Publication news: Reading Russia. A History of Reading in Modern Russia

READ-IT Associate Partner Prof. Damiano Rebecchini (Universita Degli Studi di Milano), with Associate Prof. Raffaella Vassena, is pleased to announce the publication of his latest edited volume Reading Russia. A History of Reading in Modern Russia.

Scholars of Russian culture have always paid close attention to texts and their authors, but they have often forgotten about the readers. These 3 volumes illuminate encounters between the Russians and their favourite texts, a centuries-long and continent-spanning “love story” that shaped the way people think, feel, and communicate. The fruit of thirty-one specialists’ research, Reading Russia. A History of Reading in Modern Russia represents the first attempt to systematically depict the evolution of reading in Russia from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Please find links to the three volumes below:

Reading Russia. A History of Reading in Modern Russia, edited by Damiano Rebecchini and Raffaella Vassena, Milan, Ledizioni, 2020, 3 volls, open-access.

Vol. 1:

http://www.lingue.unimi.it/extfiles/unimidire/182801/attachment/reading-russia-vol1-web.pdf

Vol. 2:

http://www.lingue.unimi.it/extfiles/unimidire/182801/attachment/rr-volume2-def-web.pdf

Vol. 3:

http://www.lingue.unimi.it/extfiles/unimidire/182801/attachment/reading-russia-vol3-web.pdf