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Book Synopsis Russian Peasant Letters by : Olga Tsuneko Yokoyama
Download or read book Russian Peasant Letters written by Olga Tsuneko Yokoyama and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This editio princeps of letters by three Russian peasant men and two peasant women from a single family in southern Vyatka (now Udmurtia) covers the reign of Alexander III and two years of Nicholas II. The letters represent a precious primary source for Russian dialectologists and other linguists, such as those interested in the acquisition of literacy. They also provide direct, unadorned, and often vivid testimony concerning all aspects of everyday life - a unique source for scholars of history, sociology, culturology, and Peasant Studies. Written entirely in the peasants' own voices, addressing other family members, the letters track the development of events and of the authors themselves. The content includes economic and personal news, village and town gossip, parental admonition and prayers, requests for help, intrafamily troubles, and simply the authors' pouring out their hearts. The texts (with commentaries) are reproduced in three versions (the original Russian, a normalized Russian version, and an English translation); essays on linguistic and content-related features are followed by indices, appendices, bibliographical references, and facsimiles and illustrations.
Book Synopsis Letters from a Peasant by : Brent Olson
Download or read book Letters from a Peasant written by Brent Olson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russian Peasant Letters by : Olga T. Yokoyama
Download or read book Russian Peasant Letters written by Olga T. Yokoyama and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1880, two teenagers left their village on the Kama river, 1000 km east of Moscow. Their father wanted them to earn cash in Siberia and send it home. The result: scores of letters over a period of 16 years (1881-1896). The parents, two brothers and a sister reported on harvests and family finances, on marriages, births, and deaths, asked for money, offered religious instruction and moral advice, described their daily lives, and shared their worries about their alcoholic father and their desire to see the world and succeed in it. Meanwhile, the family's activity steadily expanded, as their side business grew from a single leaky rowboat to a fleet of steamships. These unique letters, preserved in a Siberian archive, appear here in English translation for the first time. The accompanying detailed commentaries, based on meticulous archival research, recreate these peasants' social, cultural, and economic milieu. The family's letters thus document the complex changes that led to upward mobility in an era that saw the rapid growth of capitalism and urbanization during late imperial Russia. Facsimiles and photographs are included.
Book Synopsis Letters from Vladivostock, 1894-1930 by : Eleanor L. Pray
Download or read book Letters from Vladivostock, 1894-1930 written by Eleanor L. Pray and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Over the next thirty-six years — from the time of Tsar Alexander III to the early years of Stalin’s rule — she wrote more than 2,000 letters chronicling her family life and the tumultuous social and political events she witnessed. Vladivostok, 5,600 miles east of Moscow, was shaped by a rich intersection of Asian cultures, and Pray’s witty and observant writing paints a vivid picture of the city and its denizens during a period of momentous social change. The book offers highlights from Pray’s letters along with illuminating historical and biographical information.
Book Synopsis Russian Peasant Letters by : Olga Tsuneko Yokoyama
Download or read book Russian Peasant Letters written by Olga Tsuneko Yokoyama and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1880, two teenagers left their village on the Kama river, 1000 km east of Moscow. Their father wanted them to earn cash in Siberia and send it home. The result: scores of letters over a period of 16 years (1881-1896). The parents, two brothers and a sister reported on harvests and family finances, on marriages, births, and deaths, asked for money, offered religious instruction and moral advice, described their daily lives, and shared their worries about their alcoholic father and their desire to see the world and succeed in it. Meanwhile, the family's activity steadily expanded, as their side business grew from a single leaky rowboat to a fleet of steamships. These unique letters, preserved in a Siberian archive, appear here in English translation for the first time. The accompanying detailed commentaries, based on meticulous archival research, recreate these peasants' social, cultural, and economic milieu. The family's letters thus document the complex changes that led to upward mobility in an era that saw the rapid growth of capitalism and urbanization during late imperial Russia. Facsimiles and photographs are included.
Book Synopsis The Polish Peasant in Europe and America by : William Isaac Thomas
Download or read book The Polish Peasant in Europe and America written by William Isaac Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Peasant Rebels Under Stalin by : Lynne Viola
Download or read book Peasant Rebels Under Stalin written by Lynne Viola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to document the peasant rebellion against Soviet collectivization, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin retrieves a crucial lost chapter from the history of Stalinist Russia. The peasant revolt against collectivization, as reconstructed by author Lynne Viola, was the most violent and sustained resistance to the Soviet state after the Russian Civil War. Conservative estimates suggest that over the course of the 1020s and early 1930s, more than 1,100 people were assassinated, more than 13,000 villages rioted, and over 2.5 million people participated in this active struggle of resistance. This book is about the men and women who tried to preserve their families, communities, and beliefs from the depredations of Stalinism. Their acts were often heroic, but these heroes were homespun, ordinary people who were driven to acts of desperation by cruel and brutal state policies. This is a study of peasant community, culture, and politics through the prism of resistance. Based on newly declassified Soviet archives, including previously inaccessible OGPU (secret police) reports, Viola's work documents the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to a virtual civil war between state and peasantry. This book is must reading for scholars of Soviet history, Stalinism, popular resistance, and Russian peasant culture.
Book Synopsis The Voice of the People by : C. J. Storella
Download or read book The Voice of the People written by C. J. Storella and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first comprehensive collection in English of peasant writings during the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Drawn entirely from Russian archival sources, it presents more than 150 previously unpublished letters addressed to newspapers, government officials, and Communist Party leaders. The letters and accompanying commentary result in a unique history of the Soviet peasantry's engagement and struggle with a powerful state, enabling readers to hear the voice of a social class that throughout history has too often been rendered voiceless.
Book Synopsis Home Life in Italy by : Lina Duff Gordon
Download or read book Home Life in Italy written by Lina Duff Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russian Peasant Letters by : Olga T. Yokoyama
Download or read book Russian Peasant Letters written by Olga T. Yokoyama and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, C. 1500-1700 by : Ulla Koskinen
Download or read book Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, C. 1500-1700 written by Ulla Koskinen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the forms that the aggression and violence of peasant elites could take in early modern Fennoscandia, and their role within society. The contributors highlight the social stratification, inner divisions, contradictions and conflicts of the peasant communities, but also pay attention to the elite as leaders of resistance against the authorities. With the formation of more centralised states, the elites’ status and room for agency diminished, but regional and temporal variations were great in this relatively drawn-out process, and there still remained several favourable contexts for their agency. Even though the peasant elite was not a homogenous entity, the chapters in this collection present us one uniting feature – the peasant elites’ tendency to assert themselves with an active and aggressive agency, even if this led to very different outcomes.
Book Synopsis The Polish Peasant in Europe and America by : William Isaac Thomas
Download or read book The Polish Peasant in Europe and America written by William Isaac Thomas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the immigrant family, this title brings together documents and commentary that is suitable for teaching United States history survey courses as well as immigration history and introductory sociology courses. It includes an introduction and epilogue.
Book Synopsis On life & letters by : Anatole France
Download or read book On life & letters written by Anatole France and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On Life and Letters by : Anatole France
Download or read book On Life and Letters written by Anatole France and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance by : Kim Richardson
Download or read book Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance written by Kim Richardson and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1874 and 1875, Brazilian peasants in the Northeastern region of Brazil rose up in rebellion, destroying the weights and measures of the new metric system implemented by the government from Rio de Janeiro. The authorities quickly dubbed this the Quebra-Quilos or the 'Break the Scales' uprising. Richardson's analysis of the uprising explores its underlying causes: increased taxes, rising costs of foodstuffs, the forced implementation of this new metric system, fear of being drafted into the military and, finally, the imprisonment of two of the leading bishops in Brazil, known as the Religious Question. Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance explores the complicated, multi-faceted uprising. The book covers the causes and results of an economy gone awry, governmental attempts at modernization, and the inevitable nineteenth-century conflicts over church-state relations.
Book Synopsis The Works of John Ruskin: Fors clavigera; letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain by : John Ruskin
Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin: Fors clavigera; letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lost Letters of Pergamum by : Bruce Longenecker
Download or read book The Lost Letters of Pergamum written by Bruce Longenecker and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fascinating Glimpse into the World of the New Testament Transported two thousand years into the past, readers are introduced to Antipas, a Roman civic leader who has encountered the writings of the biblical author Luke. Luke's history sparks Antipas's interest, and they begin corresponding. While the account is fictional, the author is a highly respected New Testament scholar who weaves reliable historical information into a fascinating story, offering a fresh, engaging, and creative way to learn about the New Testament world. The first edition has been widely used in the classroom (over 30,000 copies sold). This updated edition, now with improved readability and narrative flow, will bring the social and political world of Jesus and his first followers to life for many more students of the Bible.
