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Book Synopsis Russia's Hero Cities by : Ivo Mijnssen
Download or read book Russia's Hero Cities written by Ivo Mijnssen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II, known as the Great Patriotic War to Russians, ravaged the Soviet Union and traumatized those who survived. After the war, memory of this anguish was often publicly repressed under Stalin. But that all changed by the 1960s. Under Brezhnev, the idea of the Great Patriotic War was transformed into one of victory and celebration. In Russia's Hero Cities, Ivo Mijnssen reveals how contradictory national recollections were revised into an idealized past that both served official needs and offered a narrative of heroism. This triumphant narrative was most evident in the creation of 13 Hero Cities, now located across Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. These cities, which were host to some of the fiercest and most famous battles, were named champions. Brezhnev's government officially recognized these cities with awards, financial contributions, and ritualized festivities. Their citizens also encountered the altered history at every corner—on manicured battlefields, in war memorials, and through stories at the kitchen table. Using a rich tapestry of archival material, oral history interviews, and newspaper articles, Mijnssen provides a thorough exploration of two cities in particular, Tula and Novorossiysk. By exploring the significance of Hero Cities in Soviet identity and the enduring but conflicted importance they hold for Russians today, Russia's Hero Cities exposes how the Great Patriotic War no longer has the power to mask the deep rifts still present in Russian society.
Book Synopsis The City in Russian History by : Michael F. Hamm
Download or read book The City in Russian History written by Michael F. Hamm and published by Lexington : University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1976 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia by : Vicky Davis
Download or read book Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia written by Vicky Davis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1943 battle to free the Soviet Black Sea port of Novorossiisk from German occupation was fought from the beach head of Malaia zemlia, where the young Colonel Leonid Brezhnev saw action. Despite widespread scepticism of the state's appropriation and inflation of this historical event, the heroes of the campaign are still commemorated in Novorossiisk today by an amalgam of memoir, monuments and ritual. Through the prism of this provincial Russian town, Vicky Davis sheds light on the character of Brezhnev as perceived by his people, and on the process of memory for the ordinary Russian citizen. Davis analyses the construction and propagation of the local war myth to link the individual citizens of Novorossiisk with evolving state policy since World War II and examines the resultant social and political connotations. Her compelling new interdisciplinary evidence reveals the complexity of myth and memory, challenging existing assumptions to show that there is still scope for the local community - and even the individual - in memory construction in an authoritarian environment. This book represents a much-needed departure from the study of myth and memory in larger cities of the former Soviet Union, adding nuance to the existing portrait of Brezhnev and demonstrating the continued importance of war memory in Russia today.
Book Synopsis A Hero of Our Time by : Mikhail Lermontov
Download or read book A Hero of Our Time written by Mikhail Lermontov and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Novel About Opposites “In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.” - Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time ‘The Hero of Our Time’, Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin is actually a traditional antihero who destroys the life of others around him. He is a 19th-century Casanova who can’t find peace and happiness, often contemplating on the meaning of life and destiny. His story is seen through many eyes: a fellow brother-in-arms, the narrator and ultimately Pechorin himself. How will he end up: as a misunderstood hero or as a vile villain? Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
Book Synopsis The City in Russian Culture by : Pavel Lyssakov
Download or read book The City in Russian Culture written by Pavel Lyssakov and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- 1 The city in Russian culture: space, culture, and the Russian city -- Part I The constructed city -- 2 The city as legible sanctuary: Siberia's city on a hill: Tobol'sk at the apogee of empire -- 3 The city as a site of urban vision: serf village, industrial town: the creation of Ivanovo-Voznesensk -- 4 The city as translocal space: "Malorossians Have Come!" Ukrainian musicale and the making of the Russian imperial city in the Middle Volga -- 5 The city as a work of monumental culture: the hero-city of Novorossiisk as a site of war myth and memory -- 6 The city as showpiece: Arctic camp, Arctic city: the Gulag and the construction of Vorkuta -- 7 The city as genuine place: the paradoxes of Soviet urbanization: the search for the genuine Soviet city -- Part II The represented city -- 8 The city as narrated space: spatial practices and the narrative of the Russian city -- 9 The city as imagined home: journeys through the socialist city and inside the socialist apartment: space and place in the Moscow text of Soviet film -- 10 The city as created text: writing from the ruins of Europe: representing Kaliningrad in Russian literature from Brodsky to Buida -- 11 The city as imaginary landscape: the geo-cultural images of Sortavala: poetics of place in the North Ladoga region -- 12 The city as gendered space: the rise and fall of the creative capitals: female directors on post-Soviet urban space -- Index
Book Synopsis The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900 by : Daniel R. Brower
Download or read book The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900 written by Daniel R. Brower and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
Download or read book Russia written by Gregory Carleton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsiders view Russia as an aggressor, but Russians see themselves as surrounded by enemies, defensively fighting off invader after invader, or called upon by history to be the savior of Europe, or Christianity, or civilization itself, often at immense cost. As Gregory Carleton shows, war is the unifying thread of Russia’s national epic.
Book Synopsis Young Heroes of the Soviet Union by : Alex Halberstadt
Download or read book Young Heroes of the Soviet Union written by Alex Halberstadt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history” (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a past that still haunts him. NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS’ TOP BOOKS OF THE YEAR Alex Halberstadt’s quest takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth, where decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. In Ukraine, he tracks down his paternal grandfather—most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin. He revisits Lithuania, his Jewish mother’s home, to examine the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for. And he returns to his birthplace, Moscow, where his grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet ministers’ wives, his mother consoled dissidents at a psychiatric hospital, and his father made a dangerous living by selling black-market American records. Halberstadt also explores his own story: that of an immigrant growing up in New York, another in a line of sons separated from their fathers by the tides of politics and history. Young Heroes of the Soviet Union is a moving investigation into the fragile boundary between history and biography. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his family’s formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational transmission of fear, suffering, and rage. And he comes to realize something more: Nations, like people, possess formative traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their citizens’ lives.
Book Synopsis Journey Into Russia by : Laurens Van Der Post
Download or read book Journey Into Russia written by Laurens Van Der Post and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurens Van Der Post takes us behind the iron curtain of Soviet officialdom in a quest to discover the real Russia - a land full of enigma and secrecy, but treasured by its ordinary people.
Book Synopsis Three Cities in Russia by : Charles Piazzi Smyth
Download or read book Three Cities in Russia written by Charles Piazzi Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Soviet Cities: Labour, Life and Leisure by : Arseniy Kotov
Download or read book Soviet Cities: Labour, Life and Leisure written by Arseniy Kotov and published by Fuel. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet dream of modernist architecture for all, portrayed on the brink of its erasure In recent years Russian cities have visibly changed. The architectural heritage of the Soviet period has not been fully acknowledged. As a result many unique modernist buildings have been destroyed or changed beyond recognition. Russian photographer Arseniy Kotov intends to document these buildings and their surroundings before they are lost forever. He likes to take pictures in winter, during the "blue hour," which occurs immediately after sunset or just before sunrise. At this time, the warm yellow colors inside apartment-block windows contrast with the twilight gloom outside. To Kotov, this atmosphere reflects the Soviet period of his imagination. His impression of this time is unashamedly idealistic: he envisages a great civilization, built on a fair society, which hopes to explore nature and conquer space. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the desert steppes of Kazakhstan to the grim monolithic high-rise dormitory blocks of inner-city Volgograd, Kotov captures the essence of the post-Soviet world. "The USSR no longer exists and in these photographs we can see what remains--the most outstanding buildings and constructions, where Soviet people lived and how Soviet cities once looked: no decoration, no bright colors and no luxury, only bare concrete and powerful forms." This superbly designed volume is the latest in Fuel's revelatory and inspiring series on Soviet-era architecture.
Book Synopsis Heroes and Heroines of Russia by : Jaakoff Prelooker
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:
Download or read book Leningrad written by Nik Cornish and published by Images of War. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 900-day siege of the Soviet city of Leningrad by the combined forces of the Germans and the Finns is one of the most remarkable, terrible events of the World War II, yet until recently it has not received the attention it deserves. This book tells of the ruthless struggle of Hitler's armies to capture the second city of the Soviet Union.
Download or read book Turizm written by Anne E. Gorsuch and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Soviet Union and the eastern bloc, the idea of "vacation" was never as uncomplicated as throwing some suitcases in the car and heading for the beach. The emphasis was on individual self-improvement within the framework of the collective, an approach manifest in everything from the scheduling of physical exercise to the group tours organized for factory workers, Party cadres, and other segments of society. Like other Soviet-style utopian projects, socialist tourism, which was often heavily laden with rules and prescriptions, was a consciousness-raising project, part of the vast effort to forge new socialist men and women. Turizm is the first book to examine the history of tourism in Russia and eastern Europe from the tsarist period to the age of Soviet and east European mass tourism in the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors to this volume address topics including the roots of socialist tourism, the role of tourism in the making of nations and maintenance of empire, and ways in which the men and women of the "margins of Europe" understood themselves in relation to "Europe." Especially interesting are chapters that show how individuals pursued their own consumerist goals within the framework of collective tourism, obliging the regimes to adapt. Illustrated with period photographs and promotional materials, Turizm will appeal not only to historians of the region but also to anyone with an interest in consumer culture, travel, leisure, and nation-building.
Book Synopsis Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia by : Vicky Davis
Download or read book Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia written by Vicky Davis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1943 battle to free the Soviet Black Sea port of Novorossiisk from German occupation was fought from the beach head of Malaia zemlia, where the young Colonel Leonid Brezhnev saw action. Despite widespread scepticism of the state's appropriation and inflation of this historical event, the heroes of the campaign are still commemorated in Novorossiisk today by an amalgam of memoir, monuments and ritual. Through the prism of this provincial Russian town, Vicky Davis sheds light on the character of Brezhnev as perceived by his people, and on the process of memory for the ordinary Russian citizen. Davis analyses the construction and propagation of the local war myth to link the individual citizens of Novorossiisk with evolving state policy since World War II and examines the resultant social and political connotations. Her compelling new interdisciplinary evidence reveals the complexity of myth and memory, challenging existing assumptions to show that there is still scope for the local community - and even the individual - in memory construction in an authoritarian environment. This book represents a much-needed departure from the study of myth and memory in larger cities of the former Soviet Union, adding nuance to the existing portrait of Brezhnev and demonstrating the continued importance of war memory in Russia today.--
Book Synopsis Some Russian Heroes, Saints and Sinners, Legendary and Historical by : Sonia Elizabeth Howe
Download or read book Some Russian Heroes, Saints and Sinners, Legendary and Historical written by Sonia Elizabeth Howe and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The City in Late Imperial Russia by : Michael F. Hamm
Download or read book The City in Late Imperial Russia written by Michael F. Hamm and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986-07-22 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . one of the most coherent and unified collaborative works in the field of Russian history." —American Historical Review "This book excels in capturing the colors, tastes, sounds, and smells of Imperial Russia's rapidly growing, ethnically divided cities . . . " —Journal of Interdisciplinary History " . . . must reading for those interested in Russian urban and social history." —Slavic Review "This is a rich and informative book . . . " —Journal of Social History From the Great Reforms that began in the 1860s to the revolutions of 1917, the Russian Empire experienced a period of explosive urban growth. This unique and important volume examines the changes it brought in eight of the Empire's largest cities.
