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Author McReynolds, Louise, 1952- author.

Title Russia at play : leisure activities at the end of the tsarist era / Louise McReynolds
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 309 pages) : illustrations
Contents The origins of Russia's legitimate stage -- Commercializing the legitimate stage -- Sporting life as modern life -- The actress and the wrestler -- The Russian tourist at home and abroad -- "Steppin' out" in the Russian night at the fin-de-siècle -- In the whirlwind of a waltz -- Tsarist Russia's dream factories
Summary "In Russia at Play, Louise McReynolds portrays 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."
"Leisure-time activities, McReynolds finds, allowed Russians to re-create 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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Leisure -- Russia -- History
Middle class -- Recreation -- Russia -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Leisure
Manners and customs
Middle class -- Recreation
Unterhaltung
Recreatie.
SUBJECT Russia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004168
Subject Russia
Russland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501728778
1501728776