Kindertempel or Shack? The School Building in Late Imperial Russia (A Case Study of Backwardness)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3371163 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Eklof, Бен Эклоф (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 117 |
| Publication date | 1988-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Russian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0341 • E-ISSN: 1467-9434 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/129956 |
| OpenAlex | W2331859945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
The notion of backwardness informs most discussions of the tsarist empire at the turn of this century. Russia is generally depicted as ruled by the knout and Cossack whip, lagging far behind the West in the provision of basic human rights and in the organization of political affairs. Her agriculture remained primitive, living standards abysmally low, and conditions in factory, peasant hut, or city slum revolting. It was the deep-rooted agrarian crisis in Russia, in conjunction with the failure of the tsarist government to improve life in factory and city, which contributed to social tensions leading directly into the Russian Revolution. Nowhere is the notion of backwardness more evident than in the area of
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2024 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |