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Xerox University Microfilms 300 North Zeeb Road Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 Mcgreevy, Andrew Martin, 1939- A INFORMATION TO USERS This material was produced from a microfilm copy of the original document. While the most advanced technological means to photograph and reproduce this document have been used, the quality is heavily dependent upon the quality of the original submitted. The following explanation of techniques is provided to help you understand markings or patterns which may appear on this reproduction. 1. The sign or "target" for pages apparently lacking from the document photographed is "Missing Page(s)". If it was possible to obtain the missing page(s) or section, they are spliced into the film along with adjacent pages. This may have necessitated cutting thru an image and duplicating adjacent pages to insure you complete continuity. 2. 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Silver prints of "photographs" may be ordered at additional charge by writing the Order Department, giving the catalog number, title, author and specific pages you wish reproduced. 5. PLEASE NOTE: Some pages may have indistinct print. Filmed as received. Xerox University Microfilms 300 North Zeeb Road Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 McGREEVY, Andrew Martin, 1939- A. P. SHCHAPOV'S SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS. OF 1 THE NATURE OF RUSSIAN SOCIETY. The Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1973 If( History, m o d e m f University Microfilms, A XEROX Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan ;i| i 0 1974 ANDREW MARTIN MCGREEVY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED T O T S nTSSFRTATTDN HAS FFFN MTfRnFTT.MFn F.YACTT.Y AS RF.CF.TVFT). A. P. SHCHAPOV* S SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF THE NATURE OF RUSSIAN SOCIETY DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University By Andrew Martin McGreevy, B.A. , M.A. ***** The Ohio State University 1973 Approved by Department of History PREFACE This dissertation is a descriptive and analyti­ cal study of the post-1863 works of the Russian historian Afanasii Prokofevich Shchapov (1831-1876). Shchapov was always preoccupied with the narod (people), but in 1863 he departed from his earlier concern with the Russian Orthodox schism (raskol) and regionalism (oblastnost) to search for a scientific analysis of the nature of Russian society. Of all his works, the post-1863 studies are the least well-known. While there has been much classifying and labeling of these works, there has not been enough understanding of the full complexity of his theses. Thus, the purpose of the present study is to contribute to an understanding of Shchapov by pro­ viding a detailed description and analysis of his basic ideas after 1863. Although biographical material is included in the INTRODUCTION Shchapov's entire life and works are definitely not the central concerns of this study. The corpus of Shchapov's post-1863 works is not, regrettably, complete, since a number of his works have been lost. Enough remains, however, to form a consistent whole, capable of analysis and evaluation. The post-1863 works discussed below are not approached in a strict chronological order, and certain works, more crucial than others, have been emphasized to reveal important theses. Readers are warned that Shchapov's ideas were extremely complex and that Russians find his style of writing to be tiazholyi (ponderous or turbid). However, there is more of value and interest in the later works than is commonly realized— they are worth a struggle with the tiazholyi style. It is hoped that through this study and the continuing interest in Shchapov, symbolized by the recent republication of his works in England by Gregg International Publishers Ltd., a better understanding of the importance and the significance of his ideas will emerge. I wish to express my gratitude to my adviser Professor Michael W. Curran for the long-term loan of his personal set of The Works of A. £. Shchapov (Sochineniia A. £. Shchapova) and for his advice and encouragement during several years of graduate work and dissertation research at The Ohio State University, including an all too brief visit to the U. S. S. R. My thanks also to Professor Charles Morley for much valuable advice and to the History Department and Administration of The Ohio State University for their assistance in obtaining a N. D. E. A. Fellowship. Le Moyne College, where I presently teach Russian history, has been very considerate while I have com­ pleted this manuscript. Scholars are especially in debt to librarians, and I wish to thank the staffs of the university libraries at Ohio State, Helsinki, Harvard, Cornell, and Syracuse in addition to the librarians of the Lenin Library, the British Museum, the Library of Congress, and Le Moyne College for research assistance. I alone am responsible for all errors and short­ comings within this dissertation. Syracuse, New York Andrew M. McGreevy April, 1973 VITA February 17, 1939.......... Born - Boston, Massachusetts 1966 ...................... B.A., The Ohio State University 1966-1970.................. Teaching Assistant, Dept. of History, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1967 ...................... M.A., The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 1971 ...................... Instructor, Dept, of History, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York FIELDS OF STUDY Major Field: Russian History and the Soviet Union Chinese History. Professor Hao Chang Japanese History. Professor Richard Minear East Central European History. Professor Carole Rogel v TABLE OP CONTENTS Page PREFACE......................................... ii VITA ........................................... v INTRODUCTION .................................. 1 PART I. A. P. SHCHAPOV ON INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION Chapter I. THE WORKINGS OF THE M I N D .......... 24 II. INTELLECTUAL AND EDUCATIONAL REFORM. 56 PART II. A. P. SHCHAPOV ON THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN RUSSIA III. RUSSIAN WOMEN FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.......... 117 PART III. A. P. SHCHAPOV ON SIBERIA IV. THE POPULATION SERIES............. 199 V. SIBERIAN STUDIES PUBLISHED IN THE 1870's........................ 221 PART IV. CONCLUDING INTERPRETATION VI. CONCLUSIONS............. 253 BIBLIOGRAPHY................................... 284 vi INTRODUCTION A. P. SHCHAPOV: SCHOLAR, VOICE OF "THE PEOPLE;" POLITICAL EXILE Shchapov's life and entire career are not the central topics of this study, but a brief biographical sketch will serve to place the period of interest, 1863-1876, in perspective.^ Basically, Shchapov, from humble origins in Siberia, was advancing in a promising career as a historian, but in the early 1860's his ideas Information on Shchapov can be found in: N. Ia. Aristov, Afanasii Prokofevich Shchapov (St. Petersburg, 1883); V. I. Astakhov, Kurs lektsii po russkoi istoriografii (Course of Lectures on Russian Historiography) (Kharkov, 1965); Biograficheskii slovar: professorov_i prepodayatelei Imperatorskago Kazanskago universiteta (1804-1904) (Biographical Dictionary: Professors and Lecturers of the Imperial University of Kazan) (Kazan, 1904); P. Kabanov, Obshchestvenno- politicheskie i^ istoricheskie vzgliady A. £. Shchapova. (The Social-political and Historical Views of A. P.. Shchapov) (Moscow, 1954); G. A. Luchinsky, "Afanasii Prokofevich Shchapov," Sochineniia A. y. Shchapova ("Afanasii Prokofevich Shchapov" in The Works of A. P. Shchapov) (St. Petersburg, 1906-1908), III; M. V. Nauchitel, Zhizn i. deiatelnost Afanasiia Prokofevicha Shchapova (The Life and Activities of Afanasii Prokofevich Shchapov) (Irkutsk, 1958); Ocherki istorii istoricheskoi nauki v CCCP (Essays on the History of Historical Science in the USSR) (Moscow, 1955-1966), II; Franco Venturi, Roots of Revolution, translated by F. Haskell (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1966). and acquaintances were judged to be dangerous by the Tsar's administration. For the last twelve years of his life Shchapov was exiled, though not imprisoned, in his Siberian homeland. Shchapov left a rich legacy to Russian history and intellectual life. For instance, the American scholars Michael Cherniavsky and J. H. Billington respectively described Shchapov as the leader of a new interpretation of the Russian Orthodox schism (raskol) and as one of the "most influential" of the Populist 2 journalists in the 1870's. Furthermore, the great Russian author Maxim Gorky (1869-1936) advised fledgling writers to read Shchapov, while the Soviet historian M. N. Pokrovsky (1868-1932) saw in Shchapov's achieve- 3 ments the "most interesting phenomenon" of an era. The descendant of a Russian peasant father and a Buriat (Siberian native) mother, Afanasii prokofevich Shchapov was born in the province of Irkutsk in 1831. 2 Michael Cherniavsky, "The Old Believers and the New Religion," Slavic Review, XXV, No. 2 (March, 1966); J. H. Billington, The Icon and the Axe (New York: Vintage Books, 1970), p. 391. 3 Gorky cited in Kabanov, p. 60; Pokrovsky cited in Astakhov, p. 376. The Shchapovs were peasants, but due to the father's position as a sexton (diachok) in the Russian Orthodox Church Afanasii, and his brothers, had access to the ecclesiastical educational system in Siberia. Thus, in 1838 Shchapov, the future historian, entered an ele­ mentary school located in the city of Irkutsk. An intelligent youth, Shchapov did well in his studies; by the early 1850's he had progressed through a Seminary and was admitted into the Ecclesiastical Academy at Kazan, an important center of studies for Siberian churchmen.
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