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Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin

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Refining Russia is a pioneering study of the development of advice literature in Russia, and of its reception and wider cultural meaning. An absorbing and original exercise in history of the book, it is also a major contribution to the understanding of Russia's relationship with the West, and of the cultural world inhabited by the Russian intelligentsia.

Language: English

Pages: 488

Format: Hardcover

Release: August 09, 2001

ISBN 13: 9780198159872

Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin

0/5 ( ratings)

Refining Russia is a pioneering study of the development of advice literature in Russia, and of its reception and wider cultural meaning. An absorbing and original exercise in history of the book, it is also a major contribution to the understanding of Russia's relationship with the West, and of the cultural world inhabited by the Russian intelligentsia.

Language: English

Pages: 488

Format: Hardcover

Release: August 09, 2001

ISBN 13: 9780198159872

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