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Author : Jaakoff Prelooker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Heroes and Heroines of Russia written by Jaakoff Prelooker and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jaakoff Prelooker
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330138731
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Heroes and Heroines of Russia written by Jaakoff Prelooker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Heroes and Heroines of Russia: Builders of a New Commonwealth "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive, it is the right, it is the duty, of the people to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." American Declaration of Independence, 1776. "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Inscription on an old cannon. "Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly made, and are not concluded with precipitation." B. Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. "Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms." "Revolutions are not made, they come." "Revolutions never go backward." Wendell Phillips, "Our government is founded on the right of revolution. The principle is as true in St. Petersburg and Moscow in 1905 as it was in Boston and Philadelphia in 1776." Henry B. Blackwell, at a meeting in Boston, January 31st, 1905, addressed by Catherine Breshkovskaya. "I hope that He Who gave Christ to the world and Washington to America, Who has so often sent the providential man - or the providential woman, like Deborah and Joan of Arc - will send a great loader to the Russian people." Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, at the same meeting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Nicholas Kotar
Publisher : Waystone Press
ISBN 13 : 1951536037
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Heroes for All Time written by Nicholas Kotar and published by Waystone Press. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the darkest of times... they shone brighter than the stars. Many are the stories of that mysterious land of Russia. Stories of heroes who gave their lives for God, Tsar, and country, and who left legacies that many a young child aspired to. Of course, so many of those stories are legends, a lifeline for people who had lost everything, and who preferred to remember a semi-fictional history that left out some of the more disturbing details. But in spite of history's dark reality, you still have bright lights appearing in unexpected places—heroes and heroines whose lives read like adventure tales, whose fates are sometimes stranger than fiction. This little book is a glimpse into the world of that Russia— a world filled with complex characters living out difficult lives in sometimes impossible circumstances. But more often than not, these heroes and heroines rose above all difficulties to become truly inspiring. In our own chaotic time, their stories are worthy of being retold again and again. If you want to be inspired by stories of true heroism in dark times, buy Heroes for All Time today!
Author : Albert Axell
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472103904
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Russia's Heroes written by Albert Axell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Hitler's invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941, the Eastern front opened and politicians and generals around the world predicted the swift destruction of the Soviet armies. Nazi Germany threw its might against Russia: 5,000,000 men took part in the blitz attack along the Russian frontier. From interviews and primary evidence, much of it never previously published, unfolds the story of the Eastern Front, interweaving accounts of the men and women who served with the progress of the war itself. A tale of unbelievable heroism.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Heroes and Heroines of Russia written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Sakaida
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780966512
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45 written by Henry Sakaida and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Great Patriotic War began many women volunteered for the armed forces, but most of them were rejected. They were steered towards nursing or other supportive roles. Many determined women managed to enter combat by first volunteering as field medics and nurses, then simply picking up a gun during the battle, and charging boldly into the line of fire. In the area of aviation, women also contributed greatly to the war effort. In rickety biplanes, they flew bombing missions at night, without parachutes; their only protection was the darkness. This book tells the stories of the brave women that were awarded the Soviet Union's most prestigious title Hero of the Soviet Union for their bravery in protecting their homeland.
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Publisher : Global Oriental
ISBN 13 : 9004213430
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5 written by and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journal of Japonisme is a multi-disciplinary, global publication and dedicated to all aspects of the Japonisme movement from the first appearance of the name in France in the 1870s until the 21st century. While Japonisme has long been seen as a significant influence on Western culture, there has never been an international journal that would specifically examine all aspects of this cultural phenomenon from a variety of disciplines and angles, ánd in a global perspective.
Author : Henry Sakaida
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780966938
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941–45 written by Henry Sakaida and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Patriotic War began on 22 June 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Over 10 million Soviet soldiers took part in the war and of those about 12,600 earned the Soviet Union's highest military award the Hero of the Soviet Union for deeds of great daring and self sacrifice. This book covers the male recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union award during the Great Patriotic War. Snipers, fighter pilots, partisans and spies are all included, together with the famous aces Pokryshkin and Kozhedub, who both gained the award an amazing three times.
Author : Graham Seal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440838615
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World written by Graham Seal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from the Americas to Zanzibar. Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines—real and imagined—that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time and space, over generations, even through migrations to new countries and languages. This encyclopedia is a one-stop source for broad coverage of the world's folk hero tales. Geared toward high school and early college readers, the book opens with an overview of folk heroes and heroines that provides invaluable context and then presents a chronology. The book is divided into two main sections: the first provides entries on the major types and themes; the second addresses specific folk tale characters organized by continent with folk hero entries organized alphabetically. Each entry provides cross references as well as a list of further readings. Continent sections include a bibliography for additional research. The book concludes with an alphabetical list of heroes and an index of hero types.
Author : Richard Stites
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253209498
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia written by Richard Stites and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This lively and often moving collection of essays is an important contribution to Western scholarship on Soviet society and culture during the Second World War. . . . [a] straightforward but lively description of cultural life, unhampered by excessive interpretation or cultural theory. For all those who love Russia's cultural heritage, these essays cast a welcome spotlight on some of the people and pockets of life from that tragic but compelling time." —Canadian Slavonic Papers "Enjoyable to read and accessible to the nonspecialist, Culture and Entertainment is not only an indispensable addition to any Soviet studies library but will prove valuable to anyone interested in or teaching courses on World War II, propaganda and popular culture, homefront politics, or the interacation between cultural creation and governmental power." —Journal of Modern History "This comprehensive recollection of articles goes beyond cultural history, and provides an original approach to the study of war. War, we learn, is fought on many fronts, and the cultural one should not be underestimated." —SAIS Review " . . . takes the reader to the heart of the patriotic struggle, to the cultural and spiritual imperatives that roused Russian resistance." —Canadian Military History "This collection . . . furthers knowledge of Soviet high and popular culture, and also demonstrates the extremely important role that cultural productions played in helping to maintain Soviet spirits in the midst of the Nazi onslaught." —Choice "This anthology of scholarly articles provides surprising insights into Soviet cultural propaganda during the Great Patriotic War." —War, Literature and the Arts ". . . the essays here provide much food for thought and constitute a valuable addition to a relatively neglected area of study." —The Slavonic Review World War II (The Great Patriotic War) had a pronounced cultural and emotional impact on the Russian people. The subjects of these essays range from the Moscow press to frontline correspondents, from entertainment brigades to amateur songs by fighting men and women, from symphonic compositions to revivals of literary classics, and from Moscow stages to folk ensembles on the battlefield—the cultural outpourings in the hearts and souls of ordinary Russians at war.
Author : Henry Sakaida
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780966520
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941–45 written by Henry Sakaida and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Patriotic War began on 22 June 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Over 10 million Soviet soldiers took part in the war and of those about 12,600 earned the Soviet Union's highest military award the Hero of the Soviet Union for deeds of great daring and self sacrifice. This book covers the male recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union award during the Great Patriotic War. Snipers, fighter pilots, partisans and spies are all included, together with the famous aces Pokryshkin and Kozhedub, who both gained the award an amazing three times.
Author : Maria Tatar
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631498827
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The Heroine with 1001 Faces written by Maria Tatar and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on redemptive missions. Deploying the domestic crafts and using words as weapons, they have found ways to survive assaults and rescue others from harm, all while repairing the fraying edges in the fabric of their social worlds. Like the tongueless Philomela, who spins the tale of her rape into a tapestry, or Arachne, who portrays the misdeeds of the gods, they have discovered instruments for securing fairness in the storytelling circles where so-called women’s work—spinning, mending, and weaving—is carried out. Tatar challenges the canonical models of heroism in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, with their male-centric emphases on achieving glory and immortality. Finding the women missing from his account and defining their own heroic trajectories is no easy task, for Campbell created the playbook for Hollywood directors. Audiences around the world have willingly surrendered to the lure of quest narratives and charismatic heroes. Whether in the form of Frodo, Luke Skywalker, or Harry Potter, Campbell’s archetypical hero has dominated more than the box office. In a broad-ranging volume that moves with ease from the local to the global, Tatar demonstrates how our new heroines wear their curiosity as a badge of honor rather than a mark of shame, and how their “mischief making” evidences compassion and concern. From Bluebeard’s wife to Nancy Drew, and from Jane Eyre to Janie Crawford, women have long crafted stories to broadcast offenses in the pursuit of social justice. Girls, too, have now precociously stepped up to the plate, with Hermione Granger, Katniss Everdeen, and Starr Carter as trickster figures enacting their own forms of extrajudicial justice. Their quests may not take the traditional form of a “hero’s journey,” but they reveal the value of courage, defiance, and, above all, care. “By turns dazzling and chilling” (Ruth Franklin), The Heroine with 1,001 Faces creates a luminous arc that takes us from ancient times to the present day. It casts an unusually wide net, expanding the canon and thinking capaciously in global terms, breaking down the boundaries of genre, and displaying a sovereign command of cultural context. This, then, is a historic volume that informs our present and its newfound investment in empathy and social justice like no other work of recent cultural history.
Author : Rosalind Marsh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527563367
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book New Women’s Writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe written by Rosalind Marsh and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1980s, there has been an explosion of women’s writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe greater than in any other cultural period. This book, which contains contributions by scholars and writers from many different countries, aims to address the gap in literature and debate that exists in relation to this subject. We investigate why women’s writing has become so prominent in post-socialist countries, and enquire whether writers regard their gender as a burden, or, on the contrary, as empowering. We explore the relationship in contemporary women’s writing between gender, class, and nationality, as well as issues of ethnicity and post-colonialism.
Author : I. Thatcher
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230624928
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia written by I. Thatcher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-08-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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 : Graham Seal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World written by Graham Seal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from the Americas to Zanzibar. Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines—real and imagined—that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time and space, over generations, even through migrations to new countries and languages. This encyclopedia is a one-stop source for broad coverage of the world's folk hero tales. Geared toward high school and early college readers, the book opens with an overview of folk heroes and heroines that provides invaluable context and then presents a chronology. The book is divided into two main sections: the first provides entries on the major types and themes; the second addresses specific folk tale characters organized by continent with folk hero entries organized alphabetically. Each entry provides cross references as well as a list of further readings. Continent sections include a bibliography for additional research. The book concludes with an alphabetical list of heroes and an index of hero types.
Author : Nina Nikolaevna Selivanova
Publisher : New York : E.P. Dutton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Russia's Women written by Nina Nikolaevna Selivanova and published by New York : E.P. Dutton. This book was released on 1923 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kazimiera J. Cottam
Publisher : Focus
ISBN 13 : 9781585101603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Women in War and Resistance written by Kazimiera J. Cottam and published by Focus. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of one hundred brief biographies of WWII Soviet female air force, infantry and navy personnel, as well as women partisans and leaders of urban resistance. About one million women served in the Soviet Armed Forces during WWII, yet their significant contribution to victory in that war has, so far, received insufficient attention. Publications in English have been limited to Soviet airwomen and are based on recent interviews with a handful of survivors. Unfortunately, most of these publications contain errors of fact and in some cases trivialize and sensationalize the subject. This collection includes one hundred brief biographies of WWII Soviet female air force, infantry and navy personnel, as well as women partisans and leaders of urban resistance, recipients of the Gold Star of Hero of the Soviet Union (HSU) and the Order of Glory I Class. As indicated in this collection, in the ground forces women distinguished themselves as medical personnel, political officers, tank crew members, machine gunners and snipers. Among decorated women snipers whose biographies appear in the book was Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Invited by Eleanor Roosevelt to tour the United States, she was the first Soviet citizen to be received at the White House and visited Canada, too; a Winchester rifle with an optical sight, now on display at the Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow, was presented to her in Toronto. Also included in the book were biographies of four participants in the Russian Civil War (1918-1921), including the incomparable Rozaliya Zemlyachka, deputy Prime Minister during WWII, and Raisa Azarkh, senior medical officer, who met Dr. Normal Bethune, a famous Canadian (who died tragically in China in 1939) while they both served in Spain, during the Spanish Civil War.
