• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Russian Ethnographers in the Service of Empire, 1856-1862
  • Beteiligte: Clay, Catherine B.
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1995
  • Erschienen in: Slavic Review
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.2307/2501119
  • ISSN: 0037-6779; 2325-7784
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>Several young Russian and Ukrainian writers responded to the era of Great Reforms by taking up a new enterprise: literary ethnography. Their ethnographic expeditions and reports of 1856 to 1862 manifested new political, cultural and social scientific movements within the empire. They not only investigated obstacles to forging a diverse, multinational population into a common empire, they also called the attention of educated Russians and the Russian state to cultural legacies of the countryside. Some were deemed worthy of preservation; others seemed inconsistent with modern ways. They sought a new socio-political path for the public. In these ways they began to link the various peoples in the empire, the imperial state and educated Russia at a time of social and political disclocation.</jats:p>