Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution, 1881-1940

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgements v
• Contents vii
• List of Illustrations ix
• List of Contributors xi
• Translation and Transliteration xiii
• Introduction: Literature, History, Culture 1
• Part I Prologue: Key Concepts Before 1881 11
• Lichnostˊ: Notions of Individual Identity 13
• Obshchestvennostˊ, Sobornostˊ: Collective Identities 26
• Narodnostˊ: Notions of National Identity 28
• Literaturnostˊ: Literature and the Market-Place 37
• Suggested Further Reading 50
• Notes 51
• Part Ii Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial Russia 55
• 1: The Objective Eye and the Common Good 57
• Suggested Further Reading 99
• Notes 101
• 2: Commercial Culture and Consumerism 106
• Suggested Further Reading 156
• Notes 159
• 3: Collapse and Creation 165
• Suggested Further Reading 217
• Notes 220
• Part III Epilogue Constructing A New Russia: Change and Continuity in the Aftermath of Revolution 225
• Introduction: Iconoclasm and Commemorating the Past 227
• Programmes for Identity: the 'New Man' and the 'New Woman' 256
• Directed Desires: Kulˊturnostˊ and Consumption 291
• Conclusion: from "Russian Empire" to 'soviet Union' 314
• Suggested Further Reading 318
• Notes 320
• Index 331

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