Russia on the Eve of Modernity Popular Religion and Traditional Culture under the Last Tsars HERETZ, Leonid (Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts)

Pioneering history of the ordinary Russians who continued to live in a pre-modern, non-Western culture in late Imperial Russia. Leonid Heretz offers an overview of traditional Russian understandings of the world, illuminating key themes ranging from peasant monarchism to apocalyptic responses to intrusions from the modern world.