Publishing in Tsarist Russia

Yukiko Tatsumi is Associate Professor of Russian history at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. She is the author of Tsar and the Masses: A History of Reading in Imperial Russia [in Japanese] (2019). Taro Tsurumi is Associate Professor of Russian and East European Studies at The University of Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Zion Imagined: Russian Jews at the End of Empire [in Japanese] (2012).

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesIntroduction: The Entangled History of Publishing in Russian, Yukiko Tatsumi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan) and Taro Tsurumi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)Chapter 1. Russian Language as a Vehicle for the Enlightenment: Catherine II’s Translation Projects and the Society Striving for the Translation of Foreign Books, Yusuke Toriyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan)Chapter 2. By Whom, How, When and for What Purpose the Russian Classic was Made, Abram I. Reitblat (The editorial board of ‘Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie’, Russia)Chapter 3. ‘The Period of Stagnation’ Fostered by Publishing: Popularisation, Nationalisation, and Internationalisation of Russian Literature around the 1880s, Hajime Kaizawa (Waseda University, Japan)Chapter 4. Transnational Architects of the Imagined Community: Publishers and the Russian Press in the Late 19th Century, Yukiko Tatsumi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)Chapter 5. The Evolution of a Buddhist Culture through Russian Media: Kalmyks, Orientalists and Pilgrimages in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Takehiko Inoue (Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan)Chapter 6. A Collateral Cultural Revolution: Russia’s State-Driven Papermaking and Publishing Efforts and their Effects on Volga-Ural Muslim Book Culture, 1780s-1905, Danielle Ross (Utah State University, USA)Chapter 7.Ethnic Minorities Speak Up: Non-Russian Clergy and a Russian Orthodox Journal in the Middle Volga Region in the Late Imperial Period, Akira Sakurama (Independent Researcher, Japan)Chapter 8. ‘News from the War’: Print Culture and the Nation in World War I Russia, Melissa Stockdale (University of Oklahoma, USA)Chapter 9. Jewish Nationalism in the Russian Language: The Imagined Provinciality among Siberian and Far Eastern Zionists at the Time of the Imperial Collapse, Taro Tsurumi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)Conclusion: A History of a Soft Infrastructure, Taro Tsurumi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)BibliographyIndex

[A] thoughtful, wide-ranging, and original contribution to scholarship on publishing, readerships, and emergent identities in late imperial Russia. Its nine chapters, well framed by the book’s introduction and brief conclusion, display extensive knowledge of their subject-matter and familiarity with scholarship on it.