Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-435) and index
Contents:
Introduction to the 2003 Edition: Russian Pop Fiction Redux -- Uses of Literacy -- Primary Schooling -- The Literature of the Lubok -- Periodicals, Installment Adventures, and Potboilers -- Bandits: Ideas of Freedom and Order -- Nationalism and National Identity -- Science and Superstition -- Success -- The Educated Response: Literature for the People