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Author:   Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9781487561017

ISBN 10:   1487561016
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   29 July 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration, Translation, and References to Periodicals Introduction: The Socialist Literary Journal Part One: The Domestic Life of the Journal 1. Through Thick and Thin: Emergence of the Soviet Literary Journal in the 1920s 2. From War to Thaw: Decline and Revival of the Soviet Journal 3. The Social Life of Journals: Periodical Kinship Networks in the 1960s Part Two: The Transnational Life of the Journal 4. Transnational Circulations: International Literature between Moscow, Prague, and Berlin 5. The Socialist Journal without Socialism? The Case of the Third Wave Emigration Conclusion: The Death and Afterlife of the Socialist Literary Journal Appendix to Chapter 3: The Soviet Journals Reconnected Data Notes Bibliography Periodicals Archives Published Sources Index

Reviews

""Soviet ‘thick journals’ have been strikingly understudied, considering their almost legendary role in Soviet and socialist cultures. Subscribing to Sovietdom offers the first comprehensive history of this significant genre. Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner combines meticulous archive work with digital visualizations to reconstruct the complex set of networks, connections, and contrasts between Soviet journals (and their émigré counterparts). This book is a game changer for Soviet historians and Slavists, and a substantial contribution to periodical studies too."" -- Polly Jones, Professor of Russian, University College Oxford ""Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner shows that the post-Stalin era of the Russian literary journal deserves our attention no less than the nineteenth-century ‘golden age’ of Turgenev and Tolstoy. He reveals the 1950s and 1960s as a period not only of dynamic expansion of the periodical press but also of aesthetic innovation and the cultivation of new relationships with readers and contributors. Anyone with an interest in Soviet culture will want to get to know this book."" -- Stephen Lovell, Professor of Modern History, King’s College London ""Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner’s Subscribing to Sovietdom combines distant reading of big data with close reading of archival materials to offer exciting new insights into the national and transnational life of Soviet journals. The contributions of this book are at once empirical and methodological, debunking previously held assumptions about the workings of Soviet culture while modelling new approaches to the study of such complex cultural phenomena."" -- Brian James Baer, Professor of Russian and Translation Studies, Kent State University

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Philip Gleissner is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University.

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