Proletarian peasants : the revolution of 1905 in Russia's southwest /

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Author / Creator:Edelman, Robert, 1945-
Imprint:Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1987.
Description:1 online resource (xv, 195 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11396689
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ISBN:0801420083
9781501707674
1501707671
150170768X
9781501707681
9780801494734
9780801420085
0801420083
0801494737
0801494737
0801420008
9780801420009
Notes:Includes indexes.
"Bibliographical note": pages 181-183
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Summary:In this book, conceived and written for the general reader as well as the specialist, Robert Edelman uses a case study of peasant behavior during a particular revolutionary situation to make an important contribution to one of the major debates in contemporary peasant studies. Edelman's subject is the peasantry of the right-bank Ukraine, and he uses local and regional archives seldom available to Western scholars to give a detailed picture of the ways in which the inhabitants of one of Russia's most advanced agrarian regions expressed their discontent during the years 1905-1907. By the 1890s, the landlords of Russia's Southwest had organized a highly successful capitalist form of agriculture, and Edelman demonstrates that their peasants responded to these dramatic economic changes by adopting many of the forms of political and social behavior generally associated with urban proletarians.
Other form:Print version: Proletarian peasants. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1987 0801494737
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An intriguing and lively argument on behalf of the stage viability of a play whose critical importance has most often been connected to the question of Shakespeare's authorship of an added fragment. McMillin demonstrates that The Book of Sir Thomas More, ed. by W.W. Greg, (1911-manuscript in the British Museum), bears striking resemblance to other plays produced by Lord Strange's men at the Rose Theatre, primarily because More's needs for a large cast and for a relatively large inner below and platform match the Rose's repertory of the early 1590s. McMillin suggests that many revisions occurred a decade later, at the time of Edward Alleyn's return to the stage. An appendix hypothesizes that Hand D, reputed to be Shakespeare's, bears resemblance to the unidentified Hand C, a functionary who probably participated in revisions. The suggestion is meant to set to rest the debates over authorship and raise the possibility that master and slave-genius poet and theater functionary-are the same. McMillin's study demonstrates just how speculative research in theater staging must be. To some, this stance fits today's critical attitudes; to others, the book will be inaccessible, both because the full script of More is not widely available in print, and because reading McMillin demands knowledge of the history of debate over this text. Graduate collections.-J.E. Gates, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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