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This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the social and cultural life of late imperial Russia describes the struggle of new elites to take up a "middle position" in society--between tsar and people. During this period autonomous social and cultural institutions, pluralistic political life, and a dynamic economy all seemed to be emerging: Russia was experiencing a sense of social possibility akin to that which Gorbachev wishes to reanimate in the Soviet Union. But then, as now, diversity had as its price the potential for political disorder and social dissolution. Analyzing the attempt of educated Russians to forge new identities, this book reveals the social, cultural, and regional fragmentation of the times. The contributors are Harley Balzer, John E. Bowlt, Joseph Bradley, William C. Brumfield, Edith W. Clowes, James M. Curtis, Ben Eklof, Gregory L. Freeze, Abbott Gleason, Samuel D. Kassow, Mary Louise Loe, Louise McReynolds, Sidney Monas, John O. Norman, Daniel T. Orlovsky, Thomas C. Owen, Alfred Rieber, Bernice G. Rosenthal, Christine Ruane, Charles E. Timberlake, William Wagner, and James L. West. Samuel D. Kassow has written a conclusion to the volume.

Intellectuals --- Middle class --- Intellectuels --- Classes moyennes --- History --- Histoire --- Russia --- URSS --- Russie --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- bourgeoisie (classe sociale) --- Élite (sciences sociales) --- vie intellectuelle --- 1917 --- Conditions sociales --- Acmeism. --- Bolshevism. --- Bulgakov, S. --- Café Pittoresque. --- Decembrists. --- Economic Discussions. --- Education Statute (1874). --- Free Economic Society. --- Free Russian Press. --- Gagarin family. --- Gilded Age, in Russia. --- Hobsbawm, E. --- Holy Synod. --- Jewish writers. --- Kantianism. --- Kornilov Affair. --- Luxemburg, R. --- Menshevism. --- Ministry of Internal Affairs. --- Moscow Legal Society. --- Peredvizhniki. --- aesthetism. --- agronomy. --- aristocracy. --- art patronage. --- autocracy. --- bureaucracy. --- business. --- cabarets. --- class struggle. --- cubo-futurism. --- dechristianization. --- division of labor. --- embourgeoisement. --- entrepreneurs. --- famine of 1891. --- gentry. --- guidebooks of Moscow. --- illegitimacy. --- industrialists. --- industrialization. --- industry. --- kupechestvo. --- liberalism. --- magic lantern show. --- merchant-entrepreneurs. --- nationalism. --- neo-Slavophilism. --- neoclassicism. --- obshchina. --- petroleum industry. --- professionalization. --- progressist movement. --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russland --- Ṛusastan --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian Empire --- Rosja --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) --- Classe moyenne --- Petite bourgeoisie --- Bourgeoisie --- Hommes des classes moyennes --- Femmes des classes moyennes --- Classes sociales --- Élites (sciences sociales) --- Establishment --- Haute société --- Notables --- Société, Haute --- Dignitaires --- Élitisme --- Femmes du monde --- Personnel hautement qualifié --- Classes dirigeantes --- Hommes du monde --- Pouvoir communautaire --- Évergétisme --- Groupes sociaux --- Leadership --- Pouvoir (sciences sociales) --- Table des Rangs (Russie)