Entertaining tsarist Russia : tales, songs, plays, movies, jokes, ads, and images from Russian urban life, 1779-1917 /
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| Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1998. |
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| Description: | xxvii, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies. |
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| Format: | CD Audio Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3405191 |
| Summary: | This anthology introduces readers to Tsarist Russia's emerging popular and commercial urban culture and the individuals and groups that produced and consumed it. The selections translated here illustrate in colorful detail how the experiences and the composition of Russian society and culture evolved from the late eighteenth century through the 1917 revolution, in response to economic, technological, and political changes. Fortunetelling and etiquette manuals, thieves' tales, children's literature, popular songs, war stories, women's novels, satires of life in America, and vaudeville skits are just a few of the genres represented. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvii, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0253334071 9780253334077 0253211956 9780253211958 0253334098 9780253334091 |
