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Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of emancipation--all come to life in this absorbing and dramatic account. The author's history begins with the feminist, nihilist, and populist impulses of the 1860s and 1870s, and leads to the social mobilization campaigns of the early Soviet period.

Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in society's value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a groundbreaking history of visual and performing arts in the last decades of serfdom. Provincial town and manor house engaged the culture of Moscow and St. Petersburg while thousands of serfs and ex-serfs created or performed. Mikhail Glinka raised Russian music to new levels and Anton Rubinstein struggled to found a conservatory. Long before the itinerants, painters explored town...

Six essays set forth Stites's approach to cultural history...

"This lively and often moving collection of essays is an important contribution to Western scholarship on Soviet society and culture during the Second World War.... a] straightforward but lively description of cultural life, unhampered by excessive interpretation or cultural theory. For all those who love Russia s cultural heritage, these essays cast a welcome spotlight on some of the people and pockets of life from that tragic but compelling time." Canadian Slavonic Papers

"Enjoyable to read and accessible to the nonspecialist, Culture and Entertainment is not only an indispensable...