THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF MODERNIZATION OF SIBERIANS’ CIRCLE OF READING IN THE LATE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES
Y.V. Timofeeva
State Public Scientific Technical Library SB RAS, 15 Voshod str., Novosibirsk, 630102, Russian Federation
Keywords: модернизация, чтение, секуляризация чтения, беллетристика, научно-популярная литература, периодические издания, книжная культура, modernization, reading, reading secularization, fiction, popular scientific literature, periodicals, book culture
Abstract
The relevance of studying the history of reading is determined by its huge educational, enlightening, developing, upbringing potential, which plays an important role in forming a person, society, and state. Investigation of reading of the late XIX - early XX centuries is important to define the scales and rates of the Russian modernization, and factors accelerating or slowing it. For the first time in historiography modernization of Siberians’ circle of reading in the late XIX - early XX centuries becomes a subject of an independent research. The paper objective is the historical characteristic of modernization of Siberians’ circle of reading in the late imperial period. The theory of traditional society’s modernization became the research methodological basis. Modernization is understood as complex of innovative process to proceed from an agrarian traditional society to modern industrial one covering all spheres of public life, including cultural. The study is carried out in compliance with the principles of historicism, objectivity, consistency. The author applies common scientific approaches: terminological, structural and statistical analysis, inductive, deductive ones; in addition uses special historical methods: source study, historical and comparative, chronological ones, localization of historic facts. The paper represents basic principles of the theory of modernization of reading. Obtained data allow specifying and adding a regional and all-Russian picture of reading in the late imperial period; characterizing rates and scales of modernization of the Siberians’ reading. The research results represent knowledge of main segments of the circle of reading and their volumes ratio, reader’s preferences of Siberians, where the first place was steadily given to fiction, while religious, spiritual and moral literature was gradually removed to the last place, giving way to historical, geographical, economic, social and political editions, periodicals.
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