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Book Synopsis Information and Empire by : Simon Franklin
Download or read book Information and Empire written by Simon Franklin and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 brings together a range of contributions to shed some light on this complex question. Communication networks such as the postal service and the gathering and circulation of news are examined alongside the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informed the government about its country and its people. The inscription of space is considered from the point of view of mapping and the changing public ‘graphosphere’ of signs and monuments. More than a series of institutional histories, this book is concerned with the way Russia discovered itself, envisioned itself and represented itself to its people. Innovative and scholarly, this collection breaks new ground in its approach to communication and information as a field of study in Russia. More broadly, it is an accessible contribution to pre-modern information studies, taking as its basis a country whose history often serves to challenge habitual Western models of development. It is important reading not only for specialists in Russian Studies, but also for students and non-Russianists who are interested in the history of information and communications.
Author :Grigori? Zosimovich Kaganov Publisher :Stanford University Press ISBN 13 :9780804727426 Total Pages :254 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (274 download)
Book Synopsis Images of Space by : Grigori? Zosimovich Kaganov
Download or read book Images of Space written by Grigori? Zosimovich Kaganov and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's subject is not the buildings, trees, and rivers of one of the most beautiful and historically important cities of the world, but the spaces between them: space as a conceptual interval, not an emptiness.
Book Synopsis The Tsar's Foreign Faiths by : Paul W. Werth
Download or read book The Tsar's Foreign Faiths written by Paul W. Werth and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Empire presented itself to its subjects and the world as an Orthodox state, a patron and defender of Eastern Christianity. Yet the tsarist regime also lauded itself for granting religious freedoms to its many heterodox subjects, making 'religious toleration' a core attribute of the state's identity. The Tsar's Foreign Faiths shows that the resulting tensions between the autocracy's commitments to Orthodoxy and its claims to toleration became a defining feature of the empire's religious order. In this panoramic account, Paul W. Werth explores the scope and character of religious freedom for Russia's diverse non-Orthodox religions, from Lutheranism and Catholicism to Islam and Buddhism. Considering both rhetoric and practice, he examines discourses of religious toleration and the role of confessional institutions in the empire's governance. He reveals the paradoxical status of Russia's heterodox faiths as both established and 'foreign', and explains the dynamics that shaped the fate of newer conceptions of religious liberty after the mid-nineteenth century. If intellectual change and the shifting character of religious life in Russia gradually pushed the regime towards the acceptance of freedom of conscience, then statesmen's nationalist sentiments and their fears of 'politicized' religion impeded this development. Russia's religious order thus remained beset by contradiction on the eve of the Great War. Based on archival research in five countries and a vast scholarly literature, The Tsar's Foreign Faiths represents a major contribution to the history of empire and religion in Russia, and to the study of toleration and religious diversity in Europe.
Book Synopsis Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia by : Richard Stites
Download or read book Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia written by Richard Stites and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-22 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Stites explores the dramatic shift in the history of visual and performing arts that took place in the last decades of serfdom in Russia in the 1860s and revisualises the culture of that flamboyant era.
Book Synopsis Visual Resources from Russia and Eastern Europe in the New York Public Library by : Hee-Gwone Yoo
Download or read book Visual Resources from Russia and Eastern Europe in the New York Public Library written by Hee-Gwone Yoo and published by Ross Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mapping St. Petersburg by : Julie A. Buckler
Download or read book Mapping St. Petersburg written by Julie A. Buckler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushkin's palaces or Dostoevsky's slums? Many a modern-day visitor to St. Petersburg has one or, more likely, both of these images in mind when setting foot in this stage set-like setting for some of the world's most treasured literary masterpieces. What they overlook is the vast uncharted territory in between. In Mapping St. Petersburg, Julie Buckler traces the evolution of Russia's onetime capital from a "conceptual hierarchy" to a living cultural system--a topography expressed not only by the city's physical structures but also by the literary texts that have helped create it. By favoring noncanonical works and "underdescribed spaces," Buckler seeks to revise the literary monumentalization of St. Petersburg--with Pushkin and Dostoevsky representing two traditional albeit opposing perspectives--to offer an off-center view of a richer, less familiar urban landscape. She views this grand city, the product of Peter the Great's ambitious vision, not only as a geographical entity but also as a network of genres that carries historical and cultural meaning. We discover the busy, messy "middle ground" of this hybrid city through an intricate web of descriptions in literary works; nonfiction writings such as sketches, feuilletons, memoirs, letters, essays, criticism; and urban legends, lore, songs, and social practices--all of which add character and depth to this refurbished imperial city.
Book Synopsis Subject Catalog by : Library of Congress
Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Imperial Imprints by : Elena Hellberg-Hirn
Download or read book Imperial Imprints written by Elena Hellberg-Hirn and published by Finnish Literature Society. This book was released on 2003 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city on the Neva has recently taken back its original name, St. Petersburg. The official strategies for the Tercentenary in 2003 saw the city's potential as being generated by its imperial past. In a series of scholarly essays the author examines the historical background to St. Petersburg's contemporary identifications. Framed mainly in romantic and nostalgic terms, they imprint an idealized Old Imperial Russia onto the post-Soviet city.
Book Synopsis Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University. 2d ed., enl by : Avery Library
Download or read book Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University. 2d ed., enl written by Avery Library and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ABM written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. The scope of ARTbibliographies Modern extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature. Approximately 13,000 new entries are added each year. Published with title LOMA from 1969-1971.
Download or read book Newsletter written by Anthony Glenn Cross and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Drawing and Watercolours in Russian Culture by : E. N. Petrova
Download or read book Drawing and Watercolours in Russian Culture written by E. N. Petrova and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains considerable archive information on the oeuvre and life of renowned as well as little-known artists, on the history of the creation and the current existence of works. New ascriptions are published in the catalogue. The structure of the publication enables the reader to trace the oeuvre of artists in various contexts. The catalogue is accompanied by numerous illustrations, biographies of artists and detailed commentaries and many works are published for the first time. This publication is tied to the exhibition in the St. Michael's (Engineers) Castle of the State Russian Museum.
Book Synopsis Library of Congress Catalogs by : Library of Congress
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Newsletter - Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia by : Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia
Download or read book Newsletter - Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia written by Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Book Synopsis Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia Newsletter by : Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia
Download or read book Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia Newsletter written by Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture by : New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture written by New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
