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Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1997. First Edition (Number Line With 1 Present). Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo., pp 250, maroon cloth, illustrated, index. -- Binding a little slanted and lightly bowed. Table of Contents: Stovelore in Russian folklife / Food in Catherinian St. Petersburg / Forced hunger and rational restraint in the Russian peasant diet / Practice and significance of fasting in Russian / Peasant culture at the turn of the century / Tolstoy's way of no flesh; abstinence, vegetarianism, and Christian physiology / Highlights of Russian vegetarianism at the turn of the century / Appetite for power; predators, carnivores, and cannibals in Dostoevsky's fiction / Strawberries and chocolate: Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam, and the plight of the hungry poet / Communal dining and state cafeterias in Moscow and Petrograd, 1917-1921 / Beginnings of Soviet culinary arts / Food and national identity in Soviet Armenia / Food as art : painting in late Soviet Russia.
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Food in Russian History and Culture Hardcover - 1997
by Musya Glants (Editor); Joyce Toomre (Editor)
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- Title Food in Russian History and Culture
- Author Musya Glants (Editor); Joyce Toomre (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 250
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Indiana University Press
- Date 1997-09
- ISBN 9780253332523 / 0253332524
- Library of Congress subjects Russia (Federation) - Social life and customs, Food habits - Russia (Federation) - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96041786
- Dewey Decimal Code 394.120
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