Synopses & Reviews
"As the first study in any language of the crucial social 'link' in rural Russia between broader society (obshchestvo) and the people (narod), Seregny's book will be read with great interest by all students or the late imperial period, Soviet and Western." --William G. Rosenberg
"This book is a timely and worthy addition to the... body of work on the 'democratic intelligentsia' of 'third element' in prerevolutionary Russia." --The Russian Review
"... compelling and moving." --History Today
"... this substantial volume provides detailed evidence of the complexities and ambiguities inherent in the day-to-day zamstvo-teacher-peasant relationship in the period preceding the 1905 Revolution." --The Slavonic Review
"... carefully researched and well documented... " --The Journal of Peasant Studies
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Teachers and the Politics of Education in Russia
The Teachers' Question: Profile, Status, and Crisis
The Zemstvos and the Politics of Public Education
3. Cultural Impoverishment and the Impulse to Associate
Teachers' Gatherings before the 1890s: The Imperatives of Enlightenment and Order
Rising Expectations: Teachers' Courses, 1895-1903
Third Element Influence and Security: Teachers' Congresses before 1905
4. Organization and Program: The Emergence of a Teachers' Movement
From Nizhnii-Novgorod to Kursk: A Movement Emerges
The Moscow Congress: Organization and Issues
5. The Turn to Activism: Teachers and Politics on the Eve of 1905
A Link with the Peasantry: Teachers and Revolutionaries
A Tenuous Alliance: Zemstvos, Teachers, and the School Commission Experiment
6. The Teachers' Movement and Revolutionary Politics in 1905
A Teachers' Union: Professional or Political?
"Spring Thunder" in the Teachers' Societies
The First Congress of the All-Russian Teachers' Union and Official Response
7. Teachers in the Countryside, February-October 1905
Anti-Intelligentsia Agitation in Early 1905 and the Problem of a Rural "Black Hundred" Movement
Teachers and Rural Politics in Spring and Summer 1905
Teacher and Zemstvo before October: Cooperation and Conflict
The Peasant Unions and the Teachers' Movement
8. October and Its Aftermath: Rural Teachers and Peasant Revolution
Charting a Course: The Moscow Regional Teachers' Congresses
Teachers, Peasant Unions, and Rural Revolution
With The Narod: The Second Teachers' Union Congress
9. The Reaction and Its Consequences, 1906-1914
Notes
Bibliography
Index