Introduction / Miranda Remnek -- 1. Russian eighteenth-century popular enlightenment literature on commerce / Lina Bernstein -- 2. Dinner at Smirdin's: forces in Russian print culture in the early reign of Nicholas I / George Gutsche -- 3. The proliferation of elite readerships and circle poetics in Pushkin and Baratynskii (1820s-1830s) / Joseph Peschio and Igor' Pil'shchikov -- 4. The archaeology of "backwardness" in Russia: assessing the adequacy of libraries for rural audiences in late Imperial Russia / Ben Eklof -- 5. The reading culture of Russian workers in the early twentieth century (evidence from public library records) / Leonid Borodkin and Evgeny Chugunov -- 6. Reading between the (confessional) lines: the intersection of Old Believer manuscript books and images with print cultures of late Imperial Russia / Kevin M. Kain -- 7. The moral self in Russia's literacy and visual cultures: the late imperial era and beyond / Jeffrey Brooks -- 8. Books and their readers in twentieth-century Russia / Stephen Lovell -- 9. Adapting paratextual theory to the Soviet context : publishing practices and the readers of Il'f and Petrov's Ostap Bender novels / Anne O. Fisher -- 10. Closing and opening and closing: reflections on the Russian media / Marianna Tax Choldin -- Appendix. the internet on the state of mass media in Russia / Svetlana Stulova
Summary
Skilfully connecting multidisciplinary sources along broad historical continuum, The Space of the Book will be a valuable resource as the study of Russian print culture takes on new directions in a digitized world
