Obshchestvennost’ and Civic Agency in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia

Yasuhiro Matsui is Professor at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan. He previously lectured in political science and international relations at the Faculty of Law, Kagawa University in Japan. His past research has been on the Communist Youth League (Komsomol) in the 1920s and the proto-public sphere under Stalin.

1. Russian Critics and Obshchestvennost', 1840-1890: The Case of Vladimir Stasov; Yukiko Tatsumi 2. From Workers' Milieu to the Public Arena: Workers' Sociability and Obshchestvennost' before 1906; Yoshifuru Tsuchiya 3. The Notions of Obshchestvennost' during the First World War; Yoshiro Ikeda 4. Nikolai Bukharin and the Rabsel'kor Movement: Sovetskaia Obshchestvennost' under the 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat'; Zenji Asaoka 5. Obshchestvennost' at Residence: Community Activities in 1930s Moscow; Yasuhiro Matsui 6. What was Obshchestvennost' in the Time of Stalin? The Case of the Post-war Soviet Medical Profession; Mie Nakachi 7. Obshchestvennost' in the Struggle against Crimes: The Case of People's Vigilante Brigades in the Late 1950s and 1960s; Kiyohiro Matsudo 8. Public and Private Matters in Comrades' Courts under Khrushchev; Kazuko Kawamoto 9. Obshchestvennost' Across Borders: Soviet Dissidents as a Hub of Transnational Agency; Yasuhiro Matsui