Eurasian Studies Library – serie
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13 produkter
Imagining the Future in Russia's February Revolution of 1917: Instant Voices in the Press Across the Empire
Inbunden, 2027
1709 kr
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State Building and Conflict Resolution in the Caucasus
Inbunden, 2010
2673 kr
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State building processes in the Caucasus are influenced by the culture of the Caucasus, and previous experiences with state building after World War I. The conflicts which erupted at the time have influenced territorial claims. The role of foreign powers as Russia, the United States, Turkey, …
Tsar’s Abolitionists
The Slave Trade in the Caucasus and Its Suppression
Av Liubov Kurtynova-D'Herlugnan
Inbunden, 2010
2553 kr
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This book presents a well-documented and important analysis of slavery and slave trade in the Caucasus within the fascinating contexts of Russian empire-building and emerging imperial identity of the Russian state as well as of the local political strategies of Caucasian political actors.The author …
Discordant Neighbours: A Reassessment of the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South Ossetian Conflicts
Inbunden, 2013
2647 kr
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The 2008 Georgian-Russian war focused the world’s attention on the Caucasus. South Ossetia and Abkhazia had been de facto independent since the early 1990s. However, Russia’s granting of recognition on 26 August 2008 changed regional dynamics.The Caucasus is one of the most ethnically diverse areas …
Myth of the Masters Revived
The Occult Lives of Nikolai and Elena Roerich
Inbunden, 2014
2943 kr
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This book examines the lives of the famous Russian painter, thinker, and mystic Nikolai Roerich and his wife, Elena Roerich, the “mother” of Agni Yoga esoteric teaching. Extensively researched, it focuses on the couple’s spiritual quest, resulting in their gradual transformation under the influence …
Communism and Consumerism
The Soviet Alternative to the Affluent Society
Av Timo Vihavainen, Elena Bogdanova
Inbunden, 2015
2012 kr
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Consumption in Russia and the former USSR has been lately studied as regards the pre-revolutionary and early Soviet period. The history of Soviet consumption and the Soviet variety of consumerism in the 1950s-1990s has hardly been studied at all. This book concentrates on the late Soviet period but …
Quest for Forbidden Lands
Nikolai Przhevalskii and his Followers on Inner Asian Tracks
Av Alexandre I. Andreyev, Mikhail Baskhanov m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2615 kr
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The Quest for Forbidden Lands: Nikolai Przhevalskii and his Followers on Inner Asian Tracks is a collection of biographical essays of outstanding Russian explorers of Inner Asia of the late nineteenth – early twentieth century, Nikolai Przhevalskii, Vsevolod Roborovskii, Mikhail Pevtsov, Petr …
Reign of Terror: Ivan IV
Inbunden, 2015
4485 kr
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Ruslan Grigor'evitch Skrynnikov unfolds the drama of terror under Ivan the Terrible and his oprichnina. He uses new kinds of evidence paying close attention to primary sources. The conflicts between Ivan and the gentry, the crushing of Novgorod autonomy, the ways in which Ivan interpreted his …
Being Muslim in Central Asia
Practices, Politics, and Identities
Inbunden, 2018
2235 kr
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This volume explores the changing place of Islam in contemporary Central Asia, understanding religion as a “societal shaper” – a roadmap for navigating quickly evolving social and cultural values. Islam can take on multiple colors and identities, from a purely transcendental faith in God to a …
Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities
Inbunden, 2017
2056 kr
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Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities is a book about a cosmopolitan city written by a cosmopolitan scholar with a literary flair. Evrydiki Sifneos conceives Odessa as more of a fin-de siècle east Mediterranean port-metropolis than as a provincial port-city of the Russian Empire in the …
Making Ethnicity in Southern Bessarabia
Tracing the Histories of an Ambiguous Concept in a Contested Land
Inbunden, 2019
1948 kr
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In Making Ethnicity, Simon Schlegel offers a history of ethnicity and its political uses in southern Bessarabia, a region that has long been at the crossroads of powerful forces: in the 19th century between the Russian and Ottoman Empires, since World War I between the Soviet Union and Romania, and …
Pillars of the Profession
The Correspondence of Richard Pipes and Marc Raeff
Inbunden, 2018
2378 kr
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Richard Pipes and Marc Raeff were two of the most prolific and influential historians of Russia that America ever produced. They met at Harvard in 1946 and went on, for most of the following six decades, to debate history, share ideas, comment on each other's work, and inspire one another …
Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia
Inbunden, 2018
2114 kr
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In Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia scholars scrutinise developments in official symbolical, cultural and social policies as well as the contradictory trajectories of important cultural, social and intellectual trends in Russian society after the year 2000. Engaging experts on …
