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Author: Marc Raeff
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781573922944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcquaints those unable to read Russian with writings that have helped to shape the social and political consciousness of modern Russia. Most of these documents, from the 18th and 19th centuries, have never appeared in English.
Author: Marc Raeff
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nancy Good
Publisher: St Martins Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780312039356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering the advice and understanding that women need to attain happiness, a psychotherapist analyzes the history and behavioral patterns of women who sabotage their chances of success, in a comprehensive, usable guide for developing new patterns of behav
Author: Vadim Joseph Rossman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780803239487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAntisemitism has had a long and complex history in Russian intellectual life and has revived in the post-Communist era. In their concept of the identity of the Jewish people, many academics and other thinkers in Russia continue to cast Jews in a negative or ambivalent role. An inherent rivalry exists between "Russia" and "the Jews" because Russians have often viewed themselves-whether through the lens of atheistic communism or that of the most conservative elements of the Orthodox Church-as a chosen people whose destiny is to lead the way to world salvation. In this book, Vadim Rossman presents the foundations and present influence of intellectual antisemitism in Russia. He examines the antisemitic roots of some major trends in Russian intellectual thought that emerged in earlier decades of the twentieth century and are still significant in the post-Communist era: neo-Eurasianism, Eurasian historiography, National Bolshevism, neo-Slavophilism, National Orthodoxy, and various forms of racism. Such extreme right-wing ideology continues to appeal to a certain segment of the Russian population and seems unlikely to disappear soon. Rossman confronts and challenges a range of disturbing, sometimes contradictory, but often quite sophisticated antisemitic ideas posed by Russian sociologists, historians, philosophers, theologians, political analysts, anthropologists, and literary critics.
Author: Andrzej Walicki
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780804711326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book covers virtually all the significant Russian thinkers from the age of Catherine the Great Down to the eve of the 1905 Revolution.
Author: William Leatherbarrow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1139487191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This history examines important intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the West and East, the common people, and attitudes to capitalism and natural science) in Russian intellectual history. Concentrating on the Golden Age of Russian thought in the mid-nineteenth century, the contributors also look back to its eighteenth-century origins in the flowering of culture following the reign of Peter the Great, and forward to the continuing vitality of Russia's classical intellectual tradition in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. With brief biographical details of over fifty key thinkers and an extensive bibliography, this book provides a fresh, comprehensive overview of Russian intellectual history.
Author: Robert D. English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780231110594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are treated largely as incidental to the broader considerations of power. English demonstrates that Gorbachev's foreign policy was the result of an intellectual revolution. He analyzes the rise of a liberal policy-academic elite and its impact on the Cold War's end.
Author: Patrick Lally Michelson
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2017-07-11
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0299312003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the cultural and ideological foundations of imperial Russia were threatened by forces of modernity, an array of Orthodox churchmen, theologians, and lay thinkers turned to asceticism, hoping to ensure the coming Kingdom of God promised to the Russian nation.
Author: Naukove tovarystvo imeny Shevchenka (Canada)
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey touch on religious, philosophical, aesthetic, ethical, sociological, historical, and political ideas, and thereby illuminate significant attitudes, values, ideological commitments, and systems of thought that have crystallized at central moments in the development of Ukraine.
Author: Masha Gessen
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 159463453X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGAR The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own--as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.
