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Scenarios of Power
Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy from Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II - New Abridged One-Volume Edition
Häftad, 2006
703 kr
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This new and abridged edition of Scenarios of Power is a concise version of Richard Wortman's award-winning study of Russian monarchy from the seventeenth century until 1917. The author breaks new ground by showing how imperial ceremony and imagery were not simply displays of the majesty of the …
Iuzovka and Revolution, Volume I
Life and Work in Russia's Donbass, 1869-1924
Häftad, 2014
641 kr
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In 1870 the Welsh ironmaster John James Hughes left his successful career in England and settled in the barren and underpopulated Donbass region of the Ukrainian steppe to found the town of Iuzovka and build a large steel plant and coal mine. Theodore Friedgut tells the remarkable story of the …
Reforming Rural Russia
State, Local Society, and National Politics, 1855-1914
Häftad, 2014
624 kr
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As he examines administrative reform of Russian rural local government between the abolition of serfdom and World War I, Francis William Wcislo takes as his theme the repeated attempts of tsarist statesmen to restructure the most critical mediating link between the autocratic state and a rapidly …
Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin
Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 1917-1941
Häftad, 2015
641 kr
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From the Soviet technical intelligentsia emerged more than three quarters of recent Politburo members, including Brezhnev, Kosygin, and Podgorny. The largest single group of dissenters, including Grigorenko, Sakharov, and Solzhenitsyn, have also been members. Originally published in 1978. The …
Autobiographical Statements in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
Häftad, 2014
1047 kr
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The fifteen essays in this volume explore the extraordinary range and diversity of the autobiographical mode in twentieth-century Russian literature from various critical perspectives. They will whet the appetite of readers interested in penetrating beyond the canonical texts of Russian literature. …
Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution
Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University
Häftad, 2014
720 kr
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Whereas most Soviet and American scholars of the Russian Revolution have emphasized the great leaders and the great events of 1917, Diane Koenker reverses this trend in a study of the Russian working class. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand …
Political Participation in the USSR
Häftad, 2014
1129 kr
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Theodore H. Friedgut scrutinizes mass political participation in the Soviet system, examining in detail the electoral process, the local councils, and the neighborhood committees from 1957 to the present. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand …
Oblomov and his Creator
Life and Art of Ivan Goncharov
Av Milton Ehre
Häftad, 2015
534 kr
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Goncharov's novels have been popular in Russia since their publication, and Oblomov, the central character of his most famous novel, has become the prototype of a fat and lazy man. Milton Ehre offers new interpretations of the complex personality of Goncharov and shows how in many ways Oblomov was …
Mayakovsky
A Poet in the Revolution
Häftad, 2015
745 kr
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An absorbing portrait of an extraordinary man, an analysis of the work of a great Russian poet, and the evocation of a crucial period in Russian cultural history--all are combined in Edward J. Brown's literary biography of Vladimir Mayakovsky. It is the only book to reveal the whole Mayakovsky, not …
Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party, 1927-1932
Häftad, 2015
983 kr
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No other research organization dominates the field of science in its country to the degree that the Soviet Academy of Sciences does. The coming to power of the Bolsheviks in 1917 presented Russian science with a new governmental attitude toward the place of science in national life. The Soviet …
Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party, 1927-1932
Inbunden, 2016
2603 kr
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No other research organization dominates the field of science in its country to the degree that the Soviet Academy of Sciences does. The coming to power of the Bolsheviks in 1917 presented Russian science with a new governmental attitude toward the place of science in national life. The Soviet …
1905 in St. Petersburg
Labor, Society, and Revolution
Inbunden, 1989
1110 kr
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This account of the St. Petersburg labor movement during the First Russian Revolution focuses on the sources and meaning of the extraordinary explosion of labor militancy in 1905 - a year that saw more striking workers than ever before in Russian history, almost a quarter of them in the capital. In …
