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1 online resource (x, 264 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. A Tale of Two Ministries: The Ministry of War, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Reform of the Russian Fire Department, 1855 -- 65 -- 2. Implementation of Reform: Developing Urban Autonomy in the Public Fire Department, 1865 -- 80 -- 3. Disagreement without Opposition: The City, the State, and the Fight for Control of the Municipal Fire Department in Kazan, 1881 -- 86 -- 4. A Conservative Public Sphere: Volunteer Fire Departments, 1880 -- 1914 -- 5. Imperial Russian Society of Firefighters, 1893 -- 1914 -- 6. Visualizing Civil Society: The Photographer and the Firefighter. |
| Summary |
Democracy Burning? Urban Fire Departments and the Limits of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia, 1850--1914 Nigel A. Raab. |
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"Russia gets drunk in the fall, starves in the winter and the spring, and burns in the summer. These are the seasons of our lives." Russian saying --Book Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fire departments -- Russia -- History.
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Fire departments. |
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Russia. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1801-1917 |
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JSTOR-DDA |
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Fire departments Russia History |
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Russia History 1801- 1917 |
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Russia Social conditions 1801- 1917 |
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Russia Politics and government 1801- 1917 |
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Multi-User. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Raab, Nigel A. Democracy burning? Montréal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011 9780773537798 (DLC) 2011420549 (OCoLC)630475078 |
| ISBN |
9780773580695 (electronic book) |
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0773580697 (electronic book) |
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9780773537798 |
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0773537791 |
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