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Russia at play : leisure activities at the end of the tsarist era / Louise McReynolds.
LIBRA GV93 .M38 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McReynolds, Louise, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leisure--Russia--History.
- Leisure.
- Middle class--Recreation--Russia--History.
- Middle class.
- Middle class--Recreation.
- History.
- Russia--Social life and customs.
- Russia.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- The origins of Russia's legitimate stage
- Commercializing the legitimate stage
- Sporting life as modern life
- The actress and the wrestler : gendering identities
- The Russian tourist at home and abroad
- "Steppin' out" in the Russian night at the Fin de Siècle
- "In the whirlwind of a waltz" : performing in the night
- Tsarist Russia's dream factories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-304) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801440270
- OCLC:
- 49903170
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