Russia at Play : : Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era / / Louise McReynolds.
An athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a movie scenarist takes to writing restaurant reviews. Intrepid women hunt bears, drive in automobile races, and fly, first in balloons and then in airplanes. Sensational crimes jump from city streets onto the screen al...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. The Origins of Russia's Legitimate Stage
- 2. Commercializing the Legitimate Stage
- 3. Sporting Life as Modern Life
- 4. The Actress and the Wrestler: Gendering Identities
- 5.The Russian Tourist at Home and Abroad
- 6. "Steppin' Out" in the Russian Night at the Fin de Siecle
- 7. "In the Whirlwind of a Waltz": Performing in the Night
- 8. Tsarist Russia's Dream Factories
- Epilogue
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index