The Space of the Book: Print Culture in the Russian Social Imagination

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Introduction: The Space of the Book: Print Culture in Russia’s Social Imagination / by Miranda Remnek (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

1. Russian Eighteenth-Century Popular Enlightenment Literature on Commerce / by Lina Bernstein (Franklin & Marshall College)
2. Dinner at Smirdan’s: Forces in Russian Print Culture in the Early Reign of Nicholas I / by George Gutsche (University of Arizona)
3. The Proliferation of Elite Readerships and Circle Poetics in Pushkin and Baratynskii (1820s-1830s) / by Joseph Peschio (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee) and Igor Pil’shchikov (Moscow State University)
4. The Archaeology of “Backwardness” in Russia: Assessing the Adequacy of Libraries for Rural Audiences in Late Imperial Russia / by Ben Eklof (Indiana University)
5. The Reading Culture of Russian Workers in the Early Twentieth Century (Evidence from Public Library Records) / by Leonid Borodkin (Moscow State University) and Evgeny Chugunov (Kostroma Department for Culture and Tourism)
6. Reading Between the (Confessional) Lines: The Intersection of Old Believer Manuscript Books and Images with Print Cultures of Late Imperial Russia / by Kevin M. Kain (University of Wisconsin – Green Bay)
7. The Moral Self in Russia’s Literary and Visual Cultures: The Late Imperial Era and Beyond / by Jeffrey P. Brooks (Johns Hopkins University)
8. Books and Their Readers in Twentieth-Century Russia / by Stephen Lovell (King’s College, London)
9. Adapting Paratextual Theory to the Soviet Context: Publishing Practices and the Readers of Il’f and Petrov’s Ostap Bender Novels / by Anne O. Fisher
10. Closing and Opening and Closing: Reflections on the Russian Media / by Marianna Tax Choldin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Appendix: The Internet on the State of Mass Media in Russia / by Svetlana Stulova

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