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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 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 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 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 Domestic scenes in Russia, letters by : Richard Lister Venables
Download or read book Domestic scenes in Russia, letters written by Richard Lister Venables and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century by : Alexander D. Nakhimovsky
Download or read book The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century written by Alexander D. Nakhimovsky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through letters and stories that trace their tragic history. In 1900, there were 100,000,000 peasants in Russia, but by mid-century their language was no longer passed from parents to children, resulting in no speakers of the dialect left today. In this study, Alexander D. Nakhimovsky argues that for all the variability of local dialects there was an underlying unity in them, which derived from their old shared traditions and oral nature. Their unity is best manifested in word formation, syntax, phraseology, and discourse. Different social groups followed somewhat different paths through the maze of Soviet history, and peasants' path was one of the most painful. The chronological organization of the book and the analysis of powerful, concise, and simple but expressive language of peasant letters and stories culminate into an oral history of their tragic Soviet experience.
Book Synopsis Stalin's Letters to Molotov by : Josef Stalin
Download or read book Stalin's Letters to Molotov written by Josef Stalin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1925 and 1936, Josef Stalin wrote frequently to his trusted friend and political colleague Viacheslav Molotov. The more than 85 letters collected in this volume constitute a unique historical record of Stalin's thinking--both personal and political--and throw valuable light on the way he controlled the government, plotted the overthrow of his enemies, and imagined the future. Illustrations.
Book Synopsis Stalin's Peasants by : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Download or read book Stalin's Peasants written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Soviet archives, especially the letters of complaint with which peasants deluged the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, this work analyzes peasants' strategies of resistance and survival in the new world of the collectivized village
Book Synopsis Letters of Life in an Aristocratic Russian Household Before and After the Revolution by : Amy Coles
Download or read book Letters of Life in an Aristocratic Russian Household Before and After the Revolution written by Amy Coles and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ėngelʹgardt Publisher :Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN 13 :9780195076219 Total Pages :272 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (762 download)
Book Synopsis Aleksandr Nikolaevich Engelgardt's Letters from the Country, 1872-1887 by : Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ėngelʹgardt
Download or read book Aleksandr Nikolaevich Engelgardt's Letters from the Country, 1872-1887 written by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ėngelʹgardt and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the rye field and the threshing barn to the local gentry and the village court, A.N. Engelgardt's Letters painted the most lively, entertaining, and insightful portrait of Imperial Russia's rural countryside. Now translated into English for the first time, judiciously abridged, and fully annotated for the modern reader, Engelgardt's account stands revealed both as a major primary source on nineteenth-century Russia and as an ever-more-timely analysis of a peasant culture in the wake of reform. A distinguished chemist at the St. Petersburg Agricultural Institute, Engelgardt was also an eloquent spokesman for liberty and reform, especially on behalf of Russia's peasant majority. Accused of conspiratorial activities by the Tsarist government, he was exiled in 1871 to his modest estate in impoverished Smolensk province, where, under police surveillance, he wrote his Letters for publication in St. Petersburg. With scientific precision, Engelgardt produced the first comprehensive eye-witness account of the peasant's daily affairs and environment, with detailed descriptions of land reform and collectivization, reflections on the role of peasant women and the effects of emancipation, discussions of local agriculture and the economy, and vivid accounts of peasant attitudes about everything from the Russo-Turkish War to anti-semitism. With an extensive introduction and copious notes, this translation is ideal for anyone interested in Russian history and peasant studies.
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 Letters from Russia, 1919 by : Petr Demʹi͡anovich Uspenskiĭ
Download or read book Letters from Russia, 1919 written by Petr Demʹi͡anovich Uspenskiĭ and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Voice of the People by : Carmine John Storella
Download or read book The Voice of the People written by Carmine John Storella and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a comprehensive collection of peasant writings during the early years of the Bolshevik regime. It presents over 150 letters addressed to newspapers, government officials and Communist Party leaders.
Book Synopsis Old Russian Birchbark Letters by : Simeon Dekker
Download or read book Old Russian Birchbark Letters written by Simeon Dekker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A corpus of medieval Russian letters is investigated from a pragmatic angle, in order to identify linguistic parameters that demonstrate the development from orality to literacy in the communicative practices of the time.
Book Synopsis The Letters of Lenin by : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Download or read book The Letters of Lenin written by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russian and West European Women, 1860-1939 by : Marcelline J. Hutton
Download or read book Russian and West European Women, 1860-1939 written by Marcelline J. Hutton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious study provides a sweeping overview of the position of women in England, France, Germany, and Russia/USSR from 1860-1939. The book illustrates their struggles to realize their dreams and their resourcefulness in coping with often dreary, hard, even horrifying lives. Deftly combining statistical data to underscore collective experiences and belles lettres to highlight the texture of individual women's lives, the book assesses the significance of gender, class, nationality, and religion. This richly researched work traces common patterns and unique experiences in women's lives by showing how they defined themselves, coped with daily life, and confronted disaster with courage and resourcefulness.
Author :Olʹga Petrovna Semenova-Ti︠a︡n-Shanskai︠a︡ Publisher :Indiana University Press ISBN 13 :9780253347978 Total Pages :212 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (479 download)
Book Synopsis Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia by : Olʹga Petrovna Semenova-Ti︠a︡n-Shanskai︠a︡
Download or read book Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia written by Olʹga Petrovna Semenova-Ti︠a︡n-Shanskai︠a︡ and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ò . . . a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution. . . . The translation is superb.Ó ÑSteven Hoch Ò . . . one of the best ethnographic portraits that we have of the Russian village. . . . a highly readable text that is an excellent introduction to the world of the Russian peasantry.Ó ÑSamuel C. Ramer Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia provides a unique firsthand portrait of peasant family life as recorded by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, an ethnographer and painter who spent four years at the turn of the twentieth century observing the life and customs of villagers in a central Russian province. Unusual in its awareness of the rapid changes in the Russian village in the late nineteenth century and in its concentration on the treatment of women and children, SemyonovaÕs ethnography vividly describes courting rituals, marriage and sexual practices, childbirth, infanticide, child-rearing practices, the lives of women, food and drink, work habits, and the household economy. In contrast to a tradition of rosy, romanticized descriptions of peasant communities by Russian upper-class observers, Semyonova gives an unvarnished account of the harsh living conditions and often brutal relationships within peasant families.
