| Titre | Statisticiens des zemstva [Formation d'une nouvelle profession intellectuelle en Russie dans la période prérévolutionnaire (1880-1917) : Le cas de Saratov] | |
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| Auteur | Martine Mespoulet | |
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Revue | Cahiers du monde russe |
| Numéro | volume 40, no 4, octobre-décembre 1999 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 573-624 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Martine Mespoulet. Zemstvo statisticians: The making of a new intellectual profession in Russia in the prerevolutionary era (1880-1917). The case of Saratov. Zemstvo professionals were one of the different groups of intellectual professions that appeared in Russia in the prerevolutionary period. Their situation raises specific questions as to how they integrated the local life of their region and what kind of professional, social and political representations they had. These questions are all the more justified in the case of former students from Moscow or Saint exiles. This essay tries to give a partial answer to these questions on the basis of the study of one group, that of statisticians, a great number of which came precisely from these two cities. The study of one local example, Saratov zemstvo statisticians, gives one the opportunity to analyze how these men concretely integrated local public life. This integration process gives the reader specific insights on how they viewed themselves as actors in local life: it reveals a double identity, made of a real local professional and public integration and of an allegiance to a national professional and scientific community. Furthermore, this essay illuminates the making of statistical knowledge in Russia in the prerevolutionary era. It shows in particular that survey subjects and the methodology applied in zemstvo statistical offices were elaborated in a to-and-from movement between theoretical thinking developed in national professional and scientific meetings and field experiments in the regions. From this point of view, zemstvo statistics were much more than regional statistics focusing only on local topics and surveys. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_1252-6576_1999_num_40_4_1020 |
