In modernizing Russia, obshchestvennost', an indigenous Russian word, began functioning as an indispensable term to illuminate newly emerging active parts of society and their public identities. This volume approaches various phenomena associated with obshchestvennost' across the revolutionary divide of 1917, targeting a critic and the commercial press in the late Imperial society, workers and the public opinion in the revolutionary turmoil of 1905, the liberals during the first world war, worker-peasant correspondents in the 1920s, community activists in the 1930s, medical professionals...
In modernizing Russia, obshchestvennost', an indigenous Russian word, began functioning as an indispensable term to illuminate newly emerging active p...