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Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia (Author),
David L. Ransel (Editor),
David L. Ransel (Translator)
” . . . a readable and enlightening account of peasant life.” -Academic Library Book Review “The picture of peasant life is presented in all its harshness and crudity.” -Canadian Slavonic Papers ” . . . Semenova’s account provides a vivid picture of peasant life at the turn of the century.” -Irish Slavonic Studies ” . . . a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution. . . . The translation is superb.” -Steven Hoch A unique firsthand portrait of peasant family life as recorded by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, an ethnographer and painter who spent four years at the turn of the twentieth century observing the life and customs of villagers in a central Russian province.
Author Biography
DAVID L. RANSEL is Professor of History at Indiana University and editor of the American Historical Review. He is author of Mothers of Misery: Child Abandonment in Russia and editor of The Family in Imperial Russia: New Lines of Historical Research.
Number of Pages: 208Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.5 x 5.5 INIllustrated: YesPublication Date: May 01, 1993
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