Sources on Russian (popular?) culture 1880-1910s

[Alexandra Smith]

Dear Francoise,

Unfortunately Orlando Figes's book Natasha Dance has too many errors  
and it's not a reliable source of information.

I hope some books listed below will be of some help to your student:

1.Engelstein, Laura. The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for  
Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Russia (1992);
2. Amy Mandelker "FRAMING ANNA KARENINA: Tolstoy, the Woman Question,  
and the Victorian Novel".
3.  Schuler, Catherine. " Women In Russian Theatre: The Actress in the  
Silver Age (Gender in Performance)".
4.     Olga Vainshtein. "Dandy. Fashion, Literature and Lifestyle", 2006.
5. John Hutchinson. "Late Imperial Russia, 1890-1917", 1999.
6, Kelly, Catriona. Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite  
Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin (OUP 2001).
7.Hosking, Geoffrey. Russia: People and Empire (1552-1917); and:  
Russia and the Russians.

All best,
Sasha Smith




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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Reader in Russian
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
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Quoting Francoise Rosset <frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU>:

> Dear SEELangers:
>
> I'm looking for suggestions for an (undergraduate) non-Russian major
> student asking about _general_ sources discussing "cultural norms,"
> "attitudes toward gender, religion, education, the family" around
> Chekhov's time.
>
> The library has suggested books like _Natasha's Dance_ and _Cultural
> Mythologies_. All my material on Chekhov is about stage history or
> literature (including *Anton Chekhov and His Times*, which consists of
> correspondence). I could also suggest various specific things on the
> "Woman Question," Sofia Kovalevskaia, The Kreutzer Sonata, Kollontai
> etc. But I don't have anything general to suggest and very little on
> religion, education. Perhaps a few articles?
>
> Thank you,
> -FR
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Francoise Rosset, Associate Professor
> Chair, Russian and Russian Studies
> Coordinator, German and Russian
> Wheaton College
> Norton, Massachusetts 02766
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