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Author: Serhii Plokhy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780802039378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnmaking Imperial Russia examines Hrushevsky's construction of a new historical paradigm that brought about the nationalization of the Ukrainian past and established Ukrainian history as a separate field of study.
Author: Richard Charques
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2016-11-11
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1787203093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fateful twenty-three years following the accession of the last of the Romanov Tsars formed the prologue to the Russian Revolution, and foreshadowed the motives and mental attitudes of Russian policy today. Richard Charques’s detailed, vivid, and objective account of the reign of Nicholas II is based upon a wide study of Russian and other sources. It is given particular force and liveliness by the portrait gallery of the leading figures of the period; Nicholas II, the Tsaritsa Alexandra, Constantine Pobedonostsev, Sergius Witte, Lenin, Trotsky, Premier Stolypin, Miluikov, and Rasputin. “Striking phrases, fine judgments, flashes of deep perception, flicker through these pages, illuminating the sad, sombre story, which Mr. Charques is not afraid to extend, by implication, into the present.”—Observer (London) “Informative and well written, and the story of the last phase of the Romanovs is...movingly told.”—New Statesman (London) “Mr. Charques writes with great lucidity and elegance; he has also unusual discernment, a healthy sense of historical reality, and a penetrating mind...Scrupulously fair.”—Times Educational Supplement (London) “An uncommonly good book about the decline and fall of the Russian empire—lucid, incisive, well balanced, and extremely well written.”—Chicago Sunday Tribune
Author: ChaeRan Y. Freeze
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 568
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sidney Harcave
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780765614223
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Witte's spectacular rise during the reign of Alexander III was followed by a more troubled relationship with Nicholas II, who ultimately broke with his premier in 1906. Having negotiated the Portsmouth Treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War and drafted the October Manifesto that made Russia a constitutional monarchy, Witte had worn out his welcome in the imperial court. He withdrew into an embittered retirement, worked on his memoirs, and spent his last decade - in Bernard Pares's words - "watching a set of fools demolish a mighty empire." This is the first full-scale biography of Witte in English, by the historian who edited and translated Witte's memoirs."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Richard Denis Charques
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hugh Seton-watson
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1985-04-17
Total Pages: 430
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, originally published in 1952, describes and explains the stage of the decline of the Russian Empire between the Crimean and First World Wars. The book is divided up by period: the reign of Alexander II (1855-81), the period of reaction (1881-1905) and the 'Revolution' of 1905 and its aftermath (1905-14) and also into three sections: the structure of state and society, political movements and foreign relations.
Author: Trevor Erlacher
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 659
ISBN-13: 0674250931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first English-language biography of Dmytro Dontsov, the “spiritual father” of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, this book contextualizes Dontsov’s works, activities, and identity formation diachronically, reconstructing the cultural, political, urban, and intellectual milieus within which he developed and disseminated his worldview.
Author: Meriel Buchanan (biographe)
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Published: 1923
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Serhii Plokhy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-09-07
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780521864039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important questions about the origins of the East Slavic nations and the essential similarities or differences between their cultures. It traces the origins of the modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nations by focusing on pre-modern forms of group identity among the Eastern Slavs. It also challenges attempts to 'nationalize' the Rus' past on behalf of existing national projects, laying the groundwork for understanding of the pre-modern history of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The book covers the period from the Christianization of Kyivan Rus' in the tenth century to the reign of Peter I and his eighteenth-century successors, by which time the idea of nationalism had begun to influence the thinking of East Slavic elites.
Author: Mayhill C. Fowler
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2017-05-08
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1487513445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on theater and on the multi-ethnic borderlands. Unlike their contemporaries in Moscow or Leningrad, these artists from the regions have been all but forgotten despite the quality of their art. Beau Monde restores the periphery to the center of Soviet culture. Sources in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Yiddish highlight the important multi-ethnic context and the challenges inherent in constructing Ukrainian culture in a place of Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews. Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge traces the growing overlap between the arts and the state in the early Soviet years, and explains the intertwining of politics and culture in the region today.
