Urban Zemliachestva and Rural Revolution
Petrograd and the Smolensk Countryside in 1917
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12428746 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael C Hickey (1(Bloomsbury UniversityBloomsburg, PA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 143-159 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1075-1262 • E-ISSN: 1876-3324 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/187633296x00113 |
| OpenAlex | W2102534893 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
MICHAEL C. HICKEY (Bloomsburg, PA, USA) URBAN ZEMLIACHESTVA AND RURAL REVOLUTION: PETROGRAD AND THE SMOLENSK COUNTRYSIDE IN 1917 In a recent essay on the language of revolution in 1917, Orlando Figes argued that urban political "missionaries" to the village could not bridge the linguistic gulf separating them from peasants.' According to Figes, "All these missionaries faced the same problem: how to talk to the peasants about politics so that they would listen and understand."2 But two groups most active in spreading the revolutionary word in fact spoke the peasants' language fluently-either as their principle tongue or as "bi-linguals"-peas- ant soldiers
Art history · Economic history · Hickey · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rural area · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2019 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |