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Author: I. Thatcher
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006-08-04
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0230624928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a stimulating and highly original collection of essays from a team of internationally renowned experts. The contributors reinterpret key issues and debates, including political, social, cultural and international aspects of the Russian revolution stretching from the late imperial period into the early Soviet state.
Author: Orlando Figes
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780300081060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors examine the diverse ways that language and other symbols--including flags and emblems, public rituals, songs, and codes of dress--were used to identify competing sides and to create new meanings in Russia's political struggles of 1917. 32 illustrations.
Author: Faith Hillis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0190066334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtopia's Discontents provides the first synthetic treatment of the Russian revolutionary emigration before the Revolution. It argues that neighborhoods created by Russian exiles became sites of revolutionary experimentation that offered their residents a taste of their anticipated utopian future.
Author: James CRACRAFT
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0674029941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany books chronicle the remarkable life of Russian tsar Peter the Great, but none analyze how his famous reforms actually took root and spread in Russia. By century's end, Russia was poised to play a critical role in the Napoleonic wars and boasted an elite culture about to burst into its golden age. In The Revolution of Peter the Great, James Cracraft offers a brilliant new interpretation of this pivotal era.
Author: Jeffrey Brooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-24
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1108484468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.
Author: Abraham Ascher
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Moira Donald
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-03-14
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1403940266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil the dramatic fall of Communist regimes in the East placed the possibility of revolution on the agenda once again, sudden and decisive political change had appeared a largely anachronistic phenomenon in Europe. Looking back over the twentieth century, it is plausible to argue that the twentieth, rather than the nineteenth, has been the 'most revolutionary of centuries'. In this volume, leading specialists from a variety of disciplines examine the changing and conflicting meanings of revolution in modern and contemporary Europe. Contributions include both broad essays on the global and historical context of European revolution and specific case studies reinterpreting a variety of revolutionary experiences.
Author: Paul Bushkovitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-12-05
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 1139504444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccessible 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.
Author: Lesley Chamberlain
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1780238568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough Lenin and his fellow revolutionaries never called themselves Utopians—believing strictly in a science of revolution, they considered Utopians to be merely dreamers—they were enormously inspired by the grand humanitarian aims of the French Revolution of 1789. Taking up this French revolutionary agenda and reinforcing it with German philosophy, Russians formed a beautiful vision in which an imaginary theology blended with a premier role for art. Arc of Utopia offers a fresh look at these German philosophical origins of the Russian Revolution. In the book, Lesley Chamberlain explains how influential German philosophers like Kant, Schiller, and Hegel were dazzled by contemporary events in Paris, and how this led a century later to an explosion of art and philosophy in the Russian streets, with a long-repressed people reinventing liberty, equality, and fraternity in their own cultural image. Chamberlain examines how some of the greatest Russian names of the nineteenth-century—from Alexander Herzen to Mikhail Bakunin, Ivan Turgenev to Fyodor Dostoevsky—defined their visions for Russia in relationship to their views on German enthusiasm for revolutionary France. With the centenary of the Russian Revolution approaching, Arc of Utopia is an important and timely revisioning of this tumultuous moment in history.
Author: Moira Donald
Publisher: Themes in Focus S
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780333641286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil the dramatic fall of Communist regimes in the East placed the possibility of revolution on the agenda once again, sudden and decisive political change had appeared a largely anachronistic phenomenon in Europe. Looking back over the 20th century, it is plausible to argue that the 20th, rather than the 19th has been the "most revolutionary of centuries." In this volume, specialists from a variety of disciplines examine the changing and conflicting meanings of revolution in modern and contemporary Europe. Contributions include both broad essays on the global and historical context of European revolution and specific case studies reinterpreting a variety of revolutionary experiences.
