To browse Academia. Scholars of Russian culture have always paid close attention to texts and their authors, but they have often forgotten about the readers. The third volume of Reading Russia considers more recent and rapid changes to reading, and focuses on two profoundly transformative moments: the Bolshevik Revolution of , and the digital revolution of the s.
This volume investigates how the political transformations of the early twentieth century and the technological ones from the turn of the twenty-first impacted the tastes, habits, and reading practices of the Russian public.
It closely Reading Russia. A History of Reading in Modern Russia, These volumes illuminate encounters between the Russians and their favorite texts, a centuries-long and continent-spanning "love story" that shaped the way people think, feel, and communicate. The third volume of "Reading Russia" considers more recent and rapid changes to reading, and focuses on two profoundly transformative moments: the Bolshevik Revolution of , and the digital revolution of the s.
The second volume of Reading Russia considers the evolution of reading during the long nineteenth century , particularly in relation to the emergence of new narrative and current affairs publications: novels, on the one hand, and daily newspapers, weekly magazines and thick journals, on the other.
The volume examines how economic and social transformations, technological progress and the development of the publishing industry taking place In the notes the following will be used: d.
