Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia - Paperback
by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia (Author), David L. Ransel (Editor), David L. Ransel (Translator)
" . . . a readable and enlightening account of peasant life." -Academic Library Book Review "The picture of peasant life is presented in all its harshness and crudity." -Canadian Slavonic Papers " . . . Semenova's account provides a vivid picture of peasant life at the turn of the century." -Irish Slavonic Studies " . . . a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution. . . . The translation is superb." -Steven Hoch A unique firsthand portrait of peasant family life as recorded by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, an ethnographer and painter who spent four years at the turn of the twentieth century observing the life and customs of villagers in a central Russian province.
DAVID L. RANSEL is Professor of History at Indiana University and editor of the American Historical Review. He is author of Mothers of Misery: Child Abandonment in Russia and editor of The Family in Imperial Russia: New Lines of Historical Research.
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