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Books and reading --- Publishers and publishing --- Livres et lecture --- Editeurs et édition --- Editeurs et édition --- Book publishing --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Publishing --- Appraisal --- Evaluation

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The concept of generation is ubiquitous in common parlance and public discourse: it is used to explain family relationships, consumer preferences, political change, and much else besides. But how can generation be used by historians? Do generations really exist, or are they constructed and manipulated by social and cultural elites? In pursuit of answers to these questions, this book ranges from World War I to the baby boomers and from Spain to the Soviet Union.

Generations --- Générations --- History --- Histoire --- Conflict of generations --- Intergenerational relations --- Geschiedenis van opvoeding en onderwijs --- handboeken en inleidingen --- Europe --- handboeken en inleidingen. --- Générations --- Intergenerational relationships --- Relations, Intergenerational --- Relationships, Intergenerational --- Interpersonal relations --- Age groups --- Gap, Generation --- Generation gap --- Generational conflict --- Intergenerational conflict --- Social conflict

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This introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture at the time. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism, political violence, poverty, and ideology; and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience.

Communism --- History. --- Soviet Union --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government --- History

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Russia in the late nineteenth century may have been an autocracy, but it was far from silent. In the 1860s, new venues for public speech sprang up: local and municipal assemblies, the courtroom, and universities and learned societies. Theatre became more lively and vernacular, while the Orthodox Church exhorted its priests to become better preachers. Although the tsarist government attempted to restrain Russia's emerging orators, the empire was entering an era of vigorous modern politics. All the while, the spoken word was amplified by the written: the new institutions of the 1860s brought with them the adoption of stenography. Russian political culture reached a new peak of intensity with the 1905 revolution and the creation of a parliament, the State Duma, whose debates were printed in the major newspapers. Sometimes considered a failure as a legislative body, the Duma was a formidable school of modern political rhetoric. It was followed by the cacophonous freedom of 1917, when Aleksandr Kerensky, dubbed Russia's'persuader-in-chief', emerged as Russia's leading orator only to see his charisma wane. The Bolsheviks could boast charismatic orators of their own, but after the October Revolution they also turned public speaking into a core ritual of Soviet'democracy'. The Party's own gatherings remained vigorous (if also sometimes vicious) throughout the 1920s; and here again, the stenographer was in attendance to disseminate proceedings to a public of newspaper readers or Party functionaries. How Russia Learned to Talk offers an entirely new perspective on Russian political culture, showing that the era from Alexander II's Great Reforms to early Stalinism can usefully be seen as a single'stenographic age'. All Russia's rulers, whether tsars or Bolsheviks, were grappling with the challenges and opportunities of mass politics and modern communications. In the process, they gave a new lease of life to the age-old rhetorical technique of oratory.

Public speaking --- Shorthand --- History --- Russia --- Politics and government --- Social life and customs

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World War, 1939-1945 --- Influence. --- Soviet Union --- Russia (Federation) --- History --- Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Influence --- URSS --- Russie --- 1939-1945 --- 1925-1953 --- 1953-1985 --- 1985-1991 --- 1991-.... --- Histoire