Reading Russian Sources

Reading Russian Sources
Author: George Gilbert
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
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.

Russian History: A Very Short Introduction

Russian History: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Geoffrey Hosking
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199580987

A leading international authority discusses all aspects of Russian history, from the struggle by the state to control society to the transformation of the nation into a multi-ethnic empire, Russia's relations with the West and the post-Soviet era. Original.

The Reading of Russian Literature in China

The Reading of Russian Literature in China
Author: M. Gamsa
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2010-05-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230106811

This book traces the profound influence that Russian literature, which was tied inseparably to the political victory of the Russian revolution, had on China during a period that saw the collapse of imperial rule and the rise of the Communist Party.

Children of Rus'

Children of Rus'
Author: Faith Hillis
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2013-11-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801469252

In Children of Rus’, Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River—which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine—was one of the Russian empire’s last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest’s Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities. Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire’s most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native language or identifying with the culture of the Great Russian interior. Nevertheless, as Hillis shows, by the late nineteenth century, Russian nationalists had established a strong foothold in the southwest’s culture and educated society; in the first decade of the twentieth, they secured a leading role in local mass politics. By 1910, with help from sympathetic officials in St. Petersburg, right-bank activists expanded their sights beyond the borderlands, hoping to spread their nationalizing agenda across the empire. Exploring why and how the empire’s southwestern borderlands produced its most organized and politically successful Russian nationalist movement, Hillis puts forth a bold new interpretation of state-society relations under tsarism as she reconstructs the role that a peripheral region played in attempting to define the essential characteristics of the Russian people and their state.

Yakutia

Yakutia
Author: A.P. Okladnikov
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 522
Release: 1970-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773593543

A Concise History of Russia

A Concise History of Russia
Author: Paul Bushkovitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2011-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139504444

Accessible to students, tourists and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, new material has come to light on the history of the Soviet era, providing new conceptions of Russia's pre-revolutionary past. The book traces not only the political history of Russia, but also developments in its literature, art and science. Bushkovitch describes well-known cultural figures, such as Chekhov, Tolstoy and Mendeleev, in their institutional and historical contexts. Though the 1917 revolution, the resulting Soviet system and the Cold War were a crucial part of Russian and world history, Bushkovitch presents earlier developments as more than just a prelude to Bolshevik power.

The Beginnings of Russian History an Enquiry Into Sources

The Beginnings of Russian History an Enquiry Into Sources
Author: N K Chadwick
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2018-10-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9780343130312

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The Russian Story Book

The Russian Story Book
Author: Richard Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1916
Genre: Fairy tales
ISBN:

Fifteen tales including several featuring the hero Ilya; one featuring the villainous Whirlwind the Whistler; and others with Vasily the Turbulent, Nikita the Footless, and Peerless Beauty, the Cake-Baker.