Description:
In fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary Russia, a group of self-educated workers produced a large body of poetry and prose in which they attempted to comprehend their rapidly changing world. Witnesses to wars and revolution, these men and women...
Brief description: Mark D. Steinberg is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author of several books, including Moral Communities: The Culture of Class Relations in the Russian Printing Industry, 1867-1907 and Voices of Revolution, 1917, and the coauthor of A History of Russia, 7th edition.
Review Quotes:
Deftly interweaving literary analysis with social history, Steinberg suggests that workers understood their position in the modern city through a moral language about human rights and dignity; they understood their destiny through a quasi-Christian vision of revolutionary salvation, as articulated by a wide range of proletarian writers and poets.
--Orlando Figes, Birkbeck College, University of London "Slavic Review"