Russia's revolutionaries on vacation
Anti-government activities in the Finnish countryside, 1900-17
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4558221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kitty Lam (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 247 |
| Pages | 57-75 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2281.12155 |
| OpenAlex | W2573011126 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article challenges the notion of leisure space as apolitical by investigating why the Karelian Isthmus dacha settlements, located in the Grand Duchy of Finland, served as preparation grounds for clandestine political activity. Using memoirs, newspapers and Russian archival sources, this article reveals how Finland's legal position in the Russian empire, combined with the particularities of dacha life, enabled revolutionary activity in places primarily associated with leisure. Far from being innocuous vacation destinations removed from political problems, the dacha settlements in Finland exposed the diminished capacity of tsarist authorities' actions on the fringes of the Russian empire
Archaeology · Economic history · Empire · Human settlement · Memoir · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · History · Law · Night-time city culture · Philosophy · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |