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Barbara Alpern Engel - Breaking the Ties That Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia - 9780801449512 - V9780801449512
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Breaking the Ties That Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia

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Description for Breaking the Ties That Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 242 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Russia's Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia's social, economic, and cultural landscape. Barbara Alpern Engel explores the personal, cultural, and political consequences of these dramatic changes, focusing on their impact on intimate life and expectations and the resulting challenges to the traditional, patriarchal family order, the cornerstone of Russia's authoritarian political and religious regime. The widely perceived marriage crisis had far-reaching legal, institutional, and political ramifications. In Breaking the Ties That Bound, Engel draws on exceptionally rich ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
561g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801449512
SKU
V9780801449512
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About Barbara Alpern Engel
Barbara Alpern Engel is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Women in Russia: 1700-2000, Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914, and Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-Century Russia and coeditor of A Revolution of Their Own: Russian Women Remember Their Lives ... Read more

Reviews for Breaking the Ties That Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia
Mining the rich archive of the Imperial Chancellery for the Receipt of Petitions, Barbara Alpern Engel offers a vibrant account of the intersection of law and marital life in late Imperial Russia. In a context of rigid laws and changing attitudes toward marital, family, and personal life, conservative state officials felt compelled to respond to petitions from distressed wives by ... Read more

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