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Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of the Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700-1800
By (Author) Gary Marker
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
070.50947
Hardback
318
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
595g
Gary Marker describes the pursuit of an effective public voice by political, Church, and literary elites in Russia as synonymous with the struggle to control the printed media, showing that Russian publishing and printing evolved in a way that sharply diverged from Western experiences but that proved to be highly significant for Russian society. O