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Heralds of revolution : Russian students and the mythologies of radicalism

Title: Heralds of revolution : Russian students and the mythologies of radicalism / Susan K. Morrissey.
Author: Morrissey, Susan K., 1963-
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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viii, 288 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

The grandiose unfolding of radical consciousness in pre-revolutionary Russia has long been scorned by historians as a myth, an invention of Soviet propagandists. Yet letters, diaries, articles, and memoirs from the period all routinely evoke the evolution of radical consciousness as a real and lived experience. Heralds of Revolution is the first work to take this myth seriously and to tell its history. The Russian radical's "story of consciousness" often began with a provincial student's journey to the university in search of enlightenment and culminated in his or her conversion to revolutionary activity. Morrissey follows the student along the way, into a world of secret study circles and spy hunts, mass meetings and academic strikes, all of which eventually became monuments of radical lore and collective memory. After 1905, the Russian student movement lost some its coherence. Its myth was challenged by everyday realities and unexpected developments, such as the rise of right-wing extremism in the universities, new educational opportunities for women, and an epidemic of suicide. Both liberals and radicals attacked a new generation of students, now no longer heralds of revolution. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources from Russian archives and libraries, including proclamations, medical treatises, songs, police reports, and suicide letters, Morrissey throws new light on the dynamics of political and cultural change in late Imperial Russia and poses provocative questions about the pre-revolutionary antecedents of the founding myths of the Soviet Union. This work will appeal to historians of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as specialists in Slavic culture and literature.

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Genre/Form

Electronic books.
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-277) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Narrative and Identity in Russian Radical Culture -- The Making of Revolutionary Heroes -- Myths and Memories: The New People in the University -- The Birth of Student Radicalism -- The Studenchestvo -- Radicalism as Bildungsroman -- Students' Stories -- From a Female Point of View -- The Rise of Consciousness: The Student Movement, 1899-1904 -- The 1899 Strike -- A Bourgeois Studenchestvo? -- The Call of Solidarity -- Assessments of 1899 -- Turning to the Streets -- The Boundaries of Community -- The Period of Differentiation -- Righteous Men and Sinners: Honor and the Politics of "Personal" Life -- The Politics of Purity -- The Politics of Gender -- The Politics of Daily Life -- When the Street Entered the University: The Revolution of 1905-1907 -- Students on Strike -- The Powers of Studenchestvo -- The Hearth of Democracy -- The People's University -- The Specter of Violence -- Temple of Science or Building for Meetings? -- The Free University -- The Mire of Life -- From Icon of New Order to Symbol of Disorder: Students and the End of Revolution -- A Reappraisal of Values -- Rewriting the Past -- The Lures of Capitalism -- The Triumphant March of History -- The Decline and Fall of Studenchestvo -- The Promise of Education: Women Students in the Public Eye -- Prostitute and Mother -- Fruits of Revolution -- Women in the University -- A New Woman? -- Feminism, Socialism, and Science -- "It Is Good to Die Young": Heroic Ends and the Search for a New Story -- Epidemic Suicide and the Revolutionary Experience.

ISBN

0195115449
9780195115444

LCCN

97002262

OCLC

ocm36307883
36307883
SCSB-8896875

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library