How Russia Learned to Talk: A History of Public Speaking in the Stenographic Age, 1860-1930

by Stephen Lovell

Russia in the late nineteenth century may have been an autocracy, but it was far from silent. In the 1860s, new venues for public speech sprang up: local and municipal assemblies, the courtroom, and universities and learned societies. Theatre became more lively and vernacular, while the Orthodox Church exhorted its priests to become better preachers. Although the tsarist government attempted to restrain Russia's emerging orators, the empire was entering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199546428
• ISBN13: 9780199546428
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"