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""The Russia Reader" provides a wonderful overview of Russian life and culture across the centuries, from the emergence of Muscovy and Russian Orthodoxy to the present day. The editors have done a remarkable job in selecting a range of texts that offer a sweeping overview of the complexity and passion of Russian life, and their brief introductions helpfully situate the texts. Whether readers follow the fate of Russia chronologically or use the book as a kaleidoscope to explore different facets of Russian life and culture, they will find a treasure trove of beautiful, dramatic, and tragic readings for exploring Russian history and culture across the ages."--Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania

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Contents

Acknowledgments.............................................................................................................................xiGeneral Introduction........................................................................................................................1The Scythians, Aleksandr Blok...............................................................................................................13On Russian Distinctiveness and Universality, Fyodor Dostoyevsky.............................................................................16To Russia (March 1854), Aleksei Khomiakov...................................................................................................20Moscow and Petersburg: 1842, Aleksandr Herzen...............................................................................................22"Great Russians" and "Little Russians," Andreas Kappeler....................................................................................31Bathing the Russian Way, From Folklore to the Songs of Vladimir Vysotskii...................................................................40A Cosmopolitan Project, Susan Buck-Morss....................................................................................................47The Igor Tale, Anonymous....................................................................................................................61The Russian Primary Chronicle, Anonymous....................................................................................................66Slavic Byzantium, George P. Fedotov.........................................................................................................70Russia through Arabian Eyes, Ibn Fadlan.....................................................................................................75Rules for Russian Households, Att. Monk Sylvestr............................................................................................80My Early Life, Ivan IV......................................................................................................................85The Bronze Horseman, Aleksandr Pushkin......................................................................................................97Peter's Social Reforms, John Perry..........................................................................................................101Love and Conquest, The Correspondence of Catherine II and Grigory Potemkin..................................................................110The War of 1812, Leo N. Tolstoi.............................................................................................................115Description of the Clergy in Rural Russia, I. S. Belliustin.................................................................................120Emancipating the Serfs, Petr Kropotkin......................................................................................................125Classic Russian Cooking, Joyce Toomre and Elena Molokhovets.................................................................................128The Challenged Gentry, Elizaveta Vodovozova.................................................................................................134Dear Nicky, Dear Sunny, The Correspondence of Nicholas II and Empress Aleksandra............................................................140Russia's Conquest of Siberia, Basil Dmytryshyn, E. A. P. Crownhart-Vaughan, and Thomas Vaughan, editors and translators.....................151Sibiriaks, Marie Czaplicka..................................................................................................................158Exile by Administrative Process, George Kennan..............................................................................................162Science Everywhere, Ol'ga Marchuk...........................................................................................................168The Big Problems of Little Peoples, Aleksandr Pika and Boris Prokhorov......................................................................174At the Source, Vladimir Sangi...............................................................................................................186The Dacha, Faddei Bulgarin..................................................................................................................201Work Done "Out of Respect," Aleksandr Engelgardt............................................................................................207The Mushroom Hunt, Sofya Kovalevskaya.......................................................................................................213Progress and Prosperity, Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace.......................................................................................218Svetloyar: In a Wild and Holy Place, Vladimir Korolenko.....................................................................................222Searching for Icons, Vladimir Soloukhin.....................................................................................................237The Village of Posady, Lev Timofeev.........................................................................................................243The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus, John F. Baddeley......................................................................................257Mtsyri, Mikhail Lermontov...................................................................................................................263Sandro of Chegem, Fazil Iskander............................................................................................................270Chechnya-A Brief Explanation, Georgi Derluguian.............................................................................................281Evening Prayers, Idris Bazorkin.............................................................................................................293The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.....................................................................................305The Background of Revolution, Edward Hallett Carr...........................................................................................310Revolution and the Front, Viktor Shklovsky..................................................................................................319Letters from the Front, Ol'ga Chaadaeva, comp...............................................................................................326The Withering Away of the State, Vladimir Lenin [V. I. Ulianov].............................................................................331Voices of Revolution, 1917, Mark Steinberg, editor..........................................................................................336Gedali, Isaac Babel.........................................................................................................................339Two Years among the Peasants in Tambov Province, A. Okninsky................................................................................343Make Way for Winged Eros, Aleksandra Kollontai..............................................................................................351The Bathhouse, Mikhail Zoshchenko...........................................................................................................362We: Variant of a Manifesto, Dziga Vertov....................................................................................................365The Travels of My...