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

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How Russia Learned to Talk: A History of Public Speaking in the Stenographic Age, 1860–1930
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Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction: Talking as History
	Why Speaking?
	Russia’s Rhetorical Legacy
	Speech and Technology
	Public Speech and the Political Imagination
	The Structure of This Book
1: Glasnost’ in Practice: Public Speaking in the Reform Era, 1856–67
	Towards a New Publichnost’
	Speech and Print
	Literature, Theatre and the Search for the Popular Voice
	Speech and Political Control: The Year of 1861
	The State’s Mouth in the Village: Orthodox Homiletics and the Reform Era
	Glasnost’ and the New Municipal Politics
	Zemstvo Parliamentarianism
	The New Courts
	Conclusion
2: Trials and Tribulations: The Long 1870s, 1867–81
	Zemstvo Stagnation
	Talking to the People: Priests and Populists
	Forensic Oratory and Its Critics
	The Relaunch of Rhetoric, 1876–81
3: Small Deeds and Muffled Voices: The Age of Counter-Reform, 1881–95
	The Rhetorical Counter-Reform
	The Stirrings of Rhetoric: Educated Society in the 1880s
	Talk and Class: Local Politics and the Spoken Word
	The Theatrical Turn
	The Church
	The Zemstvo and the Rediscovery of Politics
4: The Rise of Political Speech, 1895–1905
	Popular Address: Agitatsiia and Its Alternatives
	The Courtroom as Political Theatre
	Banquet Politics: Oratory and the Mobilization of Educated Society
	Politics as Cacophony: 1905
	Conclusion
5: Public Speaking in the Age of the State Duma
	The Birth of a Parliament
	From Speech to Written Record: The Duma and the Stenographic Transcript
	The Duma as Oratorical Arena
	Rhetoric Rebooted: The Second Duma
	Stolypin’s Parliament: The Third Duma
	From Bolsheviks to Black Hundreds: The Fourth Duma, 1912–14
	Beyond the Duma
	From Cacophony to Unity, and Back Again: 1914–17
	Conclusion
6: Revolutionary Talk, 1917–18
	Authority as Rhetoric: The Kerensky Moment, March–May
	The Soviet
	The Bolshevik Rhetorical Surge
	The Crisis of Kerensky
	After October
	Conclusion
7: Soviet Talk
	Speech as Self-Empowerment and Civic Obligation
	The Transcript of Soviet Life: The Birth of a Soviet Stenographic Profession
	Speech, Stenography, and the Bolshevik Public Sphere
	Conclusion: The Rhetoric of Stalinism
Epilogue
Bibliography
	Main periodicals consulted
	Other primary sources
	Secondary works cited
Index