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University of California Press Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900

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The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900 by Daniel R. Brower explores how Russia’s urban centers became key arenas of reform, contestation, and cultural imagination in the late tsarist era. Between the Great Reforms and the Revolution of 1905, provincial towns joined Moscow and St. Petersburg as sites of demographic growth, manufacturing, trade, education, and print culture. Cities embodied both the promises and perils of reform: they symbolized progress toward enlightenment, prosperity, and order, but also revealed tensions between servility and freedom, backwardness and civilization. Brower examines not only population movements, economic activity, and municipal regulations but also the ideals, debates, and practices through which urban dwellers sought to make the city their own. Blending quantitative analysis with cultural and anthropological perspectives, Brower introduces the concept of “urbanism” to capture how Russians perceived and shaped their towns in dialogue with Western models and fears. Merchants, migrants, doctors, educators, and officials all created “multiple urban images,” whether celebrating industriousness, condemning disorder, or advocating sanitation, schooling, and civic order. Drawing on census data, archival sources, and the print culture of nearly sixty centers, Brower develops a model of the “migrant city” while situating Russian urbanism in broader European contexts. His synthesis highlights the city’s central role in Russia’s social transformation, placing urban history alongside rural experience as essential to understanding the tensions between tradition and modernity in late imperial Russia. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

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28 May 2021
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