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Food in Russian History and Culture

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ISBN-10: 0253211069

ISBN-13: 9780253211064

Edition: 1997

Authors: Musya Glants, Joyce Toomre, Joyce Toomre

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Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 8/22/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science and Preston Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.Musya Glants, an art historian, is a Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University.Marshall I. Goldman is Davis Professor of Russian Economics, Emeritus, Wellesley College, and Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Stovelore in Russian Folklife
Food in the Rus' Primary Chronicle
Food in Catherinian St. Petersburg
Forced Hunger and Rational Restraint in the Russian Peasant Diet: One Populist's Vision
The Practice and Significance of Fasting in Russian Peasant Culture at the Turn of the Century
Tolstoy's Way of No Flesh: Abstinence, Vegetarianism, and Christian Physiology
Is Hay Only for Horses? Highlights of Russian Vegetarianism at the Turn of the Century
An Appetite for Power: Predators, Carnivores, and Cannibals in Dostoevsky's Fiction
Strawberries and Chocolate: Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam, and the Plight of the Hungry Poet
Communal Dining and State Cafeterias in Moscow and Petrograd, 1917-1921
The Beginnings of Soviet Culinary Arts
Food and National Identity in Soviet Armenia
Food as Art: Painting in Late Soviet Russia
Contributors
Index