evans Clements, Barbara Alpern Engel and Christine Worobec (eds.),
Russia’s Women: Accomodation, Resistance, Transformation (Berkeley,
1991)
Edith W. Clowes, Samuel D. Kassow and James L. West (eds.), Between Tsar
and People: Educated Society and the Quest for Public Identity in Late
Imperial Russia (Princeton 1991)
Linda Edmondson, Feminism in Russia 1900–1917 (London, 1984)
Ben Eklof, Russian Peasant Schools: Officialdom, Village Culture, and Popular
Pedagogy, 1861–1914 (Berkeley, 1986)
Ben Eklof and Stephen P. Frank (eds.), The World of the Russian Peasant: PostEmancipation Culture and Society (London, 1990)
Barbara Alpern Engel, Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and
Family in Russia, 1861–1914 (Cambridge and New York, 1995)
Laura Engelstein, The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in
Fin-de-Siècle Russia (Ithaca and London, 1992)
Catherine Evtuhov, The Cross and the Sickle: Sergei Bulgakov and the Fate of
Russian Religious Philosophy, 1890–1920 (Ithaca and London, 1997)
Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii, Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The
Language and Symbols of 1917 (New Haven, 1999)
Stephen P. Frank and Mark D. Steinberg (eds.), Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class
Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia (Princeton, 1994)
Stephen P. Frank, Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856–
1914 (Berkeley, 1999)
Cathy A. Frierson, Peasant Icons: Representations of Rural People in
Nineteenth-Century Russia (New York, 1992)
Peter Gatrell, A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War I
(Bloomington, 1999)
Rose L. Glickman, Russian Factory Women: Workplace and Society, 1880–1914
(Berkeley, 1984)
Camilla Gray, The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863–1922. London, 1962
Leopold Haimson, The Russian Marxists and the Origins of Bolshevism
(Cambridge, 1955)
Marjorie Hilton, Selling to the Masses: Retailing in Russia, 1880-1930
(Pittsburgh, 2012)
Robert P. Hughes, Irina Paperno and Olga Raevsky-Hughes (eds.), Christianity
and the Eastern Slavs. Vol. 3: Russian Literature in Modern Times (Berkeley,
1995)
Hubertus F. Jahn, Patriotic Culture in Russia during World War I (Ithaca and
London, 1995)
Daniel Kaiser (ed.), The Workers’ Revolution in Russia 1917: The View from
Below (Cambridge, 1989)
Catriona Kelly, Petrushka: The Russian Carnival Puppet Theatre (Cambridge,
1990)
Catriona Kelly and David Shepherd (eds.), Constructing Russian Culture in an
Age of Revolution: 1881–1940 (Oxford, 1998)
Julia Mannherz, Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia (DeKalb, 2012)
Vladimir Markov, Russian Futurism: A History (Berkeley, 1968)
Irene Masing-Delic, Abolishing Death: A Salvation Myth of Russian TwentiethCentury Literature (Stanford, 1992)
Olga Matich, The Religious Poetry of Zinaïda Gippius (Munich, 1972)
Olga Matich, Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia’s Fin-deSiècle (Madison, 2005)
Colleen McQuillen, The Modernist Masquerade: Stylizing Life, Literature, and
Costumes in Russia (Madison, 2013)
Louise McReynolds, Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist
Era (Ithaca and London, 2003)
Louise McReynolds, The News under Russia’s Old Regime: The Development of
a Mass-Circulation Press (Princeton, 1991)
Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger (eds.), Imitations of Life: Two
Centuries of Melodrama in Russia (Durham, 2002)
Susan K. Morrissey, Heralds of Revolution: Russian Students and the
Mythologies of Radicalism
(New York, 1998)
Susan K. Morrissey, Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia
(Cambridge, 2006)
Joan Neuberger, Hooliganism: Crime, Culture, and Power in St. Petersburg,
1900–1914 (Berkeley, 1993)
Irina Paperno and Joan Grossman (eds.), Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of
Russian Modernism (Stanford, 1988
Ekaterina Pravilova, A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common
Good in Imperial Russia (Princeton, 2014)
George Putnam, Russian Alternatives to Marxism (Knoxville, 1977)
Christopher Read, Religion, Revolution, and the Russian Intelligentsia, 1900–
1912: The Vehki Debate and its Intellectual Background (London, 1979)
William Richardson, Zolotoe Runo and Russian Modernism (Ann Arbor, 1986)
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal (ed.), Nietzsche in Russia (Princeton, 1986)
Thofanis George Stavrou, Art and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Russia
(Bloomington, 1983)
Mark D. Steinberg, Moral Communities: The Culture of Class Relations in the
Russian Printing Industry, 1867–1907 (Berkeley, 1992)
Mark Steinberg, Petersburg Fin de Siècle (New Haven, 2011)
Richard Stites, Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society since 1900
(Cambridge, 1992)
Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in
the Russian Revolution (Oxford and New York, 1989)
Richard Stites, Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia (New Haven,
2005)
Richard Stites, The Women’s Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism,
Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860–1930 (Princeton, 1978)
E. Anthony Swift, Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia (Berkeley,
2002)
Richard Taylor and Ian Christie (eds.), The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet
Cinema in Documents, 1896–1939 (London, 1988)
Yuri Tsivian, Silent Witnesses: Russian Films 1908–1919 (London, 1989)
Iuri Tsivian, Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception (London, 1994)
William G. Wagner, Marriage, Property, and the Law in Late Imperial Russia
(Oxford, 1994)
Allan Wildman, The Making of a Workers’ Revolution: Russian Social
Democracy, 1891–1903 (Chicago, 1967)
Robert C. Williams, Artists in Revolution. Portraits of the Russian Avant-garde,
1905–1925 (London, 1978)
Richard Wortman, Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian
Monarchy, vol. 2 (Princeton, 2000)
Denise Younblood, The Magic Mirror: Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-1918
(Madison, 1999)
Nicholas Zernov, The Russian Religious Renaissance of the Twentieth Century
(New York, 1963)