Refining Russia: advice literature, polite culture, and gender from Catherine to Yeltsin

Abstract

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS AND CONVENTIONS ABBREVIATIONS HOW TO READ THIS BOOK 1. Educating Tatyana, Schooling Energy: Propaganda for Manners and Moral Education, 1760-1830 2. The Beauties of Byt: Household Manuals, Social Status, and National Identity, 1830-1880 3. Self-Help and Spending Power: Advice Literature in Late Imperial Russia 4. 'The Personal Does Not Exist': Advising the Early Soviet Mass Reader, 1917-1953 5. Negotiating Consumerism: The Dilemmas of Behaviour Literature, 1953-2000 AFTERWORD APPENDICES SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX