Ocherki gorodskogo byta dorevoliutsionnogo Povolzh'ia. By A. N. Zorin, N. V. Zorin, A. P. Kaplunovskii, E. B. Kaplunovskaia, E. V. Kliushnina, and L. Häfner. Ulianovsk: Izdatel'stvo “Srednevolzhskii nauchnyi tsentr”, 2000. 692 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Photographs. Tables. Maps. Paper.

Abstract

This collective work is devoted to town life in "Kazan' Povolzh'ie," a geographic area that now makes up the republics of Tatarstan, Chuvashiia, and Mari-El. It charts new territory in a much broader sense than a mere geographic one, however. Historical studies devoted to towns have been narrowly statistical, and ethnographers have largely ignored the subject. By employing sources used by both historians and ethnographers, A.