Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century

Winner of the AATSEEL Best Book in Literary Studies of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

Recording Russia examines scenes of listening to "the people" across a variety of texts by Russian writers and European travelers to Russia. Gabriella Safran challenges readings of these works that essentialize Russia as a singular place where communication between the classes is consistently fraught, arguing instead that, as in the West, the sense of separation o...