Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Note on Transliteration ix
5. Preface xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Russian Eighteenth-Century Popular Enlightenment Literature on Commerce 29
8. 2. Dinner at Smirdin’s: Forces in Russian Print Culture in the Early Reign of Nicholas I 54
9. 3. The Proliferation of Elite Readerships and Circle Poetics in Pushkin and Baratynskii (1820s–1830s) 82
10. 4. The Archaeology of ‘Backwardness’ in Russia: Assessing the Adequacy of Libraries for Rural Audiences in Late Imperial Russia 108
11. 5. The Reading Culture of Russian Workers in the Early Twentieth Century (Evidence from Public Library Records) 142
12. 6. Reading between the (Confessional) Lines: The Intersection of Old Believer Manuscript Books and Images with Print Cultures of Late Imperial Russia 165
13. 7. The Moral Self in Russia’s Literary and Visual Cultures: The Late Imperial Era and Beyond 201
14. 8. Books and Their Readers in Twentieth-Century Russia 231
15. 9. Adapting Paratextual Theory to the Soviet Context: Publishing Practices and the Readers of Il’f and Petrov’s Ostap Bender Novels 252
16. 10. Closing and Opening and Closing: Reflections on the Russian Media 281
17. Appendix: The Internet on the State of Mass Media in Russia 301
18. Contributors 305
19. Backmatter 309