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Publishing in Tsarist Russia, a history of print media from enlightenment to revolution, edited by Yukiko Tatsumi and Taro Tsurumi

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Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Publishing in Tsarist Russia

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edited by Yukiko Tatsumi and Taro Tsurumi

Bloomsbury eBooks.Library of Modern Russia

a history of print media from enlightenment to revolution

"According to Benedict Anderson, the rapid expansion of print media during the late-1700s popularised national history and standardised national languages, thus helping create nation-states and national identities at the expense of the old empires. Publishing in Tsarist Russia challenges this theory and, by examining the history of Russian publishing through a transnational lens, reveals how the popular press played an important and complex Imperial role, while providing a "soft infrastructure" which the subjects could access to change Imperial order. As this volume convincingly argues, this is because the Russian language at this time was a lingua franca; it crossed borders and boundaries, reaching speakers of varying nationalities. Russian publications, then, were able to effectively operate within the structure of Imperialism but as a public space, they went beyond the control of the Tsar and ethnic Russians. This exciting international team of scholars provide a much-needed, fresh take on the history of Russian publishing and contribute significantly to our understanding of print media, language and empire from the 18th to 20th centuries. Publishing in Tsarist Russia is therefore a vital resource for scholars of Russian history, comparative nationalism, and publishing studies."--, Provided by publisher

List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Introduction: The Entangled History of Publishing in Russian, Yukiko Tatsumi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan) and Taro Tsurumi (The University of Tokyo, Japan) -- Chapter 1. Russian Language as a Vehicle for the Enlightenment: Catherine II's Translation Projects and the Society Striving for the Translation of Foreign Books, Yusuke Toriyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan) -- Chapter 2. By Whom, How, When and for What Purpose the Russian Classic was Made, Abram I. Reitblat (The editorial board of 'Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie', Russia) -- Chapter 3. 'The Period of Stagnation' Fostered by Publishing: Popularisation, Nationalisation, and Internationalisation of Russian Literature around the 1880s, Hajime Kaizawa (Waseda University, Japan) -- Chapter 4. Transnational Architects of the Imagined Community: Publishers and the Russian Press in the Late 19th Century, Yukiko Tatsumi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan) -- Chapter 5. The Evolution of a Buddhist Culture through Russian Media: Kalmyks, Orientalists and Pilgrimages in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Takehiko Inoue (Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan) -- Chapter 6. A Collateral Cultural Revolution: Russia's State-Driven Papermaking and Publishing Efforts and their Effects on Volga-Ural Muslim Book Culture, 1780s-1905, Danielle Ross (Utah State University, USA) -- Chapter 7.Ethnic Minorities Speak Up: Non-Russian Clergy and a Russian Orthodox Journal in the Middle Volga Region in the Late Imperial Period, Akira Sakurama (Independent Researcher, Japan) -- Chapter 8. 'News from the War': Print Culture and the Nation in World War I Russia, Melissa Stockdale (University of Oklahoma, USA) -- Chapter 9. Jewish Nationalism in the Russian Language: The Imagined Provinciality among Siberian and Far Eastern Zionists at the Time of the Imperial Collapse, Taro Tsurumi (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Conclusion: A History of a Soft Infrastructure, Taro Tsurumi (The University of Tokyo, Japan) -- Bibliography -- Index