Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: More than "Wish You Were Here" -- Chapter One. The Market for Picture Postcards in Russia -- Chapter Two. The Landscapes of Russian Imperialism -- Chapter Three. Gender and Celebrity Culture via the Lens of the Picture Postcard: The Case of Vera Kholodnaia, the "Queen of the Russian Screen" -- Chapter Four. Bodies on Display: Romantic and Erotic Postcards in Fin-de-Siècle Russia -- Chapter Five. Monarchy and the Mundane: Picture Postcards and Images of the Romanovs -- Chapter Six. Beyond Patriotic Discourse: Picture Postcards and Russia's First World War -- Chapter Seven. Picture Postcards and the Russian Revolution, 1905-1922 -- Epilogue Picture Postcards across the Revolutionary Divide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
In Open Letters, the most comprehensive study of Russian picture postcards to date, Alison Rowley uses this medium to explore a variety of aspects of Russian popular culture
