Lovell The Russian Reading Revolution

Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras
2000
ISBN: 978-0-230-59645-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 215 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Studies in Russia and East Europe

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lovell, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations Introduction: Russia's Reading Myth The Creation of the Soviet Reader The Arrival of the New Reader: The Post-Stalin Period Reading Revitalized? The Perestroika Project and its Aftermath The Periodical Press: Background and Case Studies Reading in Post-Soviet Russia Conclusion Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Lovell is Junior Research Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford.