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In Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia , Susan Smith-Peter shows how ideas of civil society encouraged the growth of subnational identity in Russia before 1861. Adam Smith and G.W.F. Hegel’s ideas of civil society influenced Russians and the resulting plans to stimulate the growth of civil society also formed subnational identities. It challenges the view of the provinces as empty space held by Nikolai Gogol, who rejected the new non-noble provincial identity and welcomed a noble-only district identity. By 1861, these non-noble and noble publics would come together to form a multi-estate provincial civil society whose promise was not fulfilled due to the decision of the government to keep the peasant estate institutionally separate.

Regionalism --- Group identity --- Civil society --- Serfs --- Central-local government relations --- History --- History. --- Emancipation --- Russia --- Rural conditions

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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 second volume of Reading Russia considers the evolution of reading during the long nineteenth century (1800-1917), 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 Russia gradually led to a significant expansion of the reading public. At the same time, in part due to the influence of new literature reading policies in schools, there was a greater cultural standardisation of Russian society, which was partially opposed by new forms of poetic reading.

History --- Literature Slavic --- Literature (General) --- Cultura russa --- i russi e i loro testi preferiti --- evoluzione della lettura in Russia --- 1800-1917 --- romanzi --- quotidiani --- settimanali --- standardizzazione culturale del russo --- nuove forme di lettura poetica --- Russian culture --- Russians and their favorite texts --- evolution of reading in Russia --- novels --- daily newspapers --- weekly magazines --- cultural standardisation of Russian --- new forms of poetic reading