1. Cited in M. Kort (1985) The Soviet Colossus: the Rise and Fall of the USSR (New York: M.E. Sharpe), p. 125.
2. M. Lewin (1985) The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Inter War Russia (New York: Pantheon Books).
3. A good recent overview of this period can be found in T. Weeks (2011) Across the Revolutionary Divide: Russia and the USSR, 1861–1945 (Malden, MA, and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell).
4. J. Brooks (1985) When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861– 1917 (Princeton: Princeton University Press);
5. B. Eklof (1986) Russian Peasant Schools: Officialdom, Village Culture and Popular Pedagogy, 1861–1914 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press).