Plebeian Modernity

Deciphers typical social practices as a hidden language of communication in urban plebeian society

Covering the interrevolutionary decade of 1906-16 in imperial Russia, this book tells the story of the "silent majority" of urban inhabitants in four major cities: Vilna (today Vilnius, Lithuania), Odessa (in today''s Ukraine), Kazan, and Nizhny Novgorod. Representatives of underprivileged social grou...