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The making of the state reader : social and aesthetic contexts of the reception of Soviet literature / Evgeny Dobrenko ; translated by Jesse M. Savage.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dobrenko, E. A. (Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich)
- Standardized Title:
- Formovka sovetskogo chitateli͡a. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian literature--20th century--Appreciation--Soviet Union.
- Russian literature.
- Books and reading--Soviet Union.
- Books and reading.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (392 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is a history of the shaping of the reader of Soviet literature, for in Soviet culture the reader was never a "consumer of books" in the Western sense. According to the doctrine of Socialist Realism, the reader was a subject of education, to be reforged and molded.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-363) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8047-8038-2
- OCLC:
- 923699789
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