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278 produkter
Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Av Vera Figner
Häftad, 1991
236 kr
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Born into the comforts of the Russian aristocracy in 1852, Vera Figner as a child harbored the fairy-tale dream of one day becoming tsarina. By the age of thirty-two, however, Figner had become one of Russia's most vocal revolutionaries, a terrorist and member of the Executive Committee of the …
Disenchanted Wanderer
The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev
Av Glenn Cronin
Inbunden, 2021
680 kr
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Disenchanted Wanderer is the first comprehensive English-language study in over half a century of the life and ideas of Konstantin Nikolaevich Leontiev (1831–1891), one of the most important thinkers in nineteenth-century Russia on political, social, and religious matters. Glenn Cronin gives the …
Stories from a Siberian Village
Häftad, 1996
364 kr
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A cultural phenomenon in his day-an award-winning film director and actor who also wrote novels, plays, and movie scripts-Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974) is renowned for his mastery of the short story. Credited with revitalizing the short story as a genre in Russian literature, he was posthumously …
From Realism to the Silver Age
New Studies in Russian Artistic Culture
Av Margaret Samu, Rosalind Blakesley
Häftad, 2014
587 kr
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This volume of thirteen essays presents rigorous new research by western and Russian scholars on Russian art of the nienteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Over More than three decades after the publication of Elizabeth Valkenier's pioneering monograph, Russian Realist Art, this impressive …
Siberia on Fire
Stories and Essays
Häftad, 1989
364 kr
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"Siberia on Fire" brings together some of the best stories and essays by Valentin Rasputin, widely regarded as the finest writer in the Soviet Union today. Although the people and places that make up his fiction are characteristically Siberian, Rasputin's broad appeal and international recognition …
Bolshevik Sexual Forensics
Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917–1939
Av Dan Healey
Häftad, 2022
330 kr
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In an effort to modernize criminal and civil investigations, early Bolsheviks gave forensic doctors—most of whom had been trained under the tsarist regime—new authority over issues of sexuality. Revolutionaries believed that forensic medicine could provide scientific and objective solutions to …
Revolution of Moral Consciousness
Nietzsche in Russian Literature, 1890–1914
Av Edith Clowes
Häftad, 2018
316 kr
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No other thinker so engaged the Russian cultural imagination of the early twentieth century as did Friedrich Nietzche. The Revolution of Moral Consciousness shows how Nietzschean thought influenced the brilliant resurgence of literary life that started in the 1890s and continued for four decades. …
Origins of Modern Russian Education
An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei Uvarov, 1786–1855
Inbunden, 1985
501 kr
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As minister of education and president of the Academy of Sciences, Count Sergei Uvarov was one of the most important statesmen in nineteenth-century Russia. But, because he has often been labeled as a reactionary and sycophant, his ideas and policies have tended to be dismissed as examples of the …
Coal and Politics in Late Imperial Russia
Memoirs of a Russian Mining Engineer
Inbunden, 1990
544 kr
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Seeking God
The Recovery of Religious Identity in Orthodox Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia
Inbunden, 1993
514 kr
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Originating in the symposium on The Recovery of Religious Identity in the Soviet Union, held at Arizona State U. in March 1991, this volume examines the roots and recovery of Orthodox religious culture in Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia. The volume is divided into three major sections: popular religi
Russia's Workers in Transition
Labor, Management, and the State Under Gorbachev and Yeltsin
Inbunden, 1999
587 kr
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A historical and empirical study of Russian economic and social policy, tracing long-term evolutions across the Soviet and Russian periods. Circumstances explain the failure of transition policies that worked elsewhere, leading Christensen to re-examine accepted post-communist transition theory.
Speaking in Soviet Tongues
Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia
Inbunden, 2003
631 kr
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From the classical dialogues of Plato to current political correctness, manipulating language to advance a particular set of values and ideas has been a time-honored practice. During times of radical social and political change, the terms of debate themselves become sharply contested: how people …
His Kingdom Come
Orthodox Pastorship and Social Activism in Revolutionary Russia
Inbunden, 2007
1641 kr
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Jennifer Hedda analyzes the ideas and activities of the parish clergy serving in St. Petersburg, the capital of imperial Russia, in order to discover how the Russian Orthodox Church responded theologically and pastorally to the profound social, economic, and cultural changes that transformed Russia …
Dictatorship of Sex
Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses
Häftad, 2007
568 kr
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The Dictatorship of Sex explores the attempts to define and control sexual behavior in the years following the Russian Revolution. It is the first book to examine Soviet "sexual enlightenment," a program of popular health and lifestyle advice intended to establish a model of sexual conduct for the …
Moscow Business Elite
A Social and Cultural Portrait of Two Generations, 1840–1905
Inbunden, 1984
500 kr
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In Stalin's Shadow
Angelo Tasca and the Crisis of the Left in Italy and France, 1910–1945
Inbunden, 1986
486 kr
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Russia Gathers Her Jews
The Origins of the "Jewish Question" in Russia, 1772–1825
Inbunden, 1986
529 kr
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Klier's analysis of the motivations behind government policies and attitudes is well documented and convincing.... [An] important and well-researched monograph.― The Journal of Modern HistoryThis classic study by the late John Doyle Klier is considered a seminal text in modern Jewish history by one …
Revolution of Moral Consciousness
Nietzsche in Russian Literature, 1890–1914
Av Edith Clowes
Inbunden, 1988
470 kr
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No other thinker so engaged the Russian cultural imagination of the early twentieth century as did Friedrich Nietzche. The Revolution of Moral Consciousness shows how Nietzschean thought influenced the brilliant resurgence of literary life that started in the 1890s and continued for four decades. …
Imperial Russia, 1700–1917
State, Society, Opposition
Av Ezra Mendelsohn, Marshall Shatz
Inbunden, 1989
573 kr
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Guns for the Tsar
American Technology and the Small Arms Industry in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Inbunden, 1990
528 kr
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Great Reforms
Autocracy, Bureaucracy, and the Politics of Change in Imperial Russia
Inbunden, 1990
1690 kr
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The Great Reforms of the 1860s marked the broadest attempt at social and economic renovation to occur in Russia between the death of Peter the Great in 1725 and the Revolution of 1905. In just more than a decade, imperial reform acts freed Russia's serfs, restructured her courts, established …
Remizov's Fictions, 1900–1921
Av Greta Slobin
Inbunden, 1992
430 kr
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Startlingly original artist and writer, Aleksei Remizov began to make his mark on Russian literature at the turn of the century. Inextricably tied to the rich culture of the Russian Silver Age, Remizov shunned association with any single school, yet his work reflects the many trends and transitions …
Coming to Terms with the Soviet Regime
The "Changing Signposts" Movement Among Russian Émigrés in the Early 1920s
Inbunden, 1994
587 kr
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The Bolshevik takeover in 1917 and the subsequent Civil War drove thousands of Russians into exile. Expecting the Bolshevik dictatorship would soon collapse, they settled in the West, waiting for the moment they could leave their refuges in Berlin, Prague, and Paris and return to their homeland in …
Structures of Society
Imperial Russia's "People of Various Ranks"
Av Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
Inbunden, 1994
500 kr
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A category of persons best defined by what they were not, the raznochintsy-"people of various ranks" or "people of diverse origins"-inhabited the shifting social territory between nobles and serfs in preindustrial Russia. Neither merchants nor clergy nor military servicemen, they may have been by …
Double Deception
Stalin, Hitler, and the Invasion of Russia
Av James Barros, Richard Gregor
Inbunden, 1995
370 kr
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