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On Reading and Not Reading Today: A Commentary on L. Borusiak's Article
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Dubin, Boris – Russian Education and Society, 2012
In this commentary, the author stresses that reading habits in Russia have changed since the Soviet era, and the more intellectual journals and magazines in particular have lost their importance. Audiences for books and magazines have fragmented, and there are fewer sources of commonly shared information and ideas than was true a few decades ago.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Age Differences, Periodicals
Reading as a Value among Young Russian Intellectuals
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Borusiak, Liubov' – Russian Education and Society, 2012
It is acknowledged that the value of reading has gone down in today's Russian society, and this is rated as unequivocally negative. Instead of "the most well-read country in the world," Russia is now called a "society of TV viewers" by the some observers; it is not a nation of independent thinkers but passive objects of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Intellectual Experience, Cultural Maintenance
Russian Folk and Animal Tales.
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Povsic, Frances F. – Reading Teacher, 1981
This second in a series of annotated bibliographies of books from and about Russia provides annotations for more than 70 books containing Russian folk and animal tales. (FL)
Descriptors: Animals, Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature
Russia: Children's Fiction in English for Elementary School Children.
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Povsic, Frances F. – Reading Teacher, 1982
The third in a series of articles presenting annotations of books from and about the Soviet Union. (FL)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness