The Family in Imperial Russia : new lines of historical research / edited by David L. Ransel
1978, 1st edition. Urbana : University of Illinois Press. Fine cloth copy in a very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #425928
ISBN: 0252007018
Physical description; 342 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Oct. 1976. Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-335) and index. Contents; Introduction / David L. Ransel -- Section one. Psychological dimensions of family relations -- Mothers and daughters : family patterns and the female intelligentsia / Barbara Alpern Engel -- The Russian Empress as mother / Richard Wortman -- Section two. Marriage and household among peasants and clergy : social and quantitative dimensions -- Parentless children in the soul revisions : a study of methodology and social fact / Andrejs Plakans -- Marriage and the peasant joint family in the era of serfdom / Peter Czap, Jr. -- Caste and emancipation : the changing status of clerical families to the great reforms / Gregory L. Freeze -- Section three. Family relations in folklore -- The family as reflected in Russian folklore / Stephen P. Dunn -- Life of the pre-revolutionary village as reflected in popular lullabies / Antonina Martynova -- Section four. Welfare and medical intervention in peasant birth and child care -- Abandonment and fosterage of unwanted children : the women of the foundling system / David L. Rensel -- Childbirth and culture : midwifery in the nineteenth-century Russian countryside / Samuel C. Ramer-- Child care : medical reform in a traditionalist culture / Nancy M. Frieden -- Section five. Family correlates of the urban workforce -- Family relations and the rural-urban nexus : patterns on the hinterland of Moscow, 1880-1900 / Robert Eugene Johnson -- Urban families, working-class youth groups, and the 1917 Revolution in Moscow / Diane Koenker -- Annotated bibliography / Harold M. Leich and June Pachuta. Subjects; Families Russia History ; Congresses. Social classes Russia History ; Congresses. Social Class history.
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