DOI 10.51255/2311–603X_2025_2_250

T. N. Zhukovskaya, K. S. Kazakova. Students, Corporants, Loyal Subjects. Review on Monograph:
Friedman R. Masculinity, Autocracy, and the Russian University, 1804–1863 / Transl. from English
by N. Protsenko. Boston / St. Petersburg: Academic Studies Press / Bibliorossika, 2024. 264 p. Series “Modern Western Russian Studies” // Petersburg Historical Journal, no. 2, 2025, pp. 250–258

Abstract:

The book under review is a study of the relationship between the student community and the
authorities, both university and state, as well as the characteristics of the legal and corporate organisation of students at the pre-reform university. The author examines the social relations of student youth, the formation of official and alternative models of student behaviour, which at that time was an exclusively male community. The author argues that there was a significant gap between the normative gender model of the loyal subject “servant of the fatherland and the Tsar” and the ideal of the educated, emancipated young man developed by the university corporation. The article critically evaluates the ideals of masculinity reconstructed by the author for this socio-cultural group.

Key words: universities in Russia, students, gender, academic corporation, social history of universities, modern Western Russian studies.

Author:

Zhukovskaya, Tatyana Nikolaevna — PhD in History, Senior Researcher at the St. Petersburg
Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia).
E-mail: tzhukovskaya@yandex.ru
ORCID: 0000-0001-9776-0038

Author:

Kazakova, Ksenia Sergeevna — PhD in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Humanitarian Problems of the Barents region of the Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Apatity, Russia).
E-mail: ksenia-kuznec@yandex.ru
ORCID: 0000-0002-5071-4947

References:

Lotman, Yu. M. Dekabrist v povsednevnoi zhizni: (Bytovoe povedenie kak istoriko-psikhologicheskaya kategoriya [The Decembrist in Everyday Life: (Everyday Behavior as a Historical and Psychological Category). In Russ.]. In Lotman, Yu. M. Selected Articles: In 3 vols. Vol. 1. Tallinn, Aleksandra, 1992. P. 296–336.

Orlovsky, D. Predely reform. Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del Rossiiskoi imperii v 1802–1881 godakh. [The Limits of Reform. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire in 1802–1881. In Russ.]. Boston; St. Petersburg, 2022. 429 p.

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