Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power

Published on: 2005-01-01
Page Count: 636 pages
Print Type: BOOK
Categories: History
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Language: en
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ISBN-13: 9780300108897
ISBN-10: 0300108893
Richard Stites explores the dramatic shift in the history of visual and performing arts that took place in the last decades of serfdom in Russia in the 1860s and revisualises the culture of that flamboyant era.

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