The 'Body Politic': Russian Funerals and the Politics of Representation, 1841-1921
Trice, Thomas Reed
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Description
Title
The 'Body Politic': Russian Funerals and the Politics of Representation, 1841-1921
Author(s)
Trice, Thomas Reed
Issue Date
1998
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Koenker, Diane P.
Department of Study
History
Discipline
History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Anthropology, Cultural
Language
eng
Abstract
The chronological and geographical focus of this dissertation addresses the interplay between specific burial-related reforms and broader changes in the material conditions of everyday life in Russia. I argue that a major shift occurred in official attitudes towards funerals with Nicholas I's 1841 decree regulating funeral costs and practices in the two capitals, yet I assert that the fear of social and political instability that inspired the reactionary tsar's actions had no substantial basis in fact until the 1860s. It was then, during the era of the Great Reforms, that the funeral first became a particularly resonant form of political self-assertion, and continued as such until the consolidation of Bolshevik power in 1921. This dissertation focuses on Petersburg, where social transformation was at its most traumatic during the modern era.
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