Becoming Metropolitan End Years & Beyond In Petrograd

In Petrograd

Drawing on firsthand accounts and detailed archival research

and its great ships kept the German High Sea fleet at bay

while in the countryside sullen anxiety among hard-pressed farmers is rapidly replacing patriotism

Becoming Metropolitan End Years & Beyond In PetrogradDescription by Nathaniel D. Wood Hardcover The Age of Great Cities erupted in East Central Europe in the last quarter of the 19th century as migrants poured into imperial and regional capitals. For citizens of places like Cracow, discovering and enacting metropolitan identities reinforced their break from a provincial past while affirming their belonging to modern European civilization. Strolling the city streets, sipping coffee in cafes, riding the