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Ethnic Modernity and the Russian Empire: Russian Ethnographers and Caucasian Mountaineers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Austin Lee Jersild
Austin Lee Jersild*
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Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
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Late Imperial Russian society experienced a time of profound social and cultural change in spite of the fact that aristocratic privilege and monarchical power endured until 1917. Contemporary writers bear witness to an emerging working-class consciousness in the cities, a peasant culture increasingly in contact with the wider world of the city and beyond, and a literary culture shaped by the latest currents in the experimental modernism of the West.1 Scholars have long explored the Russian variant of interest group politics that emerged in the wake of the Great Reforms, such as technological innovation and the Russian Navy, the development of a legal consciousness, new cultural expectations about the city and the process of urbanization, the modern aspirations and ambitions of a thriving popular culture, and even an emerging modern set of assumptions about individual sexual autonomy.2

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 641 - 648
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Copyright © 1996 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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