Description: Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Teachers and the Politics of Education in Russia The Teachers' Question: Profile, Status, and Crisis The Zemstvos and the Politics of Public Education 3. Cultural Impoverishment and the Impulse to Associate Teachers' Gatherings before the 1890s: The Imperatives of Enlightenment and Order Rising Expectations: Teachers' Courses, 1895-1903 Third Element Influence and Security: Teachers' Congresses before 1905 4. Organization and Program: The Emergence of a Teachers' Movement From Nizhnii-Novgorod to Kursk: A Movement Emerges The Moscow Congress: Organization and Issues 5. The Turn to Activism: Teachers and Politics on the Eve of 1905 A Link with the Peasantry: Teachers and Revolutionaries A Tenuous Alliance: Zemstvos, Teachers, and the School Commission Experiment 6. The Teachers' Movement and Revolutionary Politics in 1905 A Teachers' Union: Professional or Political? "Spring Thunder" in the Teachers' Societies The First Congress of the All-Russian Teachers' Union and Official Response 7. Teachers in the Countryside, February-October 1905 Anti-Intelligentsia Agitation in Early 1905 and the Problem of a Rural "Black Hundred" Movement Teachers and Rural Politics in Spring and Summer 1905 Teacher and Zemstvo before October: Cooperation and Conflict The Peasant Unions and the Teachers' Movement 8. October and Its Aftermath: Rural Teachers and Peasant Revolution Charting a Course: The Moscow Regional Teachers' Congresses Teachers, Peasant Unions, and Rural Revolution With The Narod: The Second Teachers' Union Congress 9. The Reaction and Its Consequences, 1906-1914 Notes Bibliography Index

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