RUSSIAN PROVINCIAL TOWNSPEOPLE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY: TRADITIONAL PRACTICES AND MODERNIZATION TRENDS |
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| 2016 |
| scientific article | 94 | ||
| 29-35 |
| The present article examines social and cultural characteristics of lower middle class representatives (townspeople) in Russian provincial towns at the turn of the 20th century. As a result of the analysis, the authors identify certain modernizing potential in Russian "middle class". However, the prevailing traditional moral norms and economic relations have prevented it from playing a stabilizing role during social upheavals at the beginning of the 20th century. |
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