How Russia Learned to Talk: A History of Public Speaking in the Stenographic Age, 1860-1930 PDF
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OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,4/2/2020,SPi OXFORD STUDIES IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY General Editors SIMON DIXON MARK MAZOWER AND JAMES RETALLACK OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,4/2/2020,SPi OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,4/2/2020,SPi How Russia Learned to Talk A History of Public Speaking in the – Stenographic Age, 1860 1930 STEPHEN LOVELL 1 OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,4/2/2020,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©StephenLovell2020 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2020 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2019946068 ISBN 978–0–19–954642–8 Printedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,4/2/2020,SPi Acknowledgements Thisbookhasbeeningestationforalongtime,andIcanhardlydojusticetothe many people who have provided me with insights and practical assistance. But I must at least mention the colleagues who were kind enough to read and commentondraftchapters:DanielBeer,SimonDixon,LauraEngelstein,Simon Franklin, Diane Koenker, Gabriella Safran, and Steve Smith. By far the longest contribution has come from Simon Dixon, who as series editor has provided friendlycounselfromtheverybeginning. I have also benefited from considerable institutional support: an AHRC Fellowship in 2010–11 allowed me to make my first serious progress with the project,andsabbaticalleavefrommyowndepartmentatKing’sCollegeLondon in2016–17gavemethetimetocompleteadraft.Inbetween,Iwasabletogather somematerialforthisbookalongsideanotherprojectduringanidyllicyearatthe Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg in Konstanz in 2012–13. Of the various places where I have worked, the Slavonic Library of the National Library of Finland deservesspecialmention,andinparticularIrinaLukka. MyeditorsatOxfordUniversityPresshavetoleratedaquiteexcessivedelayin deliveringthemanuscript.Ihavegreatlyappreciatedthegood-humouredexpert- iseofRobertFaberandCathrynSteele. Ialsogratefullyacknowledgethehelpful contributionsoftheanonymousreviewersofthebookproposalandmanuscript. Thisbookcontainsinrevisedformsomematerialthathasalreadyappearedin thefollowingtwoarticles: ‘Glasnost’ in Practice: Public Speaking in the Age of Alexander II’, Past and Present,218/1(2013):127–58,©PastandPresentSociety. ‘Stenography and the Public Sphere in Modern Russia’, Cahiers du Monde russe,56/2-3(2015):291–325,©EHESS,Paris. Ithanktheeditorsofthesejournalsfor theirpermissiontoreusethematerial here. Finally, a note on transliteration: I have used the Library of Congress system, with exceptions for well-known historical figures (thus ‘Trotsky’, not ‘Trotskii’; ‘Gogol’,not‘Gogol’’;‘Tolstoy’,not‘Tolstoi’). OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,4/2/2020,SPi OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,4/2/2020,SPi Contents ListofFigures ix Abbreviations xi Introduction:TalkingasHistory 1 1. Glasnost’inPractice:PublicSpeakingintheReformEra,1856–67 21 2. TrialsandTribulations:TheLong1870s,1867–81 65 3. SmallDeedsandMuffledVoices:TheAgeofCounter-Reform, 1881–95 98 4. TheRiseofPoliticalSpeech,1895–1905 129 5. PublicSpeakingintheAgeoftheStateDuma 166 6. RevolutionaryTalk,1917–18 235 7. SovietTalk 266 Epilogue 295 Bibliography 301 Index 321 OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,4/2/2020,SPi OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,4/2/2020,SPi List of Figures 1.1. VasiliiPerov,TheVillageSermon(1861). 39 2.1. ‘AProvincialCourtroom’. 86 3.1. DrawingoftrialofassassinsofAlexanderII. 99 4.1. GaponwithStPetersburggovernorIvanFullonattheopeningofasection ofhisworkerassembly,1904. 141 5.1. ThePresidiumoftheFirstStateDuma,1906. 173 5.2. Aneditordictatesthestenographer’stexttoatypist. 179 5.3. ApeasantdeputyinhislodgingsinStPetersburg. 187 5.4. The‘lobby’oftheStateDuma. 189 5.5. PhotographofAlad’in,Zhilkin,andAnikin. 191 5.6. PortraitofFedorGolovin. 201 5.7. PhotographbyKarlBullaofS.V.Nechitailo. 201 5.8. PortraitofVladimirPurishkevich. 203 6.1. Kerenskyexhortsaregiment. 244 7.1. LeningivesaspeechattheThirdCongressoftheCommunistInternational. 277
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