A Study of "Mentalite social" in the latter part of Nineteenth-Century Russia

为了把握1861年农奴解放后俄国社会意识剧烈变化的实质，阐明19世纪后半期俄国社会现象的多样性，而传统的政治社会学和历史经济学的研究却忽视了这一点，我们首先对19世纪后半期俄国的主要期刊进行了深入的调查（包括Sovremennik，Otechestvennye Zapiski和Russkoe Slovo），并试图找出将表征一般社会心态转变的重要细节。随后，我们又从俄罗斯大师的文学作品中观察社会变迁的过程，他们对这一时期的心理和病理进行了深刻的诊断。

To seize the essence of the violent change in the social consciousness after the Emancipation of Serfs in 1861, and to elucidate the diversity of the social phenomena in the latter part of the nineteenth-century Russia, rather neglected by politico-social and historico-economical,traditional researches, we firstly made an intensive investigation on leading periodicals of the period(including Sovremennik,Otechestvennye Zapiski,and Russkoe Slovo)and tried to find out the significant details that would characterize the transmutation of the general social mentality. Subsequently, we observed the process of social change from the angle of literary works of Russian masters, who offered profound diagnoses of psychology and pathology of the period.