Broad Is My Native Land

Broad Is My Native Land
Author: Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2015-02-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801455138

Whether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia's vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of migration. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch tell the stories of Russians on the move, capturing the rich variety of their experiences by distinguishing among categories of migrants—settlers, seasonal workers, migrants to the city, career and military migrants, evacuees and refugees, deportees, and itinerants. So vast and diverse was Russian political space that in their journeys, migrants often crossed multiple cultural, linguistic, and administrative borders. By comparing the institutions and experiences of migration across the century and placing Russia in an international context, Siegelbaum and Moch have made a magisterial contribution to both the history of Russia and the study of global migration.The authors draw on three kinds of sources: letters to authorities (typically appeals for assistance); the myriad forms employed in communication about the provision of transportation, food, accommodation, and employment for migrants; and interviews with and memoirs by people who moved or were moved, often under the most harrowing of circumstances. Taken together, these sources reveal the complex relationship between the regimes of state control that sought to regulate internal movement and the tactical repertoires employed by the migrants themselves in their often successful attempts to manipulate, resist, and survive these official directives.

Your Native Land, Your Life

Your Native Land, Your Life
Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1993-10-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0393348172

A major American poet faces her own native land, her own life, and the result is a volume of compelling, transforming poems. The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions—Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life. The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different claim from those staked by the patriots of the sword; to speak of the land itself, the cities, and of the imaginations that have dwelt here, at risk, unfree, assaulted, erased. I believe more than ever that the search for justice and compassion is the great wellspring for poetry in our time, throughout the world, though the theme of despair has been canonized in this country. I draw strength from the traditions of all those who, with every reason to despair, have refused to do so."

Scenes in My Native Land (Classic Reprint)

Scenes in My Native Land (Classic Reprint)
Author: Mrs. L. H. Sigourney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016-06-22
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781332613748

Excerpt from Scenes in My Native Land Table-rock, where the great ood Reveals its fullest glory. To the verge Of its appalling battlement draw near, And gaze below. Or if thy spirit fail, Creep stealthily, and snatch a trembling glance Into the dread abyss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

MY NATIVE LAND

MY NATIVE LAND
Author: UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN: 9781332851331