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Stephen Lovell

How Russia Learned to Talk

A History of Public Speaking in the Stenographic Age, 1860-1930

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Russia in the late nineteenth century may have been an autocracy, but it was far from silent. In the 1860s, new venues for public speech sprang up: local and municipal assemblies, the courtroom, and universities and learned societies. Theatre became more lively and vernacular, while the Orthodox Church exhorted its priests to become better preachers. Although the tsarist government attempted to restrain Russia's emerging orators, the empire was entering an era ofvigorous modern politics. All the while, the spoken word was amplified by the written: the new institutions of the 1860s brought with them the adoption of stenography. Russian politic… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-257500-5
  • EAN: 9780192575005
  • Produktnummer: 33580857
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'008 KB
  • Abbildungen: 14 black and white illustrations

Über den Autor


Stephen Lovell is Professor of Modern History at King's College London. His previous books include the prize-winning Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710-2000 (2003) and Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970 (2015).

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