"Russian populism, the belief that the peasantry embodied authentic Russian identity and once liberated from their poverty would lead the country to a brighter future, has animated Russian thought across the political spectrum and inspired much of Russia's world-historical liter…
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: toward a definition of Russian populism -- Origins -- Foundations -- Populism in theory -- Populism in action -- Populist art -- Regrets and revisions -- Neo-populism -- Conclusion -- Selected further reading -- Bibliography -- I…
"Russian populism, the belief that the peasantry embodied authentic Russian identity and once liberated from their poverty would lead the country to a brighter future, has animated Russian thought across the political spectrum and inspired much of Russia's world-historical liter…
St. Petersburg: from space of representation to embattled public sphere -- Nihilism: self-fashioning and subculture in the city -- Underground pioneers -- To the people and back -- City synergy -- Organized troglodytes: building up the underground -- Battleground Petersburg -- T…