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Red Star
The First Bolshevik Utopia
Av Alexander Bogdanov, Loren R. Graham m. fl.
Häftad, 1984
225 kr
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"[A] surprisingly moving story." —The New Yorker"Bogdanov's novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it." —Slavic Review"Bogdanov's imaginative predictions for his utopia are both …
Revolutionary Dreams
Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
Inbunden, 1989
2045 kr
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This book discusses utopian ideals and experimentation before, during, and after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Richard Stites grounds his study in the larger field of Russia's social, intellectual, and cultural history, examining party programmes, economic policy, and moral practices to recreate …
Revolutionary Dreams
Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
Häftad, 1992
989 kr
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Stite's book received the 1990 Vucinich Prize, awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for the best book published in 1989 in the field of Russian and East European studies."The presentation is dynamic, fascinating, indeed brilliant, as well as fully expert....It …
Revolutionary Dreams
Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
E-bok, 1988
1303 kr
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The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range of social experiments which found expression, in the first decade of the Russian revolution, in festival, symbol, science fiction, city planning, and …
The Four Horsemen
Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe
Häftad, 2020
448 kr
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In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia; and national independence to the Greeks. The men who launched these exploits from Andalusia to the snowy …
Revolutionary Dreams
Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
E-bok, 1991
554 kr
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The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range of social experiments which found expression, in the first decade of the Russian revolution, in festival, symbol, science fiction, city planning, and …
The Four Horsemen
Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe
Inbunden, 2014
921 kr
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The 1820s marked a revolutionary moment in European history. Uprisings during this decade marked the last horseback-mounted epics where officers led their men from provincial towns in the hopes of reaching the capital and overturning the old order. Scholarly work has also stressed the great powers …
Four Horsemen
Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe
E-bok, 2014
353 kr
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In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia; and national independence to the Greeks. The men who launched these exploits from Andalusia to the snowy …
Four Horsemen
Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe
E-bok, 2014
353 kr
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In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia; and national independence to the Greeks. The men who launched these exploits from Andalusia to the snowy …
Russia in the Era of NEP
Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture
Av Sheila Fitzpatrick, Alexander Rabinowitch m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
358 kr
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" . . . a comprehensive look at an enigmatic era . . . " —Choice"This provocative collection of essays certainly takes some of the polish off Soviet socialism's golden age." —Journal of Interdisciplinary History"The authors and editors of this splendid volume deserve great praise. Their work moves …
Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia
Häftad, 1995
256 kr
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"This lively and often moving collection of essays is an important contribution to Western scholarship on Soviet society and culture during the Second World War. . . . [a] straightforward but lively description of cultural life, unhampered by excessive interpretation or cultural theory. For all …
Mass Culture in Soviet Russia
Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917–1953
Av James Von Geldern, James Von Geldern m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
391 kr
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This anthology offers a rich array of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, comic routines, and folklore to offer a close look at the mass culture that was consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. Both state-sponsored cultural forms and the unofficial …
Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia
The Pleasure and the Power
Häftad, 2008
903 kr
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Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in society’s value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a groundbreaking history of visual and performing arts in the last decades of serfdom. …
European Culture in the Great War
The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 1914-1918
Av Aviel Roshwald, Richard Stites
Häftad, 2002
838 kr
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It is commonplace to refer to the First World War as an historical watershed, but the nature of that great cataclysm's impact upon European society and culture remains a hotly debated topic. Many recent works have dealt with the Great War's role in shaping artistic and intellectual modernism and …
Russian Popular Culture
Entertainment and Society since 1900
Häftad, 1992
435 kr
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This book presents a side of Russian life that is largely unknown to the West - the world of popular culture. By surveying detective and science fiction, popular songs, jokes, box office movie hits, stage, radio and television, Professor Richard Stites introduces the people and cultural products …
Women's Liberation Movement in Russia
Feminism, Nihilsm, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930 - Expanded Edition
Häftad, 1978
681 kr
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Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of …
Women's Liberation Movement in Russia
Feminism, Nihilsm, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930 - Expanded Edition
E-bok, 2021
955 kr
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Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of …
