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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
[ Urban Culture of the Russian Province : Late 18th — early 19th centuries]
Moscow: Novyi Khronograf, 2007 480 p. [12 ill.] Serie: Rossiiskoe obshchestvo. Sovremennye issledovaniia Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 9785948810188 Language: Russian
This book studies communication mechanisms between metropolitan and provincial cultures in the development of the Russian national culture. According to the author, the institutions of secular culture (schools, departmental and public libraries, theaters and noble meetings) as well as the culture of city dwellers played an important role in the transmission of forms and values of the new national culture at the end of the 18th – first half of the 19th centuries. Contents: Cultural environment of a Russian town; Political culture: Ideas on power and self-governing; Fashion and power: Issues of identity of Russian town dwellers; Feelings and ideas of Russian town dwellers. 20 color illustrations.
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