The Russian reading revolution: print culture in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras

"In Soviet Russia the emergence of a mass reading public was, by the standards of this historical phenomenon, extremely sudden, and it coincided with the seizure of power by an elite which possessed an extreme missionary vision of culture. By the beginning of the 1930s these two mutually reinfo...

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Main Author: Lovell, Stephen 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [u.a.] Macmillan [u.a.] 2000
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Studies in Russia and East Europe
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Online Access:DE-29
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Summary:"In Soviet Russia the emergence of a mass reading public was, by the standards of this historical phenomenon, extremely sudden, and it coincided with the seizure of power by an elite which possessed an extreme missionary vision of culture. By the beginning of the 1930s these two mutually reinforcing circumstances had hastened into being a 'Russian reading myth': the publicly expressed conviction that the Soviet reading public was uniquely active, united and homogenous." "This book explains how the reading myth took hold in the early Soviet period, how it was supported by a monopolistic and homogenizing system of book production and distribution, and how it was eventually 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:033377826X
0312226012

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