RAMPAGING SOLDATKI, COWERING POLICE, BAZAAR RIOTS AND MORAL ECONOMY: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE GREAT WAR IN KHARKIV PROVINCE

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M A R K B A K E R (Cambridge, MA, USA) RAMPAGING SOLDATKI, COWERING POLICE, BAZAAR RIOTS AND MORAL ECONOMY: THE SOCIAL IMPACT O F THE GREAT WAR IN KHARKIV PROVINCE This article is an attempt to explore how the Great War affected life on the home front in one Ukcainian province o f the Russian empire. Recent scholar- ship has stressed that the war provoked a major turn towards "ethnic politics" in tsarist authorities' understanding and treatment o f the populations they governed; military and civil authorities labeled, divided up, and acted on the empire's inhabitants as members