Food in Russian History and Culture

Name: Food in Russian History and Culture
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ISBN: 9780253332523

ISBN-10: 0253332524

ISBN-13: 9780253332523

Edition: 1997

Authors: Musya Glants, Joyce Toomre

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..". the specificity and breadth of this [work] makes it unique.... lively reading... particularly recommended for academic collections with a strong focus in Russian history." -- Library Journal ..". a remarkable new collection of essays... The book reads like a literary hybrid of cookbook, historical treatise, and novella; its subject is, literally, the essence of life itself.... Glants and Toomre deserve further praise for the book's consistent, animated directness of style." -- The Boston Phoenix This sparkling collection of thirteen original essays gives surprising insights into what foodways reveal about Russia's history and culture, from Kievan times to post Soviet Russia. Some of…

Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
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