List of Illustrations
Note on Translations and Conventions
Abbreviations
IntroductionHow to Read this Book
1: Educating Tatyana, Schooling Energy: Propaganda for Manners and
Moral Education, 1760-1830
2: The Beauties of Byt: Household Manuals, Social Status, and
National Identity, 1830-1880
3: Self-Help and Spending Power: Advice Literature in Late Imperial
Russia
4: 'The Personal Does Not Exist': Advising the Early Soviet Mass
Reader, 1917-1953
5: Negotiating Consumerism: The Dilemmas of Behaviour Literature,
1953-2000
Afterword
Appendices
Select Bibliography
Index
Catriona Kelly is Reader in Russian, New College, Oxford
... offers new and useful insights into cultural developments in Russia, while also exploring the relationship between life and art from the late eighteenth century to the present. Modern Language Review ... covers an immense breadth of materials with great confidence and expertise, dealing with over two hundred years of Russian cultural history through a range of sources ... This book is indispensable for scholars and students of (not only) Russian history and culture, but is also a valuable source for the more general reader, wishing to 'educate himself' on 'educational literature'. Modern Language Review Fascinating Laura Engelstein, Times Literary Supplement
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