Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Editorial Conventions
- Introduction: The Subalterns Speak Out: Gerasim and the Infamous
- 1 Writing Degree Zero, and Beyond: Reading Social Practices between the Lines
- 2 The Middle Volga City as the Middle Ground: Urban Plebeian Society
- 3 The Patriarchal Metropolis: Trespassing Social Barriers in Late Imperial Vilna
- 4 “We Only Kill Each Other”: The Anthropology of Deadly Violence and Contested Intergroup Boundaries
- 5 The Transformative Social Experience of Illegality
- Epilogue: Gerasim in Power: A Plebeian Modernity
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Note on Editorial Conventions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Editorial Conventions
- Introduction: The Subalterns Speak Out: Gerasim and the Infamous
- 1 Writing Degree Zero, and Beyond: Reading Social Practices between the Lines
- 2 The Middle Volga City as the Middle Ground: Urban Plebeian Society
- 3 The Patriarchal Metropolis: Trespassing Social Barriers in Late Imperial Vilna
- 4 “We Only Kill Each Other”: The Anthropology of Deadly Violence and Contested Intergroup Boundaries
- 5 The Transformative Social Experience of Illegality
- Epilogue: Gerasim in Power: A Plebeian Modernity
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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- Plebeian ModernitySocial Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 1906–1916, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018