Open Letters : : Russian Popular Culture and the Picture Postcard 1880-1922 / / Alison Rowley.

• VerfasserIn: Rowley, Alison,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: More than "Wish You Were Here" --; Chapter One. The Market for Picture Postcards in Russia --; Chapter Two. The Landscapes of Russian Imperialism --; Chapter Three. Gender and Celebrity Culture via the Lens of the Picture Postcard: The Case of Vera Kholodnaia, the "Queen of the Russian Screen" --; Chapter Four. Bodies on Display: Romantic and Erotic Postcards in Fin-de-Siècle Russia --; Chapter Five. Monarchy and the Mundane: Picture Postcards and Images of the Romanovs --; Chapter Six. Beyond Patriotic Discourse: Picture Postcards and Russia's First World War --; Chapter Seven. Picture Postcards and the Russian Revolution, 1905-1922 --; Epilogue Picture Postcards across the Revolutionary Divide --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442667150
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442667150
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alison Rowley.

During the fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary eras, picture postcards were an important medium of communication for Russians of all backgrounds. In Open Letters, the most comprehensive study of Russian picture postcards to date, Alison Rowley uses this medium to explore a variety of aspects of Russian popular culture. The book is lavishly illustrated with more than 130 images, most of which have never been published before.Through her examinations of postcards, Rowley addresses a diverse range of topics: how landscape postcards conveyed notions of imperialism; the role of postcards in the rise of celebrity culture; depictions of the body on erotic and pornographic postcards; how postcards were employed to promote differing interpretations of the First World War; and the use of postcards by revolutionary groups seeking to overthrow the Tsarist government. Rowley determines the extent to which Russia was embedded in Europe-wide cultural trends by situating the Russian case within a larger European context.