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Adventures in Russian Historical Research

Author : Samuel H. Baron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317477731
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Russian Historical Research written by Samuel H. Baron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American historians of Russia have always been an intrepid lot. Their research trips were spent not in Cambridge or Paris, Rome or Berlin, but in Soviet dormitories with official monitors. They were seeking access to a historical record that was purposefully shrouded in secrecy, boxed up and locked away in closed archives. Their efforts, indeed their curiosity itself, sometimes raised suspicion at home as well as in a Soviet Union that did not want to be known even while it felt misunderstood. This lively volume brings together the reflections of twenty leading specialists on Russian history representing four generations. They relate their experiences as historians and researchers in Russia from the first academic exchanges in the 1950s through the Cold War years, detente, glasnost, and the first post-Soviet decade. Their often moving, acutely observed stories of Russian academic life record dramatic change both in the historical profession and in the society that they have devoted their careers to understanding.

Ukrainian Historical Writing in North America during the Cold War

Author : Volodymyr V. Kravchenko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179360908X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Ukrainian Historical Writing in North America during the Cold War written by Volodymyr V. Kravchenko and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive survey of Ukrainian historical writing in North America during the Cold War. The author describes the development of Ukrainian historical studies in Canada and the United States as an open, sometimes difficult dialogue between the Ukrainian ethnic and academic communities on the one hand and between Ukrainian scholars and Western academic mainstream on the other. He focuses on the institutional and the intellectual issues including various interpretations of major topics related to the Ukrainian national grand narrative, considering them in the evolving academic and political contexts of Slavic, East European, and Soviet studies.

Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR

Author : Sergei I. Zhuk
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498551254
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR written by Sergei I. Zhuk and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is an intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930–2008), the prominent Soviet historian who was a pioneering scholar of US history and US–Russian relations. Alongside the personal history of Bolkhovitinov, this study also examines the broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Using archival documents, numerous studies by Russian and Ukrainian Americanists, various periodicals, personal correspondence, diaries, and more than one hundred interviews, it demonstrates how concepts, genealogies, and images of modernity shaped a national self-perception of the intellectual elites in both nations during the Cold War.

Readings on the Russian Revolution

Author : Melissa K. Stockdale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350037435
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Readings on the Russian Revolution written by Melissa K. Stockdale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings on the Russian Revolution brings together 15 important post-Cold War writings on the history of the Russian Revolution. It is structured in such a way as to highlight key debates in the field and contrasting methodological approaches to the Revolution in order to help readers better understand the issues and interpretative fault lines that exist in this contested area of history. The book opens with an original introduction which provides essential background and vital context for the pieces that follow. The volume is then structured around four parts – 'Actors, Language, Symbols', 'War, Revolution, and the State', 'Revolutionary Dreams and Identities' and 'Outcomes and Impacts' – that explore the beginnings, events and outcomes of the Russian Revolution, as well as examinations of central figures, critical topics and major historiographical battlegrounds. Melissa Stockdale also provides translations of two crucial Russian-language works, published here in English for the first time, and includes useful pedagogical features such as a glossary, chronology, and thematic bibliography to further aid study. Readings on the Russian Revolution is an essential collection for anyone studying the Russian Revolution.

Adventures in Russ Hist Research

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Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765633620
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Russ Hist Research written by and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soviet Americana

Author : Sergei Zhuk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786723034
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Soviet Americana written by Sergei Zhuk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US. To shed light onto this important, yet under-studied, academic community, Sergei Zhuk here explores the personal histories of prominent Soviet Americanists, considering the myriad cultural influences - from John Wayne's bravado in the film Stagecoach to Miles Davis - that shaped their identities, careers and academic interests. Zhuk's compelling account draws on a wide range of understudied archival documents, periodicals, letters and diaries as well as more than 100 exclusive interviews with prominent Americanists to take the reader from the post-war origins of American studies, via the extremes of the Cold War, thaw and perestroika, to Putin's Russia. Soviet Americana is a comprehensive insight into shifting attitudes towards the US throughout the twentieth century and an essential resource for all Soviet and Cold War historians.

Historical Archives and the Historians' Commission to Investigate the Armenian Events of 1915

Author : Yücel Güçlü
Publisher : UPA
ISBN 13 : 0761865675
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Historical Archives and the Historians' Commission to Investigate the Armenian Events of 1915 written by Yücel Güçlü and published by UPA. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the vital importance of Ottoman and other relevant archives in Turkey for the study of the Armenian question. By turning a modern eye on historical events, Güçlü gives necessary attention to discovering the precise chronology, meaning, and development of the continuing negotiations between Turkey and Armenia.

Writing History in the Soviet Union

Author : Arup Banerji
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351381989
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Writing History in the Soviet Union written by Arup Banerji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Soviet Union has been charted in several studies over the decades. These depictions while combining accuracy, elegance, readability and imaginativeness, have failed to draw attention to the political and academic environment within which these histories were composed. Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the Past Work is aimed at understanding this environment. The book seeks to identify the significant hallmarks of the production of Soviet history by Soviet as well as Western historians. It traces how the Russian Revolution of 1917 triggered a shift in official policy towards historians and the publication of history textbooks for schools. In 1985, the Soviet past was again summoned for polemical revision as part and parcel of an attitude of openness (glasnost') and in this, literary figures joined their energies to those of historians. The Communist regime sought to equate the history of the country with that of the Communist Party itself in 1938 and 1962 and this imposed a blanket of conformity on history writing in the Soviet Union. The book also surveys the rich abundance of writing the Russian Revolution generated as well as the divergent approaches to the history of the period. The conditions for research in Soviet archives are described as an aspect of official monitoring of history writing. Another instance of this is the manner by which history textbooks have, through the years, been withdrawn from schools and others officially nursed into circulation. This intervention, occasioned in the present circumstance by statements by President Putin himself, in the manner in which history is taught in Russian schools, continues to this day. In other words, over the years, the regime has always worked to make the past work. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka

Know Your Enemy

Author : David C. Engerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199832471
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Know Your Enemy written by David C. Engerman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the people at the center of Cold War thought and politics: America's Russia experts

What is Soviet Now?

Author : Thomas Lahusen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3825806405
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book What is Soviet Now? written by Thomas Lahusen and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economists and political scientists wrestle with the challenges faced by Russian officials and public alike in adapting to a market economy and democracy, including the fragility of property rights and elections still rooted in old institutional structures. This book examines the reforms of health and welfare, and the hierarchy of privilege and access, and consider how Putin's statist approach to mythmaking compares to that of previous Soviet and post-Soviet regimes. Historians and anthropologists explore the issue of nostalgia, gender, punishment, belief, and how history itself is being created and perceived today. The book concludes with a journey through the ruined landscape of real socialism.

Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia

Author : Ben Eklof
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714657059
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia written by Ben Eklof and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays which examine the reform of the educational system in post Soviet Russia in historical and comparative perspective.

What Did You Do in the Cold War Daddy?

Author : Ann Curthoys
Publisher : NewSouth
ISBN 13 : 1742241778
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book What Did You Do in the Cold War Daddy? written by Ann Curthoys and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in. Family ties were tested, friendships were torn apart and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through twelve evocative stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from vastly different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family life and friendships. Some writers were barely in their teens when they felt the first touches of their parents’ political lives, both on the Left and the Right. Others grew up in households well attuned to activism across the spectrum, including anti-communism, workers’ rights, anti-Vietnam War, anti-apartheid and women’s rights. Sifting through the key political and social developments in Australia from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, including the referendum to ban the Communist Party of Australia, the rise of ‘the Movement’ and the Labor split, and post-war migration, this book is a powerful and poignant telling of the ways in which the political is personal.

New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations

Author : William Benton Whisenhunt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317425154
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations written by William Benton Whisenhunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes eighteen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians. Covering topics such as trade, diplomacy, art, war, public opinion, race, culture, and more, the essays show how the two nations related to one another across time from their first interactions as nations in the eighteenth century to now. Instead of being dominated by the narrative of the Cold War, New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations models the exciting new scholarship that covers more than the political and diplomatic worlds of the later twentieth century and provides scholars with a wide array of the newest research in the field.

A History Of Russia Volume 2

Author : Walter G. Moss
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857287397
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book A History Of Russia Volume 2 written by Walter G. Moss and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moss has significantly revised his text and bibliography in this second edition to reflect new research findings and controversies on numerous subjects. He has also brought the history up to date by revising the post-Soviet material, which now covers events from the end of 1991 up to the present day. This new edition retains the features of the successful first edition that have made it a popular choice in universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada and around the world.

Everyday Life in Russia

Author : Choi Chatterjee
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253012600
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in Russia written by Choi Chatterjee and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and “a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture” (The Russian Review). In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized Russian daily life from pre-revolutionary times through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and transnational perspectives shed new light on the formation and elaboration of gender, ethnicity, class, nationalism, and subjectivity. Changes in consumption and communication patterns, the restructuring of familial and social relations, systems of cultural meanings, and evolving practices in the home, at the workplace, and at sites of leisure are among the topics explored. “Offers readers a richly theoretical and empirical consideration of the ‘state of play’ of everyday life as it applies to the interdisciplinary study of Russia.” —Slavic Review “An engaging look at a vibrant area of research . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice “Volumes of such diversity frequently miss the mark, but this one represents a welcomed introduction to and a ‘must’ read for anyone seriously interested in the subject.” —Cahiers du Monde russe

Americans Experience Russia

Author : Choi Chatterjee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136177221
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Americans Experience Russia written by Choi Chatterjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists envisioned, experienced, and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. While many histories of diplomatic, economic, and intellectual connections between the United States and the Soviet Union can be found, none has yet examined how Americans’ encounters with Russian/Soviet society shaped their representations of a Russian/Soviet ‘other’ and its relationship with an American ‘west.’ The essays in this volume critically engage with postcolonial theories which posit that a self-valorizing, unmediated west dictated the colonial encounter, repressing native voices that must be recovered. Unlike western imperialists and their colonial subjects, Americans and Russians long co-existed in a tense parity, regarding each other as other-than-European equals, sometime cultural role models, temporary allies, and political antagonists. In examining the fiction, film, journalism, treatises, and histories Americans produced out of their ‘Russian experience,’ the contributors to this volume closely analyze these texts, locate them in their sociopolitical context, and gauge how their producers’ profession, politics, gender, class, and interaction with native Russian interpreters conditioned their authored responses to Russian/Soviet reality. The volume also explores the blurred boundaries between national identities and representations of self/other after the Soviet Union’s fall.

Yeltsin

Author : Timothy J Colton
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786732121
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Yeltsin written by Timothy J Colton and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and the withdrawal of Soviet control over eastern Europe, it was Yeltsin-Russia's first elected president-who buried the Soviet Union itself. Upon taking office, Yeltsin quickly embarked on a sweeping makeover of newly democratic Russia, beginning with a program of excruciatingly painful market reforms that earned him wide acclaim in the West and deep recrimination from many Russian citizens. In this, the first biography of Yeltsin's entire life, Soviet scholar Timothy Colton traces Yeltsin's development from a peasant boy in the Urals to a Communist party apparatchik, and then ultimately to a nemesis of the Soviet order. Based on unprecedented interviews with Yeltsin himself as well as scores of other Soviet officials, journalists, and businessmen, Colton explains how and why Yeltsin broke with single-party rule and launched his drive to replace it with democracy. Yeltsin's colossal attempt to bring democracy to Russia remains one of the great, unfinished stories of our time. As anti-Western policies and rhetoric resurface in Putin's increasingly bellicose Russia, Yeltsin offers essential insights into the past, present, and future of this vast and troubled nation.