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Koenker, Diane P. Trice, Thomas Reed 2015-09-25T22:24:24Z 2015-09-25T22:24:24Z 10000-01-01 1998 1998 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. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T22:24:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9912400.pdf: 21971204 bytes, checksum: a65ac4a12377a28f120707ea40beb836 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1998 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 86027 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 386 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/84746 (MiAaPQ)AAI9912400 eng Anthropology, Cultural The 'Body Politic': Russian Funerals and the Politics of Representation, 1841-1921 text History History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.