Stephen Lovell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Lovell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lovell |
| SIGNATURE | LOVELL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-4447-7788 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Voting in the Graphosphere
This contribution offers an overview of electoral practice in the Russian Empire up to 1917. The voting procedure that became standard from the 1770s onwards did not involve written ballots. But there was still an extensive graphosphere of electoral documentation, petitions, and protests. By attending to these written traces, we can observe how a pre-modern tradition of voting as community obligation evolved in the late imperial era to incorporat…
The Parliamentarisation of the Soviet Union
How did the Soviet Union, a country with a profoundly anti-parliamentary political tradition and a one-party regime firmly in place, so suddenly take the path of contested elections and public, deliberative politics in the late 1980s? This article offers both long- and short-term answers to this question. Looking back to the 1950s and 1960s, it shows that the Soviet Union and the Eastern European people’s democracies were not entirely anti-parlia…
The Voice
This chapter argues that the spoken word had special significance in the Russian literary tradition due to censorship and other constraints on the printed word, and also because of the cultural chasm between a small, educated elite and a weakly literate majority. It begins with Baroque rhetoric in the eighteenth century before examining the role of oral performance and rhetoric in the Romantic era. It then shows a reinvigoration of literature’s o…
Writing History in Late Imperial Russia
Stalin and the Fate of Europe
It is hard to recover any sense of open-endedness and possibility in the early phase of the Cold War: the Red Army had its boots on the ground in Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, and Berlin, and Stalinist rhetoric rose to a new pitch of “anticosmopolitan” xenophobia. But Naimark, with great perspicacity, insists on a more complex picture. He draws a portrait of a “hyperrealist” Stalin, who had no interest in provoking the Western allies and declined …
How Russia Learned to Talk
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 became more lively and vernacular, while the Orthodox Church exhorted its priests to become better preachers. Although the tsarist government attempted to restrain Russia’s emerging orators, the empire was e…
Eingegangene Bücher
Susanne Fusso. Editing Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy
Sarah Davies and James Harris, Stalin’s World
Stenography and the public sphere in modern Russia
Stenography brought about an unsung revolution in the modern world: for the first time ever, writing could keep up with speech*. In Russia, the adoption of this technology came later than in France or Britain, but it was concentrated in time and tied to a particular civilizational project: the Great Reforms launched in the 1860s, with their key values of glasnost ́ and publichnost ́. Over the decades that followed, stenography would play an impor…
Looking at Listening in Late Imperial Russia
Broadcasting Bolshevik
Propaganda was always a key preoccupation of the Soviet regime and it was not limited to the printed word. Public speaking – whether in meetings and lectures or on the radio – had a prominent place in the Soviet version of modernity. From the early 1920s onwards, propagandists, journalists and performers debated how best to use the spoken word: what was the balance to be struck between oratory and information, edifcation and theatricality, author…
Finding a Mate in Late Tsarist Russia
This article examines a hitherto unstudied source – the marriage newspapers of late tsarist Russia – for the light it can shed on two important but elusive subjects for historical inquiry. First, the history of marriage in an era of astonishingly rapid social and economic change. Second, the history of social identities. It is argued that the small and apparently trivial texts of marriage advertisements offer a rare opportunity to see the languag…
Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia
Empire of Nations
Russian Nationalism and the Politics of Soviet Literature
Vlada Traven, La datcha en Russie de 1917 à nos jours
This book presents a clear and well-informed account of dacha settlement around Moscow in the Soviet era. Vlada Traven contends that the history of suburban and exurban development offers a rewarding perspective on the Soviet experience. She starts with the striking idea that the “normal” process of suburbanization around Russia’s major cities was blocked by the Revolution. In the early twentieth century, dacha settlements were rapidly being conv…
Les enjeux politiques du vieillissement en Russie soviétique
Le régime soviétique fut l'aboutissement d'une révolution placée sous le signe de la jeunesse. Mais il subsista sept décennies durant et se caractérisa par la succession de cohortes entrées dans l'histoire à différents moments. Cet article s'intéresse aux processus ayant permis au socialisme soviétique de s'accorder du vieillissement concomitant de ses élites et de la société dans son ensemble. L'auteur montre que l'enchaînement des années ne fut…
Finitude at the Fin de Siècle
Bribery and Blat in Russia
The Russian Reading Revolution
Between Arcadia and Suburbia
In the last few prerevolutionary decades, dachas (summer houses) became an amenity accessible to wide sections of the population of Russia's two main cities. Dachas offered middle-income urbanites unprecedented scope to free themselves from the workplace, cultivate new lifestyles, and create new communities and subcultures. Dachas thus constitute an important element in the history of late imperial leisure, entertainment, consumption, everyday li…
The Making of the Stalin-Era Dacha
Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts
Introduction: boundaries of the spectacular Catriona Kelly and Stephen Lovell Part I. The Arts Reflected in Literature: 1. Defining the face: observations on Dostoevskii's creative processes Konstantin Barsht 2. Painting and autobiography: Anna Prismatova's Pesok and Anna Akhmatova's Epicheskie motivy 3. Picture windows: the art of Andrei Siniavskii Jane Grayson 4. Mikhail Zoshchenko's shadow operas Alexander Zholkovsky Part II. Adaptations, Coll…
The Russian Reading Revolution
Of all of Soviet cultural myths, none was more resilient than the belief that the USSR had the world's greatest readers. This book explains how the 'Russian reading myth' took hold in the 1920s and 19
Broadcasting Bolshevik
Propaganda was always a key preoccupation of the Soviet regime and it was not limited to the printed word. Public speaking – whether in meetings and lectures or on the radio – had a prominent place in the Soviet version of modernity. From the early 1920s onwards, propagandists, journalists and performers debated how best to use the spoken word: what was the balance to be struck between oratory and information, edifcation and theatricality, author…
Stenography and the public sphere in modern Russia
Stenography brought about an unsung revolution in the modern world: for the first time ever, writing could keep up with speech*. In Russia, the adoption of this technology came later than in France or Britain, but it was concentrated in time and tied to a particular civilizational project: the Great Reforms launched in the 1860s, with their key values of glasnost ́ and publichnost ́. Over the decades that followed, stenography would play an impor…
Finding a Mate in Late Tsarist Russia
This article examines a hitherto unstudied source – the marriage newspapers of late tsarist Russia – for the light it can shed on two important but elusive subjects for historical inquiry. First, the history of marriage in an era of astonishingly rapid social and economic change. Second, the history of social identities. It is argued that the small and apparently trivial texts of marriage advertisements offer a rare opportunity to see the languag…
The Making of the Stalin-Era Dacha
Finitude at the Fin de Siècle
Between Arcadia and Suburbia
In the last few prerevolutionary decades, dachas (summer houses) became an amenity accessible to wide sections of the population of Russia's two main cities. Dachas offered middle-income urbanites unprecedented scope to free themselves from the workplace, cultivate new lifestyles, and create new communities and subcultures. Dachas thus constitute an important element in the history of late imperial leisure, entertainment, consumption, everyday li…
Ogonek
THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS a brief history of Ogonek from the start of perestroika to the present (December 1995).1 This magazine will be treated as a case-study in the transformation of culture, public discourse and the media. The past few years in Russia have given cultural commentators considerable food for thought, and intellectuals have not been slow to respond with such notions as the struggle of high and low, post-modernism, and the crisis of c…
Publishing and the book trade in the Post‐Stalin Era
CULTURE AND THE MARKET have never been on the friendliest terms in Russia, but it is worth remembering that they have had a troubled relationship in many other places as well.' In Western Europe, for example, the expansion of the book market, along with the ensuing democratisation of print culture, has often proved problematic: not only does it tend to meet both political and economic resistance,2 it also provokes the doom-laden discourse of sect…
The Russian Reading Revolution
Of all of Soviet cultural myths, none was more resilient than the belief that the USSR had the world's greatest readers. This book explains how the 'Russian reading myth' took hold in the 1920s and 19
Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts
Introduction: boundaries of the spectacular Catriona Kelly and Stephen Lovell Part I. The Arts Reflected in Literature: 1. Defining the face: observations on Dostoevskii's creative processes Konstantin Barsht 2. Painting and autobiography: Anna Prismatova's Pesok and Anna Akhmatova's Epicheskie motivy 3. Picture windows: the art of Andrei Siniavskii Jane Grayson 4. Mikhail Zoshchenko's shadow operas Alexander Zholkovsky Part II. Adaptations, Coll…
The Russian Reading Revolution
Between Arcadia and Suburbia
In the last few prerevolutionary decades, dachas (summer houses) became an amenity accessible to wide sections of the population of Russia's two main cities. Dachas offered middle-income urbanites unprecedented scope to free themselves from the workplace, cultivate new lifestyles, and create new communities and subcultures. Dachas thus constitute an important element in the history of late imperial leisure, entertainment, consumption, everyday li…
The Making of the Stalin-Era Dacha
Bribery and Blat in Russia
Finitude at the Fin de Siècle
Vlada Traven, La datcha en Russie de 1917 à nos jours
This book presents a clear and well-informed account of dacha settlement around Moscow in the Soviet era. Vlada Traven contends that the history of suburban and exurban development offers a rewarding perspective on the Soviet experience. She starts with the striking idea that the “normal” process of suburbanization around Russia’s major cities was blocked by the Revolution. In the early twentieth century, dacha settlements were rapidly being conv…
Les enjeux politiques du vieillissement en Russie soviétique
Le régime soviétique fut l'aboutissement d'une révolution placée sous le signe de la jeunesse. Mais il subsista sept décennies durant et se caractérisa par la succession de cohortes entrées dans l'histoire à différents moments. Cet article s'intéresse aux processus ayant permis au socialisme soviétique de s'accorder du vieillissement concomitant de ses élites et de la société dans son ensemble. L'auteur montre que l'enchaînement des années ne fut…
Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia
Empire of Nations
Russian Nationalism and the Politics of Soviet Literature
Finding a Mate in Late Tsarist Russia
This article examines a hitherto unstudied source – the marriage newspapers of late tsarist Russia – for the light it can shed on two important but elusive subjects for historical inquiry. First, the history of marriage in an era of astonishingly rapid social and economic change. Second, the history of social identities. It is argued that the small and apparently trivial texts of marriage advertisements offer a rare opportunity to see the languag…
Looking at Listening in Late Imperial Russia
Broadcasting Bolshevik
Propaganda was always a key preoccupation of the Soviet regime and it was not limited to the printed word. Public speaking – whether in meetings and lectures or on the radio – had a prominent place in the Soviet version of modernity. From the early 1920s onwards, propagandists, journalists and performers debated how best to use the spoken word: what was the balance to be struck between oratory and information, edifcation and theatricality, author…
Stenography and the public sphere in modern Russia
Stenography brought about an unsung revolution in the modern world: for the first time ever, writing could keep up with speech*. In Russia, the adoption of this technology came later than in France or Britain, but it was concentrated in time and tied to a particular civilizational project: the Great Reforms launched in the 1860s, with their key values of glasnost ́ and publichnost ́. Over the decades that followed, stenography would play an impor…
Sarah Davies and James Harris, Stalin’s World
Susanne Fusso. Editing Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy
How Russia Learned to Talk
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 became more lively and vernacular, while the Orthodox Church exhorted its priests to become better preachers. Although the tsarist government attempted to restrain Russia’s emerging orators, the empire was e…
Eingegangene Bücher
Stalin and the Fate of Europe
It is hard to recover any sense of open-endedness and possibility in the early phase of the Cold War: the Red Army had its boots on the ground in Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, and Berlin, and Stalinist rhetoric rose to a new pitch of “anticosmopolitan” xenophobia. But Naimark, with great perspicacity, insists on a more complex picture. He draws a portrait of a “hyperrealist” Stalin, who had no interest in provoking the Western allies and declined …
Writing History in Late Imperial Russia
The Voice
This chapter argues that the spoken word had special significance in the Russian literary tradition due to censorship and other constraints on the printed word, and also because of the cultural chasm between a small, educated elite and a weakly literate majority. It begins with Baroque rhetoric in the eighteenth century before examining the role of oral performance and rhetoric in the Romantic era. It then shows a reinvigoration of literature’s o…
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