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Acknowledgments vii Introduction 3 Chapter One Apocalyptic Riders, World Souls, Westernized Boys, and Russian Girls: Before 1900 20 Chapter Two Wooing “My Rus’! My Wife!”: (Pre-)Revolutionary Russia 42 Chapter Three Virgin Russia Meets Lenin and Stalin: The Soviet Years 112 Chapter Four Russia’s Orgasm, or Marrying Putin: Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture 152 Conclusion 223 Notes 227 Bibliography 283 Index 315 Contents ...

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