Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-268) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the subalterns speak out: Gerasim and the infamous -- Writing degree zero, and beyond: reading social practices between the lines -- The middle Volga city as the middle ground: urban plebeian society -- The patriarchal metropolis: trespassing social barriers in late imperial Vilna -- "We only kill each other": the anthropology of deadly violence and contested intergroup boundaries -- The transformative social experience of illegality -- Epilogue: Gerasim in power: a plebeian modernity.
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