Democracy Burning? : Urban Fire Departments and the Limits of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1914

ISBN-13: 9780773537798 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 270 str.

Nigel Raab

Opis

Nineteenth-century commentators often claimed that Russia burned to the ground every thirty years. In an empire whose cities were built of wood, firefighters had a visible presence throughout Russia's urban centres and became politically active across the country. Democracy Burning? studies the political, cultural, and social values of volunteer firefighters and reveals the ways in which their public organizations cooperated with the authoritarian state.