Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections Edited by Reginald E. Zelnik 1999, ISBN: 0-87725-001-4 SUGGESTED CITATION: Reginald E. Zelnik, ed. Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections. University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, Research Series #101, 1999. http://repositories.cdlib.org/uciaspubs/research/101 This work has been peer reviewed.

The collapse of the Soviet Union opened previously unimagined possibilities for insight into Russian social, intellectual, and political history. This volume, a collaboration of American, Russian, and West European scholars, illuminates the creation and complex dynamics of the Russian industrial working class from its peasant origins in the mid-nineteenth century to the collapse of the imperial system in 1917. The authors focus on the shifting attitudes, cultural norms, self-representations, and increasing self-consciousness of workers as they interacted with the new social movements, student groups, the Church, and most dramatically, the political (mainly radical and liberal) intelligentsia. But the authors also examine the obverse: the contending representations of workers by the intelligentsia as they interacted with each other ever more intensely during this turbulent period leading up to the Russian Revolution. The result is a fascinating and detailed account of social and cultural transformation in a key period of Russian — and world — history.

Contents

Front Matter, including Dedication, Acknowledgments, Frequently Used Abbreviations and Russian Terms, Reginald E. Zelnik (p. i-xi)

Introduction, Reginald E. Zelnik (p. 1-15)

Workers and Intelligentsia in the 1870s: The Politics of Sociability, Reginald E. Zelnik (p. 16-54)

Narodnaia Volia and the Worker, Deborah L. Pearl (p. 55-75)

The Mentality of the Workers of Russia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Yurii I. Kir'ianov (p. 76-101)

Petersburg Workers and the Intelligentsia on the Eve of the Revolution of 1905–7: The Assembly of Russian Factory and Mill Workers of the City of St. Petersburg, Sergei I. Potolov (p. 102-115)

The Petersburg Workers’ Organization and the Politics of "Economism," 1900–1903, Gerald D. Surh (p. 116-144)

Russian Workers' Political and Social Identities: The Role of Social Representations in the Interaction between Members of the Labor Movement and the Social Democratic Intelligentsia, Leopold H. Haimson (p. 145-171)

The Relationship between the Intelligentsia and Workers: The Case of the Party Schools in Capri and Bologna , Jutta Scherrer (p. 172-185)

Workers, the Intelligentsia, and Social Democracy in St. Petersburg, 1895–1917, S. A. Smith (p. 186-205)

The Socialist Revolutionary Party of Russia and the Workers, 1900–1914, Manfred Hildermeier (p. 206-227)

Representing Workers and the Liberal Narrative of Modernity, William G. Rosenberg (p. 228-259)

Workers' Theater and "Proletarian Culture" in Prerevolutionary Russia, 1905–17, E. Anthony Swift (p. 260-291)

When the Word Was the Deed: Workers vs. Employers before the Justices of the Peace, Joan Neuberger (p. 292-308)

The Injured and Insurgent Self: The Moral Imagination of Russia’s Lower-Class Writers, Mark Steinberg (p. 309-329)

Patriots or Proletarians? Russian Workers and the First World War, Hubertus F. Jahn (p. 330-347)

Notes on Contributors, Reginald E. Zelnik (p. 349)