@article{bibcite_14520, author = {Susan Smith-Peter}, title = {Books Behind the Altar: Religion, Village Libraries, and the Moscow Agricultural Society}, year = {2004}, journal = {Russian History}, volume = {31}, note = {
Describes efforts by the Moscow Agricultural Society and Andrei Ivanovich Chikhachev to establish rural folk libraries in Russia in the 1840-1860s with a focus on providing works on religion, agriculture and the best of Russian literature.
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