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Cavalry Maiden
Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars
Häftad, 1989
341 kr
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" . . . sparkles with wit, intelligence and bold characterization." —Women's Review of Books" . . . a ripping yarn . . . admirable translation . . . sensitive introductory essay." —Times Literary Supplement" . . . a remarkable journal worthy of the attention of a wide audience." —Doris Grumbach, …
Classic Russian Cooking
Elena Molokhovets' a Gift to Young Housewives
Häftad, 1998
558 kr
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"Joyce Toomre . . . has accomplished an enormous task, fully on a par with the original author's slave labor. Her extensive preface and her detailed and entertaining notes are marvelous." —Tatyana Tolstaya, New York Review of Books"Classic Russian Cooking is a book that I highly recommend. Joyce …
Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia
The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis
Inbunden, 2013
812 kr
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On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis, a 39-year-old Jewish …
Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia
The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis
Häftad, 2013
266 kr
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On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis, a 39-year-old Jewish …
Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance
Inbunden, 2015
697 kr
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From the time of the Crimean War through the fall of the Tsar, the question of what to do about the Russian empire's large Muslim population was a highly contested issue among educated Russians both inside and outside the government. As formulated in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Muslim …
Russia's Second Revolution
The February 1917 Uprising in Petrograd
Av E.N. Burdzhalov, Donald J. Raleigh
Häftad, 1987
225 kr
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"This beautifully written, serious work is of value to all who are interested in our country's [Russia's] past." —Genrikh Ioffe, Moscow News"This is a serious and mature book on a key event . . . " —History"The book in question is of exceptional value to anyone who cannot read Russian and wishes to …
Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War
Explorations in Social History
Av Diane P. Koenker, William G. Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
312 kr
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"This volume is a valuable source of information that also represents a genuinely collaborative approach to understanding Soviet history. The collection is so rich that every scholar and teacher of Soviet history will want to consult it. Highly recommended." —Choice"Documentation of this …
Russia in the Era of NEP
Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture
Av Sheila Fitzpatrick, Alexander Rabinowitch m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
355 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 …
Russia's Great Reforms, 1855–1881
Av Ben Eklof, John Bushnell m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
225 kr
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"[The book] succeeds remarkably in providing a multifaceted, yet interconnected, analysis of this signal era of modern Russian history and it is heartily recommended." —The HistorianThis volume, the work of an international group of scholars that includes historians from Russia, maps out the major …
Food in Russian History and Culture
Häftad, 1997
399 kr
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". . . the specificity and breadth of this [work] makes it unique. . . . lively reading . . . particularly recommended for academic collections with a strong focus in Russian history." —Library Journal". . . a remarkable new collection of essays . . . The book reads like a literary hybrid of …
Russia's Orient
Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700–1917
Av Daniel R. Brower, Edward J. Lazzerini
Häftad, 1997
312 kr
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" . . . the first study of the Russian Empire in English which attempts in a sophisticated way, using the latest developments in colonial studies, to deal not only with imperial rule but with the mutual encounter with the non-Russian peoples. . . . a new paradigm for looking at the imperial history …
Entertaining Tsarist Russia
Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images from Russian Urban Life, 1779–1917
Av James Von Geldern, Louise McReynolds
Häftad, 1998
395 kr
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This anthology introduces readers to Tsarist Russia's emerging popular and commercial urban culture and the individuals and groups that produced and consumed it. The selections translated here illustrate in colorful detail how the experiences and the composition of Russian society and culture …
Imperial Russia
New Histories for the Empire
Av Jane Burbank, David L. Ransel
Häftad, 1998
338 kr
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"On the basis of the work presented here, one can say that the future of American scholarship on imperial Russia is in good hands." —American Historial Review" . . . innovative and substantive research . . . " —The Russian Review"Anyone wishing to understand the 'state of the field' in Imperial …
Whole Empire Walking
Refugees in Russia During World War I
Häftad, 2005
312 kr
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". . . a signal contribution to a growing literature on a phenomenon that has become tragically pervasive in the 20th century. . . . This highly original account combines exemplary empirical research with the judicious application of diverse methods to explore the far-reaching ramifications of 'a …
Baba and the Comrade
Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia
Häftad, 2000
341 kr
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"Meticulously researched, impressively documented, and engrossingly written, . . . [it] contributes to a long-overdue reconception of the New Economic Policy (NEP). . . ." —Choice" . . . a well-organized, sophisticated analysis of the difficulties involved in attempting to reconcile ideology with …
Till My Tale Is Told
Women's Memoirs of the Gulag
Häftad, 2001
429 kr
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"How extraordinary it is that compassion and tenderness may flourish in the cruellest conditions; how stubbornly and bravely people survive them. This is not a depressing book but an inspiriting and encouraging one." —Doris Lessing"The sixteen life stories are riveting. . . . testimony to the …
Russia's Steppe Frontier
The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800
Häftad, 2004
297 kr
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"Khodarkovsky provides a detailed chronological narrative of Russia's steppe relations, which conveys brilliantly the depth of Moscow's engagement in the world of steppe politics. . . . This is counterbalanced by insightful thematic discussion of the perennial issues involved. . . . Altogether, an …
Polish Encounters, Russian Identity
Av David L. Ransel, Bożena Shallcross
Häftad, 2005
251 kr
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At a time when Poland is emphasizing its distance from Russia, Polish Encounters, Russian Identity points to the historical ties and mutual influences of these two great Slavic peoples. Whether Poland adopted a hostile or a friendly stance toward Russia, the intense responses of Russian thinkers, …
Village Mothers
Three Generations of Change in Russia and Tataria
Häftad, 2005
297 kr
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"[A]n outstanding work of historical ethnography. . . . The book offers wonderful insight into how women created and understood the great changes of the 20th century. It is unique in its scope and its intimate knowledge of rural life." —Russian Review"[A] major contribution to the field. . . . an …
Russia's Sputnik Generation
Soviet Baby Boomers Talk About Their Lives
Häftad, 2006
294 kr
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Russia's Sputnik Generation presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42 in the Russian city of Saratov. Born in 1949/50, these four men and four women belong to the first generation conceived during the Soviet Union's return to "normality" following World War II. Well …
Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
Av Nancy M. Wingfield, Maria Bucur-Deckard
Häftad, 2006
312 kr
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This volume explores the role of gender on both the home and fighting fronts in eastern Europe during World Wars I and II. By using gender as a category of analysis, the authors seek to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the subjective nature of wartime experience and its representations. …
Sacred Stories
Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia
Av Mark D. Steinberg, Heather J. Coleman
Häftad, 2007
342 kr
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Sacred Stories brings together the work of leading scholars writing on the history of religion and religiosity in late imperial Russia during the critical decades preceding the 1917 revolutions. Embodying new research and new methodologies, this book reshapes our understanding of the place of …
Russian Empire
Space, People, Power, 1700-1930
Av Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen
Häftad, 2007
352 kr
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Russian Empire offers new perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. An international team of scholars explores the connections between Russia's expansion over vast territories occupied by people of many ethnicities, …
Russian Merchant's Tale
The Life and Adventures of Ivan Alekseevich Tolchënov, Based on His Diary
Häftad, 2008
289 kr
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Based on the rare diary of an 18th-century Russian provincial merchant, A Russian Merchant's Tale presents a revealing portrait of Russia's little-known commercial class. By recording his daily contacts with a wide array of individuals from lords to laborers for more than 40 years, Ivan Alekseevich …
Russian Folk Art
Häftad, 2011
283 kr
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Russian Folk Art surveys the traditions, styles, and functions of the many objects made by Russian peasant artists and artisans. Placing the objects within the settings in which folk artists worked—the peasant household, the village, and the local market—Alison Hilton discusses the principal media …
Science and Russian Culture in an Age of Revolutions
V. I. Vernadsky and His Scientific School, 1863–1945
Inbunden, 1990
413 kr
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" . . . scholarship of the highest order. . . . Kendall Bailes's book is destined to become a most valuable contribution to our knowledge of Russian and Soviet culture. It is insightful and eloquent." —Douglas R. Weiner" . . . an insightful, richly researched portrait of Vernadsky's life and times …
City in Late Imperial Russia
Inbunden, 1986
471 kr
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" . . . one of the most coherent and unified collaborative works in the field of Russian history." —American Historical Review"This book excels in capturing the colors, tastes, sounds, and smells of Imperial Russia's rapidly growing, ethnically divided cities . . . " —Journal of Interdisciplinary …
Kremlin and the Schoolhouse
Reforming Education in Soviet Russia, 1917-1931
Inbunden, 1991
308 kr
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" . . . an exciting, first-rate contribution to our understanding of Soviet history on several levels . . . and the relationship between tsarist and Soviet educational policies and practices." —Ben Eklof"Larry E. Holmes' book is a fine, expert study of a difficult topic." —The Historian" . . . this …
Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War
Explorations in Social History
Av Diane P. Koenker, William G. Rosenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
500 kr
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"This volume is a valuable source of information that also represents a genuinely collaborative approach to understanding Soviet history. The collection is so rich that every scholar and teacher of Soviet history will want to consult it. Highly recommended." —Choice"Documentation of this …
Youth in Revolutionary Russia
Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents
Inbunden, 2000
401 kr
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Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, DelinquentsAnne E. GorsuchA vivid account of Bolshevik efforts to "Sovietize" young people in the 1920s."A very impressive work—broad, learned, and very readable." —Lynn Mally"A welcome and fascinating addition to the social and cultural …
