New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 — 234 p. — ISBN10: 1349567949; ISBN13: 978-1349567942.
In modernizing Russia, obshchestvennost', an indigenous Russian word, began functioning as a term to illuminate newly emerging active parts of society and their public identities. This volume approaches various phenomena associated with the term throughout the revolution, examining it in the context of the press, public opinion, and activists.
Yasuhiro Motsui: Introduction.
Yukiko Tatsumi: Russian Critics and Obshchestvennost', 1840-1890: The Case of Vladimir Stasov.
Yoshifuru Tsuchiya: From Workers' Milieu to the Public Arena: Workers' Sociability and Obshchestvennost' before 1906.
Yoshiro Ikeda: The Notion of Obshchestvennost' during the First World War.
Zenji Asaoka: Nikolai Bukharin and the Rabsel'kor Movement: Sovetskaia Obshchestvennost' under the 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat'.
Yasuhiro Matsui: Obshchestvennost' in Residence: Community Activities in 1930s Moscow.
Mie Nakachi: What Was Obshchestvennost' in the Time of Stalin? The Case of the Post-war Soviet Medical Profession.
Kiyohiro Matsudo: Obshchestvennost' in the Struggle against Crimes: The Case of People's Vigilante Brigades in the Late 1950s and 1960s.
Kazuko Kawamoto: Public and Private Matters in Comrades' Courts under Khrushchev.
Yasuhiro Matsui: Obshchestvennost' across Borders: Soviet Dissidents as a Hub of Transnational Agency.
Yasuhiro Matsui: Conclusion.