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This book provides a thorough survey and analysis of the emergence and functions of written culture in Rus (covering roughly the modern East Slav lands of European Russia, Ukraine and Belarus). Part I introduces the full range of types of writing: the scripts and languages, the materials, the social and physical contexts, ranging from builders' scratches on bricks through to luxurious parchment manuscripts. Part II presents a series of thematic studies of the 'socio-cultural dynamics' of writing, in order to reveal and explain distinctive features in the Rus assimilation of the technology. The comparative approach means that the book may also serve as a case-study for those with a broader interest either in medieval uses of writing or in the social and cultural history of information technologies. Overall, the impressive scholarship and idiosyncratic wit of this volume commend it to students and specialists in Russian history and literature alike. Awarded the Alec Nove Prize, given by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies for the best book of 2002 in Russian, Soviet or Post-Soviet studies.
Communication and culture --- Written communication --- Communication écrite --- Communication et culture --- Kievan Rus --- Russie kiévienne --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- 091 <47> --- 091 <47> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie --- Written communication - Kievan Rus. --- Communication and culture - Kievan Rus. --- Culture and communication --- Culture --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Empire brings together a range of essays to address this complex question. It examines communication networks such as the postal service and the circulation of news, as well as the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informed the government about its people. It also considers the inscription of space from the point of view of mapping and the changing public ‘graphosphere’ of signs and monuments. More than a series of institutional histories, this book is concerned with the way Russia discovered itself, envisioned itself and represented itself to its people. Innovative and scholarly, this collection breaks new ground in its approach to communication and information as a fi eld of study in Russia. More broadly, it is an accessible contribution to pre-modern information studies, taking as its basis a country whose history often serves to challenge habitual Western models of development. It is important reading not only for specialists in Russian Studies, but also for students and anyone interested in the history of information and communications.
Communication --- Written communication --- Press --- Communication in politics --- Postal service --- Communication. --- Communication in politics. --- Manners and customs. --- Politics and government. --- Postal service. --- Press. --- Written communication. --- History. --- Russia --- Russia. --- Social life and customs --- Political communication --- Political science --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Media, News --- Media, The --- News media --- Journalism --- Publicity --- Newspapers --- Periodicals --- Mail --- Mail service --- Post-office --- Carriers --- Communication and traffic --- Transportation --- Ceremonies --- Customs, Social --- Folkways --- Social customs --- Traditions --- Usages --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Etiquette --- Rites and ceremonies --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- 1917 --- Rosja --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Ṛusastan --- Russian Empire --- Russie --- Russland --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) --- postal service --- information --- maps and atlases --- communication --- news circulation --- signs and monuments --- history of communication
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Scholars of Russian culture have always paid close attention to texts and their authors, but they have often forgotten about the readers. 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 fruit of thirty-one specialists’ research, Reading Russia represents the first attempt to systematically depict the evolution of reading in Russia from the eighteenth century to the present day. The first volume of Reading Russia describes the slow evolution of reading between the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. During the reign of Peter the Great, the changes initially concerned a limited number of readers from court circles, the ecclesiastical world, the higher aristocracy and the Academy of Sciences, that considered reading as a potent way of regulating the conduct of the people. It was only under the modernisation programme inaugurated by Catherine the Great that transformations began to gain pace: the birth of private publishers and the widening currency of translations soon led to the formation of an initial limited public of readers from the nobility, characterised by an increasing responsiveness to European models and by its gradual emancipation from the cultural practices typical of the ecclesiastical world and of the court.
History --- Literature --- Literature Slavic --- Cultura russa --- i russi ei loro testi preferiti --- evoluzione della lettura in Russia --- Pietro il Grande --- Caterina la Grande --- Russian culture --- Russians and their favorite texts --- evolution of reading in Russia --- Peter the Great --- Catherine the Great
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