All Russia Is Burning! – A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia: All Russia Is Burning!
Autor Cathy A. Friersonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 iul 2015
Using sources ranging from literary representations and newspaper articles to statistical tables and court records, Frierson demonstrates the many meanings fire held for both peasants and the educated elite. To peasants, it was an essential source of light and warmth as well as a destructive force that regularly ignited their cramped villages of wooden, thatch-roofed huts. Absent the rule of law, they often used arson to gain justice or revenge, or to exert social control over those who would violate village norms. Frierson shows that the vast majority of arson cases in European Russia were not peasant-against-gentry acts of protest but peasant-against-peasant acts of "self-help" law or plain spite.
Both the state and individual progressives set out to resolve the fire question and to educate, cajole, or coerce the peasantry into the modern world. Fire insurance, building codes, "scientific" village layouts, and volunteer firefighting brigades reduced the average number of buildings consumed in each blaze, but none of these measures succeeded in curbing the number of fires each year.
More than anything else, this history of fire and arson in rural European Russia is a history of their cultural meanings in the late imperial campaign for modernity. Frierson shows the special associations of women with fire in rural life and in elite understanding of fire in the Russian countryside. Her study of the fire question demonstrates both peasant agency in fighting fire and educated Russians' hardening conviction that peasants stood in the way of Russia's advent into the company of prosperous, rational, civilized nations.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780295995878
ISBN-10: 0295995874
Pagini: 306
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press
Seria All Russia Is Burning!
ISBN-10: 0295995874
Pagini: 306
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press
Seria All Russia Is Burning!