Illustrated with maps, paintings, photographs, posters, and cartoons, "The Russia Reader" incorporates song lyrics, jokes, anecdotes, and folktales, as well as poems, essays, and fiction by writers including Akhmatova, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, and Tolstoi. Transcripts from the show trials of major Party figures and an account of how staff at the Lenin Library in Moscow were instructed to interact with foreigners are among the many selections based on personal memoirs and archival materials only recently made available to the public. From a tenth-century emissary's description of his encounters in Kyivan Rus', to a scientist's recollections of her life in a new research city built from scratch in Siberia during the 1950s, to a novelist's depiction of the decadence of the "New Russians" in the 2000s, "The Russia Reader" is an extraordinary introduction to a vast and varied country.
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Illustrated with maps, paintings, photographs, posters, and cartoons, "The Russia Reader" incorporates song lyrics, jokes, anecdotes, and folktales, as well as poems, essays, and fiction by writers including Akhmatova, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, and Tolstoi. Transcripts from the show trials of major Party figures and an account of how staff at the Lenin Library in Moscow were instructed to interact with foreigners are among the many selections based on personal memoirs and archival materials only recently made available to the public. From a tenth-century emissary's description of his encounters in Kyivan Rus', to a scientist's recollections of her life in a new research city built from scratch in Siberia during the 1950s, to a novelist's depiction of the decadence of the "New Russians" in the 2000s, "The Russia Reader" is an extraordinary introduction to a vast and varied country.
Imprint | Duke University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | The World Readers |
Release date | July 2010 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | July 2010 |
Editors | Adele Marie Barker, Bruce Grant |
Dimensions | 235 x 156 x 48mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 784 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-4648-7 |
Barcode | 9780822346487 |
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LSN | 0-8223-4648-6 |