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Regular version of the site
Book
Multilingual Moscow. Dynamics of Language and Migration in a Capital City
Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024.
Article
Russian Review. 2024. Vol. 83. No. 1. P. 108-125.
Book chapter
Bergelson M., Koryakov Y., Dionysios Zoumpalidis.
In bk.: Multilingual Moscow. Dynamics of Language and Migration in a Capital City. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024. Ch. 9. P. 173-181.
Working paper
Kuznetsov Egor.
Linguistics. WP BRP. НИУ ВШЭ, 2023. No. 113.
Lenin Should be Bound, not Stapled!
Event ended
Jessica Bachman to present a Master's Research Seminar.
Lenin Should be Bound, not Stapled! or how Third World Readers Derived Meaning (and occasional annoyance) from the Materiality of Soviet Texts during the early Cold War
In this talk, Bachman discusses how methods from Book History and insights from the field of inquiry known as “new materialism” can be brought to bear on the historical study of the Soviet Union’s post-Stalinist, internationalist push to develop friendly relations with countries of the decolonizing Third World. While Soviet internationalism under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev took on many cultural forms, this talk will focus on the translation and publication efforts of the USSR’s Foreign Languages Publishing House (later renamed “Progress”), which rapidly expanded its presence on Third World book markets during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Drawing on a rich body of new archival evidence collected here in Moscow, Bachman will show how material embodiments of Soviet texts, from their binding and paper materials to their photographic inserts, color illustrations, and dust covers, affected how widely particular genres of texts were distributed and consumed in developing countries such as India, Ceylon, Israel, and Indonesia. She will also call attention to the force that these materialisms exerted on readers’ interpretation of particular Soviet texts and the publishing house’s own production plans with the aim of understanding the larger success story of the USSR’s literary internationalism during the second half of the twentieth century.
Lenin Should be Bound, not Stapled! or how Third World Readers Derived Meaning (and occasional annoyance) from the Materiality of Soviet Texts during the early Cold War
In this talk, Bachman discusses how methods from Book History and insights from the field of inquiry known as “new materialism” can be brought to bear on the historical study of the Soviet Union’s post-Stalinist, internationalist push to develop friendly relations with countries of the decolonizing Third World. While Soviet internationalism under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev took on many cultural forms, this talk will focus on the translation and publication efforts of the USSR’s Foreign Languages Publishing House (later renamed “Progress”), which rapidly expanded its presence on Third World book markets during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Drawing on a rich body of new archival evidence collected here in Moscow, Bachman will show how material embodiments of Soviet texts, from their binding and paper materials to their photographic inserts, color illustrations, and dust covers, affected how widely particular genres of texts were distributed and consumed in developing countries such as India, Ceylon, Israel, and Indonesia. She will also call attention to the force that these materialisms exerted on readers’ interpretation of particular Soviet texts and the publishing house’s own production plans with the aim of understanding the larger success story of the USSR’s literary internationalism during the second half of the twentieth century.
Date
January 16, 2019 16:30