| The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Lovell, S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312226012 ISBN-13: 9780312226015 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2000 Annotation: Of all Soviet cultural myths, none was more resilient than the belief that the USSR had the world's greatest readers. This book explains how the "Russian reading myth" took hold in the 1920s and 1930s, how it was supported by a monopolistic and homogenizing system of book production and distribution, and how it was challenged in the post-Stalin era: first, by the latent expansion and differentiation of the reading public, and then, more dramatically, by the economic and cultural changes of the 1990s. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 028.909 |
| LCCN: 99048631 |
| Series: Studies in Russian and East European History |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.73" W x 8.83" (0.99 lbs) 215 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Of all of Soviet cultural myths, none was more resilient than the belief that the USSR had the world's greatest readers. This book explains how the 'Russian reading myth' took hold in the 1920s and 1930s, how it was supported by a monopolistic and homogenizing system of book production and distribution, and how it was challenged in the post-Stalin era; first, by the latent expansion and differentiation of the reading public, and then, more dramatically, by the economic and cultural changes of the 1990s. |