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Imperial saint : the cult of St. Catherine and the dawn of female rule in Russia
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ISBN: 9780875803753 087580375X Year: 2007 Publisher: DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press,


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Publishing, printing, and the origins of intellectual life in Russia, 1700-1800
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ISBN: 069105441X 1306991579 0691611629 1400854946 Year: 1985 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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Gary Marker describes the pursuit of an effective public voice by political, Church, and literary elites in Russia as synonymous with the struggle to control the printed media, showing that Russian publishing and printing evolved in a way that sharply diverged from Western experiences but that proved to be highly significant for Russian society.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Publishing, printing and the origins of intellectual life in Russia, 1700-1800
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Catherine the Great and the search for a usable past
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Year: 1995 Publisher: Amonk Sharpe

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Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of the Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700-1800
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ISBN: 9781400854943 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Reinterpreting Russian history: readings, 860-1860s
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ISBN: 9780195078589 Year: 1994 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Oxford University Press

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The invention of Mikhail Lomonosov : a Russian national myth
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ISBN: 1618111957 161811672X 9781618111951 1299954251 9781299954250 9781618116727 9781618111739 1618111736 Year: 2013 Publisher: Boston, MA Academic Studies Press

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This study explores the evolution of Lomonosov's imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the closing years of the Soviet period. It reveals much about the intersection in Russian culture of attitudes towards the meaning and significance of science, as well as about the rise of a Russian national identity, of which Lomonosov became an outstanding symbol. Idealized depictions of Lomonosov were employed by Russian scientists, historians, and poets, among others, in efforts to affirm to their countrymen and to the state the pragmatic advantages of science to a modernizing nation. In setting forth this assumption, Usitalo notes that no sharply drawn division can be upheld between the utilization of the myth of Lomonosov during the Soviet period of Russian history and that which characterized earlier views. The main elements that formed the mythology were laid down in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Soviet scholars simply added more exaggerated layers to existing representations.


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Reading Russia, vol. 1 : A History of Reading in Modern Russia
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ISBN: 8855267051 8855261924 Year: 2022 Publisher: Milano : Ledizioni,

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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.

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