Overview

According to Benedict Anderson, the rapid expansion of print media during the late-1700s popularised national history and standardised national languages, thus helping create nation-states and national identities at the expense of the old empires. Publishing in Tsarist Russia challenges this theory and, by examining the history of Russian publishing through a transnational lens, reveals how the popular press played an important and complex Imperial role, while providing a “soft infrastructure” which the subjects could access to change Imperial order. As this volume convincingly argues, this is because the Russian language at this time was a lingua franca; it crossed borders and boundaries, reaching speakers of varying nationalities. Russian publications, then, were able to effectively operate within the structure of Imperialism but as a public space, they went beyond the control of the Tsar and ethnic Russians. This exciting international team of scholars provide a much-needed, fresh take on the history of Russian publishing and contribute significantly to our understanding of print media, language and empire from the 18th to 20th centuries. Publishing in Tsarist Russia is therefore a vital resource for scholars of Russian history, comparative nationalism, and publishing studies.

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Author:   Dr. Yukiko Tatsumi ,  Dr. Taro Tsurumi
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9781350109339

ISBN 10:   1350109339
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction: The Entangled History of Publishing in Russian, Yukiko Tatsumi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan) and Taro Tsurumi (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Chapter 1. Russian Language as a Vehicle for the Enlightenment: Catherine II’s Translation Projects and the Society Striving for the Translation of Foreign Books, Yusuke Toriyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Chapter 2. By Whom, How, When and for What Purpose the Russian Classic was Made, Abram I. Reitblat (The editorial board of ‘Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie’, Russia) Chapter 3. ‘The Period of Stagnation’ Fostered by Publishing: Popularisation, Nationalisation, and Internationalisation of Russian Literature around the 1880s, Hajime Kaizawa (Waseda University, Japan) Chapter 4. Transnational Architects of the Imagined Community: Publishers and the Russian Press in the Late 19th Century, Yukiko Tatsumi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan) Chapter 5. The Evolution of a Buddhist Culture through Russian Media: Kalmyks, Orientalists and Pilgrimages in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Takehiko Inoue (Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan) Chapter 6. A Collateral Cultural Revolution: Russia’s State-Driven Papermaking and Publishing Efforts and their Effects on Volga-Ural Muslim Book Culture, 1780s-1905, Danielle Ross (Utah State University, USA) Chapter 7.Ethnic Minorities Speak Up: Non-Russian Clergy and a Russian Orthodox Journal in the Middle Volga Region in the Late Imperial Period, Akira Sakurama (Independent Researcher, Japan) Chapter 8. ‘News from the War’: Print Culture and the Nation in World War I Russia, Melissa Stockdale (University of Oklahoma, USA) Chapter 9. Jewish Nationalism in the Russian Language: The Imagined Provinciality among Siberian and Far Eastern Zionists at the Time of the Imperial Collapse, Taro Tsurumi (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Conclusion: A History of a Soft Infrastructure, Taro Tsurumi (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Bibliography Index

Reviews

Almost uniquely among the many studies of Russian print culture, the essays in Publishing in Tsarist Russia collectively situate Russian printing exactly where it should be, within a multi-confessional, poly-lingual, and transnational landscape. Its contributions by leading Japanese, Russian, and US scholars offer a wide-range of subjects, within recurring and interconnected modes of analysis drawn from contemporary historiography, sociology, and cultural studies. It is a welcome and valuable contribution. * Gary Marker, Professor of History, Stony Brook University, USA * `Influential works by Eugene Weber and Benedict Anderson have given rise to a widespread view that state policies of education, and standardisation of a national language, have helped forge modern national consciousness. This trailblazing volume presents a challenging view that, in the case of the Russian Empire, the story is much more complex. Focusing on the press and print media they show that no such linear relationship existed. This important story is not only of interest to all scholars of Russia but is a major contribution to the wider history of the vital interaction of language, publishing and national consciousness. * Christopher Read, Professor of Modern European History, University of Warwick, UK *

[A] thoughtful, wide-ranging, and original contribution to scholarship on publishing, readerships, and emergent identities in late imperial Russia. Its nine chapters, well framed by the book's introduction and brief conclusion, display extensive knowledge of their subject-matter and familiarity with scholarship on it. * The Russian Review * Almost uniquely among the many studies of Russian print culture, the essays in Publishing in Tsarist Russia collectively situate Russian printing exactly where it should be, within a multi-confessional, poly-lingual, and transnational landscape. It is a welcome and valuable contribution. * Gary Marker, Professor of History, Stony Brook University, USA * Challenging the widespread view that state policies of education and language helped forge modern national consciousness, this trailblazing volume shows that, in the case of the Russian Empire, no such linear relationship existed. Publishing in Tsarist Russia is thus a major contribution to both Russian history and the wider history of the vital interaction of language, publishing and national consciousness. * Christopher Read, Professor of Modern European History, University of Warwick, UK *

Author Information

Yukiko Tatsumi is Associate Professor of Russian history at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. She is the author of Tsar and the Masses: A History of Reading in Imperial Russia [in Japanese] (2019). Taro Tsurumi is Associate Professor of Russian and East European Studies at The University of Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Zion Imagined: Russian Jews at the End of Empire [in Japanese] (2012).

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