Russia at Play – Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era
Autor Louise Mcreynoldsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 noi 2002
In Russia at Play, Louise McReynolds recreates a vibrant, rapidly changing culture in rich detail. Her account encompasses the "legitimate" stage, vaudeville, nightclubs, restaurants, sports, tourism, and the silent movie industry. McReynolds reveals a pluralist and dynamic society, and shows how the new icons of mass culture affected the subsequent gendering of identities.
The rapid industrialization and urbanization of the late tsarist period spawned dramatic social changes--an urban middle class and a voracious consumer culture demanded new forms of entertainment. The result was the rapid incursion of commercial values into the arts and the athletic field and unprecedented degrees of social interaction in the new nightclubs, vaudeville houses, and cheap movie houses. Traditional rules of social conduct shifted to greater self-fulfillment and self-expression, values associated with the individualism and consumerism of liberal capitalism.
Leisure-time activities, McReynolds finds, allowed Russians who partook of them to recreate themselves, to develop a modern identity that allowed for different senses of the self depending on the circumstances. The society that spawned these impulses would disappear in Russia for decades under the combined blows of revolution, civil war, and collectivization, but questions of personal identity are again high on the agenda as Russia makes the transition from a collectivist society to one in which the dominant ethos remains undefined.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780801440274
ISBN-10: 0801440270
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 166 x 242 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0801440270
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 166 x 242 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
Locul publicării:United States
Descriere
An athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a movie scenarist takes to writing restaurant reviews. Intrepid women hunt bears, drive in automobile races, and fly, first in balloons and then in airplanes. Sensational...