Guide To Material On Russia And The Soviet Union
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Author | : George Gilbert |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351184156 |
Reading Russian Sources is an accessible and comprehensive guide that introduces students to the wide range of sources that can be used to engage with Russian history from the early medieval to the late Soviet periods. Divided into two parts, the book begins by considering approaches that can be taken towards the study of Russian history using primary sources. It then moves on to assess both textual and visual sources, including memoirs, autobiographies, journals, newspapers, art, maps, film and TV, enabling the reader to engage with and make sense of the burgeoning number of different sources and the ways they are used. Contributors illuminate key issues in the study of different areas of Russia’s history through their analysis of source materials, exploring some of the major issues in using different source types and reflecting recent discoveries that are changing the field. In so doing, the book orientates students within the broader methodological and conceptual debates that are defining the field and shaping the way Russian history is studied. Chronologically wide-ranging and supported by further reading, along with suggestions to help students guide their own enquiries, Reading Russian Sources is the ideal resource for any student undertaking research on Russian history.
Author | : Raymond E. Zickel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1182 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Russia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Roman Szporluk |
Publisher | : Hoover Press |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 2020-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817995439 |
This book chronicles the final two decades in the history of the Soviet Union and presents a story that is often lost in the standard interpretations of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Although there were numerous reasons for the collapse of communism, it did not happen—as it may have seemed to some—overnight. Indeed, says Roman Szporluk, the root causes go back even earlier than 1917. To understand why the USSR broke up the way it did, it is necessary to understand the relationship between the two most important nations of the USSR—Russia and Ukraine—during the Soviet period and before, as well as the parallel but interrelated processes of nation formation in both states. Szporluk details a number of often-overlooked factors leading to the USSR's fall: how the processes of Russian identity formation were not completed by the time of the communist takeover in 1917, the unification of Ukraine in 1939–1945, and the Soviet period failing to find a resolution of the question of Russian-Ukrainian relations. The present-day conflict in the Caucasus, he asserts, is a sign that the problems of Russian identity remain.
Author | : Artemy Troitsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
First hand account of the history of rock music in the Soviet Union.
Author | : Robert A. Karlowich |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2019-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1315490757 |
Identifies collections held by public and university libraries, historical societies, and other institutions, as well as private collections, with material relating to any subject and historical period, and to the widest geographical area under imperial or Soviet rule. Includes movements for example
Author | : James H. Billington |
Publisher | : Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004-03-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0801879760 |
Billington describes the contentious discussion occurring all over Russia and across the political spectrum. He finds conflicts raging among individuals as much as between organized groups and finds a deep underlying tension between the Russians' attempts to legitimize their new, nominally democratic identity, and their efforts to craft a new version of their old authoritarian tradition. After showing how the problem of Russian identity was framed in the past, Billington asks whether Russians will now look more to the West for a place in the common European home, or to the East for a new, Eurasian identity.
Author | : Matthew Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Astronautics |
ISBN | : 9780989991407 |
Author | : Julia L. Mickenberg |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2017-04-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022625612X |
If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia L. Mickenberg uncovers in American Girls in Red Russia, there is a forgotten counterpoint to the story of the Lost Generation: beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russian revolutionary ideology attracted many women, including suffragists, reformers, educators, journalists, and artists, as well as curious travelers. Some were famous, like Isadora Duncan or Lillian Hellman; some were committed radicals, though more were just intrigued by the “Soviet experiment.” But all came to Russia in search of social arrangements that would be more equitable, just, and satisfying. And most in the end were disillusioned, some by the mundane realities, others by horrifying truths. Mickenberg reveals the complex motives that drew American women to Russia as they sought models for a revolutionary new era in which women would be not merely independent of men, but also equal builders of a new society. Soviet women, after all, earned the right to vote in 1917, and they also had abortion rights, property rights, the right to divorce, maternity benefits, and state-supported childcare. Even women from Soviet national minorities—many recently unveiled—became public figures, as African American and Jewish women noted. Yet as Mickenberg’s collective biography shows, Russia turned out to be as much a grim commune as a utopia of freedom, replete with economic, social, and sexual inequities. American Girls in Red Russia recounts the experiences of women who saved starving children from the Russian famine, worked on rural communes in Siberia, wrote for Moscow or New York newspapers, or performed on Soviet stages. Mickenberg finally tells these forgotten stories, full of hope and grave disappointments.
Author | : Terence Wade |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2011-07-26 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1444351494 |
The third edition of Terence Wade’s A Comprehensive Russian Grammar, newly updated and revised, offers the definitive guide to current Russian usage. Provides the most complete, accurate and authoritative English language reference grammar of Russian available on the market Includes up-to-date material from a wide range of literary and non-literary sources, including Russian government websites Features a comprehensive approach to grammar exposition Retains the accessible yet comprehensive coverage of the previous edition while adding updated examples and illustrations, as well as insights into several new developments in Russian language usage since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
Author | : Paul McDaniel |
Publisher | : Historial Research |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780965628907 |