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

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

Stephen Lovell

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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 beca...

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