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| Author | : Cassandra Pybus |
| Publisher | : Thunder's Mouth Press |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9781568582900 |
From the moment Pybus first heard about Lillian Alling's trek across North America to her homeland of the Soviet Union, she couldn't get the story out of her mind. The result is an entertaining travel narrative that pieces together Alling's journey through the natural beauty and rich history of northwestern North America--a story never before told.
| Author | : Vijay Menon |
| Publisher | : Glagoslav Publications |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2018-05-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1911414771 |
A Brown Man in Russia describes the fantastical travels of a young, colored American traveler as he backpacks across Russia in the middle of winter via the Trans-Siberian. The book is a hybrid between the curmudgeonly travelogues of Paul Theroux and the philosophical works of Robert Pirsig. Styled in the vein of Hofstadter, the author lays out a series of absurd, but true stories followed by a deeper rumination on what they mean and why they matter. Each chapter presents a vivid anecdote from the perspective of the fumbling traveler and concludes with a deeper lesson to be gleaned. For those who recognize the discordant nature of our world in a time ripe for demagoguery and for those who want to make it better, the book is an all too welcome antidote. It explores the current global climate of despair over differences and outputs a very different message – one of hope and shared understanding. At times surreal, at times inappropriate, at times hilarious, and at times deeply human, A Brown Man in Russia is a reminder to those who feel marginalized, hopeless, or endlessly divided that harmony is achievable even in the most unlikely of places.
| Author | : Francine du Plessix Gray |
| Publisher | : Virago Press |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Soviet Union |
| ISBN | : 9781853814655 |
In this book, the author brings us the voices of women doctors, dissidents, party workers, journalists and factory workers, who talk about their lives. It emerges that women continue to suffer a variety of injustices, and there is backwardness in sex education and women's health facilities.
| Author | : Richard Stites |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2021-07-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1400843278 |
Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of emancipation--all come to life in this absorbing and dramatic account. The author's history begins with the feminist, nihilist, and populist impulses of the 1860s and 1870s, and leads to the social mobilization campaigns of the early Soviet period.
| Author | : Cassandra Pybus |
| Publisher | : T. Allen Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Alaska |
| ISBN | : 9780887621123 |
"Desperate with homesickness, Lillian Alling haunted the New York Public Library studying the atlas to establish the most direct route home to her native Russia. Her English was poor, but she understood the hieroglyphics of cartography. In the spring of 1927, aided only by a hand-drawn map, she started to walk..."From the moment Cassandra Pybus heard the story of Alling's incredible trek, she could not get the story of out of her mind. Was it possible that this young immigrant woman had walked thousands of kilometers across America?Pybus, an award-winning Australian writer, started searching for clues about this enigmatic pedestrian. When her historical sleuthing yielded little, Pybus set out on her own trek to trace Lillian's route through the wilderness of Northwestern Canada and subarctic Alaska to Siberia. The delightful result is a frank and entertaining travel narrative as Pybus pieces together Alling's extraordinary journey and the author and her reluctant travel companion embark on a "Thelma and Louise"-style adventure through the natural beauty and rich history of B.C. and points further north.
| Author | : Anna Bek |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2004-11-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780253217172 |
The story of an idealistic Russian woman doctor in pre- and postrevolutionary Siberia.
| Author | : Barbara Evans Clements |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0253000971 |
The author traces the major developments in the history of women in Russia and their impact on the history of the nation. Sketching lived experiences across the centuries, she demonstrates the key roles that women played in shaping Russia's political, economic, social, and cultural development for over a millennium, starting in 900.
| Author | : Laura J. Olson |
| Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2013-01-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0299290336 |
Russian rural women have been depicted as victims of oppressive patriarchy, celebrated as symbols of inherent female strength, and extolled as the original source of a great world culture. Throughout the years of collectivization, industrialization, and World War II, women played major roles in the evolution of the Russian village. But how do they see themselves? What do their stories, songs, and customs reveal about their values, desires, and motivations? Based upon nearly three decades of fieldwork, from 1983 to 2010, The Worlds of Russian Rural Women follows three generations of Russian women and shows how they alternately preserve, discard, and rework the cultural traditions of their forebears to suit changing needs and self-conceptions. In a major contribution to the study of folklore, Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva document the ways that women’s tales of traditional practices associated with marriage, childbirth, and death reflect both upholding and transgression of social norms. Their romance songs, satirical ditties, and healing and harmful magic reveal the complexity of power relations in the Russian villages.
| Author | : Ethel Snowden |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2023-11-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3387307799 |
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
| Author | : Ellen Rutten |
| Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2010-03-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0810126567 |
Throughout the twentieth century and continuing today, personifications of Russia as a bride occur in a wide range of Russian texts and visual representations, from literature and political and philosophical treatises to cartoons and tattoos. Invariably, this metaphor functions in the context of a political gender allegory, which represents the relationships between Russia, the intelligentsia, and the Russian state, as a competition of two male suitors for the former’s love. In Unattainable Bride Russia, Ellen Rutten focuses on the metaphorical role the intelligentsia plays as Russia’s rejected or ineffectual suitor. Rutten finds that this metaphor, which she covers from its prehistory in folklore to present-day pop culture references to Vladimir Putin, is still powerful, but has generated scarce scholarly consideration. Unattainable Bride Russia locates the cultural thread and places the political metaphor in a broad contemporary and social context, thus paying it the attention to which it is entitled as one of Russia’s modern cultural myths.
