Author: Friedberg, Maurice
Title: Russian Classics in Soviet Jackets
Description: New York, Columbia University Press, 1962. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xviii, 228 pp. Textual tables. Minor rubbing,binding spine heavily spotted, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Publishing & Public Opinion; The Early Publishing Fate of the Classics; Publication of the Russian Classics by Government-Owned Firms; Official Attitudes toward the Russian Classics; The Russian Classics and the Soviet Readers; "Bourgeois" Literature in a "Socialist" Society; Appendices: Book Output Statistics; Library Holdings in the USSR; Printing of All Types of Literature; Publication of Prerevolutionary Literature; The Tolstoy Jubilee Edition: A Profile; The Russian Classics in Soviet Criticism: A Soviet Lampoon.

Keywords: Publishing History, Soviet Union, Russian Literature, Literary Criticism, Russia, Communist, Cultural Policy, Printing, Publishers