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The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras

The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras

Lovell, S.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe

Literary CriticismAnthropologyRussian History

ISBN10: 0312226012
ISBN13: 9780312226015
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 1 2000
Pages: 215
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.73 Depth: 8.83
Language: English
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.

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