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A pivotal year in the history of the Russian Empire, 1913 marks the tercentennial celebration of the Romanov Dynasty, the infamous anti-Semitic Beilis Trial, Russia's first celebration of International Women's Day, the ministerial boycott of the Duma, and the amnestying of numerous prisoners and political exiles, along with many other important events. A vibrant public sphere existed in Russia's last full year of peace prior to war and revolution. During this time a host of voluntary associations, a lively and relatively free press, the rise of progressive municipal governments, the growth of legal consciousness, the advance of market relations and new concepts of property tenure in the countryside, and the spread of literacy were tranforming Russian society.Russia in 1913 captures the complexity of the economy and society in the brief period between the revolution of 1905 and the outbreak of war in 1914 and shows how the widely accepted narrative about pre-war late Imperial Russia has failed in significant ways. While providing a unique synthesis of the historiography, Dowler also uses reportage from two newspapers to create a fuller impression of the times. This engaging and important study will appeal both to Russian studies scholars and serious readers of history.

Civil society --- Social contract --- History --- Russia --- Soviet Union --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- International Women's Day, Russian Empire, Russian Revolution, Imperial Russia.

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This is the most comprehensive study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and significance of the new "people's theaters" that were created for the lower classes in St. Petersburg and Moscow between 1861 and 1917. His extensively researched study, full of anecdotes from the theater world of the day, shows how these people's theaters became a major arena in which the cultural contests of late imperial Russia were played out and how they contributed to the emergence of an urban consumer culture during this period of rapid social and political change. Swift illuminates many aspects of the story of these popular theaters-the cultural politics and aesthetic ambitions of theater directors and actors, state censorship politics and their role in shaping the theatrical repertoire, and the theater as a vehicle for social and political reform. He looks at roots of the theaters, discusses specific theaters and performances, and explores in particular how popular audiences responded to the plays.

Popular culture --- Theater --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- History. --- actors. --- aesthetics. --- audience response. --- censorship. --- consumer culture. --- directors. --- dissident. --- factory workers. --- imperial russia. --- moscow. --- peoples theater. --- performance. --- performing arts. --- political change. --- political reform. --- politics. --- popular culture. --- popular theater. --- protest. --- reform. --- resistance. --- revolution. --- russia. --- russian culture. --- russian history. --- russian politics. --- russian revolution. --- russian theater. --- serfs. --- social change. --- st petersburg. --- theater critics. --- theater. --- theaters. --- theatrical repertoire. --- tsarist russia. --- working class.

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Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834-1907) is a name we recognize, but perhaps only as the creator of the periodic table of elements. Generally, little else has been known about him. A Well-Ordered Thing is an authoritative biography of Mendeleev that draws a multifaceted portrait of his life for the first time. As Michael Gordin reveals, Mendeleev was not only a luminary in the history of science, he was also an astonishingly wide-ranging political and cultural figure. From his attack on Spiritualism to his failed voyage to the Arctic and his near-mythical hot-air balloon trip, this is the story of an extraordinary maverick. The ideals that shaped his work outside science also led Mendeleev to order the elements and, eventually, to engineer one of the most fascinating scientific developments of the nineteenth century. A Well-Ordered Thing is a classic work that tells the story of one of the world's most important minds.

Chemists --- Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich, --- Russia --- Intellectual life --- Chemical workers --- Physical scientists --- Менделеев, Дмитрий Иванович, --- Mendeleev, Dmitriĭ Ivanovich, --- Mendelejeff, D. I., --- Mendeleeff, D. I., --- Менделѣев, Дмитрій Иванович, --- Mendeli︠e︡ev, Dmitrīĭ Ivanovich, --- Mendělejev, Dimitrij Ivanovicč, --- Менделѣѣв, Д. И., --- Mendeli︠e︡i︠e︡v, D. I., --- Mendeljejev, Dmitrij Ivanovicč, --- Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich, --- Mendeleyev, D. I., --- Mendeleev, D. I. --- Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich, --- Mendelejew, D. J., --- Mendelejeff, D., --- Менделѣев, Д. --- Mendeli︠e︡ev, D. --- Mendeléiev, Dimitri I., --- Mendelejew, Dmitri Iwanowitsch, --- Mendelejew, D. I. --- Soviet Union --- Academy of Sciences. --- Dmitrii Mendeleev. --- European science. --- Great Reforms. --- Imperial Academy of Sciences. --- Imperial Petersburg. --- Imperial Russia. --- Imperial systems. --- Mediumistic Phenomena. --- Russia. --- Russian Chemical Society. --- Russian Physical Society. --- Russian Spiritualism. --- Russian chauvinism. --- Russian culture. --- Russian education. --- Russian stability. --- Spiritualism. --- St. Petersburg University. --- St. Petersburg. --- autocracy. --- bureaucracy. --- chemistry. --- classification. --- cultural conflict. --- educational reform. --- gas laws. --- general examinations. --- history of science. --- individual innovation. --- liberalism. --- maverick. --- periodic law. --- periodic system. --- periodic table. --- physics. --- religion. --- rule of law. --- scientific societies. --- seances. --- student rebellion. --- superstition. --- teaching. --- technology. --- tsarist regime. --- universality.