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The "Domostroi"

Author : Carolyn Johnston Pouncy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801471664
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The "Domostroi" written by Carolyn Johnston Pouncy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manual on household management, the Domostroi is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. It depicts a society that prized religious orthodoxy, reliance on tradition, and absolute subordination of the individual to the family and the state. Specific instructions tell how to arrange hay, visit monasteries, distill vodka, treat servants, entertain clergy, cut out robes, and carry out many other daily activities. Carolyn Johnston Pouncy here offers, with an informative introduction, the first complete English translation.

A History of Women in Russia

Author : Barbara Evans Clements
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253001048
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book A History of Women in Russia written by Barbara Evans Clements and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the key political, economic, social, and cultural developments in Russian women’s history from 900 to 2010, and their impact on the nation. Synthesizing several decades of scholarship by historians East and West, Barbara Evans Clements traces the major developments in the history of women in Russia and their impact on the history of the nation. Sketching lived experiences across the centuries, she demonstrates the key roles that women played in shaping Russia’s political, economic, social, and cultural development for over a millennium. The story Clements tells is one of hardship and endurance, but also one of achievement by women who, for example, promoted the conversion to Christianity, governed estates, created great art, rebelled against the government, established charities, built the tanks that rolled into Berlin in 1945, and flew the planes that strafed the retreating Wehrmacht. This daunting and complex history is presented in an engaging survey that integrates this scholarship into the field of Russian and post-Soviet history. “The product of a lifetime of engagement by one of the preeminent authorities on the history of Russian women, the book reflects the author’s deep expertise in primary sources as well as her familiarity with the secondary literature.” —Choi Chatterjee, California State University Los Angeles “A significant achievement in scholarship on Russian women and gender. . . . Among this text’s many strengths are its lucidity, readability, and engaging synthesis of a large number of both primary and secondary sources. . . . Its erudite contextualization of the history of Russian women within a larger European framework ensures its interest for and accessibility to a wide readership, especially those outside of the Slavic field.” —Slavic and East European Journal “Clements’s writing is engaging, clear, and jargon free, making this book easily accessible to a general audience. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice “This daunting and complex history is presented in an engaging survey that integrates this scholarship into the field of Russian and post-Soviet history.” —Journal of Turkish Weekly

Icon and Devotion

Author : Oleg Tarasov
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 186189550X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Icon and Devotion written by Oleg Tarasov and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-01-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Icon and Devotion offers the first extensive presentation in English of the making and meaning of Russian icons. The craft of icon-making is set into the context of forms of worship that emerged in the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid-seventeenth century. Oleg Tarasov shows how icons have held a special place in Russian consciousness because they represented idealized images of Holy Russia. He also looks closely at how and why icons were made. Wonder-working saints and the leaders of such religious schisms as the Old Believers appear in these pages, which are illustrated with miniature paintings, lithographs and engravings never before published in the English-speaking world. By tracing the artistic vocabulary, techniques and working methods of icon painters, Tarasov shows how icons have been integral to the history of Russian art, influenced by folk and mainstream currents alike. As well as articulating the specifically Russian piety they invoke, he analyzes the significance of icons in the cultural life of modern Russia in the context of popular prints and poster design.

Medieval Russia

Author : Basil Dmytryshyn
Publisher : Harcourt Brace College Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Russia written by Basil Dmytryshyn and published by Harcourt Brace College Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revises and expands the collection of basic sources on political, social, economic, and cultural life in medieval Russia, designed for the student, the general reader, and the scholar who is not a specialist. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Russia and the Golden Horde

Author : Charles J. Halperin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253013666
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Russia and the Golden Horde written by Charles J. Halperin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987-07-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revelatory study of Russian medieval history and the age of Mongolian conquest “infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations” (History). In the 13th century, a Mongolian confederation known as The Golden Horde dominated a vast region including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the Caucuses. Though it would hold power into the 15th century, the influence of the Mongolian Empire on Russian history and culture has been all but ignored. Only in recent years have historians, archeologists, and philologists started to shed much needed light on this significant period of Mongol rule. In this enlightening new study, historian Charles Halperin assesses these recent findings to provide a comprehensive view of this chapter in Russian medieval history, offering a new interpretation of what role the Mongols played in the story of Russia. A Selection of the History Book Club “Combining rigorous analysis of the major scholarly findings with his own research, Halperin has produced both a much-needed synthesis and an important original work." –Library Journal

By Honor Bound

Author : Nancy Shields Kollmann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501706950
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book By Honor Bound written by Nancy Shields Kollmann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by a culture of honor. Here one of the foremost scholars of early modern Russia explores the intricate and highly stylized codes that made up this culture. Nancy Shields Kollmann describes how these codes were manipulated to construct identity and enforce social norms—and also to defend against insults, to pursue vendettas, and to unsettle communities. She offers evidence for a new view of the relationship of state and society in the Russian empire, and her richly comparative approach enhances knowledge of statebuilding in premodern Europe. By presenting Muscovite state and society in the context of medieval and early modern Europe, she exposes similarities that blur long-standing distinctions between Russian and European history.Through the prism of honor, Kollmann examines the interaction of the Russian state and its people in regulating social relations and defining an individual's rank. She finds vital information in a collection of transcripts of legal suits brought by elites and peasants alike to avenge insult to honor. The cases make clear the conservative role honor played in society as well as the ability of men and women to employ this body of ideas to address their relations with one another and with the state. Kollmann demonstrates that the grand princes—and later the tsars—tolerated a surprising degree of local autonomy throughout their rapidly expanding realm. Her work marks a stark contrast with traditional Russian historiography, which exaggerates the power of the state and downplays the volition of society.

The House in Russian Literature

Author : Joost van Baak
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042029153
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The House in Russian Literature written by Joost van Baak and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The domestic theme has a tremendous anthropological, literary and cultural significance. The purpose of this book is to analyse and interpret the most important realisations and tendencies of this thematic complex in the history of Russian literature. It is the first systematic book-length exploration of the meaning and development of the House theme in Russian literature of the past 200 years. It studies the ideological, psychological and moral meanings which Russian cultural and literary tradition have invested in the house or projected on it in literary texts. Central to this study’s approach is the concept of the House Myth, consisting of a set of basic fabular elements and a set of general types of House images. This House Myth provides the general point of reference from which the literary works were analyzed and compared. With the help of this analytical procedure characteristics of individual authors could be described as well as recurrent patterns and features discerned in the way Russian literature dealt with the House and its thematics, thus reflecting characteristics of Russian literary world pictures, Russian mentalities and Russian attitudes towards life. This book is of interest for students of Russian literature as well as for those interested in the House as a cultural and literary topic, in the semiotics of literature, and in relations between culture, anthropology and literature.

The Domostroi

Author : Carolyn Johnston Pouncy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781422365953
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book The Domostroi written by Carolyn Johnston Pouncy and published by . This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ¿Domostroi,¿ which literally means household order, is a 16th-century Russian guide to life for noblemen, an exhaustive inventory of homilies, rules & recipes ranging from how to instill obedience in a wife to instructions for making mead & storing cabbage. It is one of the few sources on the social history & secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. The ¿Domostroi¿ depicts a society that prized religious orthodoxy, reliance on tradition, & absolute subordination of the individual to the family & the state. Specific instructions tell how to arrange hay, visit monasteries, distill vodka, treat servants, entertain clergy, cut out robes, & carry out many other daily activities. Informative intro. ¿First complete English translation.¿ Illus.

Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900

Author : Valerie A. Kivelson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501750666
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 written by Valerie A. Kivelson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sourcebook provides the first systematic overview of witchcraft laws and trials in Russia and Ukraine from medieval times to the late nineteenth century. Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 weaves scholarly commentary with never-before-published primary source materials translated from Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. These sources include the earliest references to witchcraft and sorcery, secular and religious laws regarding witchcraft and possession, full trial transcripts, and a wealth of magical spells. The documents present a rich panorama of daily life and reveal the extraordinary power of magical words. Editors Valerie A. Kivelson and Christine D. Worobec present new analyses of the workings and evolution of legal systems, the interplay and tensions between church and state, and the prosaic concerns of the women and men involved in witchcraft proceedings. The extended documentary commentaries also explore the shifting boundaries and fraught political relations between Russia and Ukraine.

The Bathhouse at Midnight

Author : William Francis Ryan
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271019673
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Bathhouse at Midnight written by William Francis Ryan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this book refers to the classic time and place for magic, witchcraft, and divination in Russia. The Bathhouse at Midnight, by one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, surveys all forms of magic, both learned and popular, in Russia from the fifth to the eighteenth century. While no book on the subject could be exhaustive, The Bathhouse at Midnight does describe and assess all the literary sources of magic, witchcraft, astrology, alchemy, and divination from Kiev Rus and Imperial Russia, and to some extent Ukraine and Belorussia. Where possible, Ryan identifies the sources of the texts (usually Greek, Arabic, or West European) and makes parallels to other cultures, ranging from classical antiquity to Finnic. He finds that Russia shares most of its magic and divination with the rest of Europe. Subjects covered include the Evil Eye, the Number of the Beast, omens, dreams, talismans and amulets, plants, gemstones, and other materials thought to possess magic properties. The first chapter gives a historical overview, and the final chapter summarizes the political, religious, and legal aspects of the history of magic in Russia. The author also provides translations of some key texts. The Bathhouse at Midnight will be invaluable for anyone&—student, teacher, or general reader&—with an interest in Russia, magic, or the occult. It is unique in its field and is set to become the definitive study of Russian magic.

Reference Guide to Russian Literature

Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134260776
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Reference Guide to Russian Literature written by Neil Cornwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.

Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union

Author : R. R. Milner-Gulland
Publisher : Facts on File
ISBN 13 : 9780816022076
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union written by R. R. Milner-Gulland and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1000-year history of Russian culture and society intermingles illustrations, interpretation, and special features to provide an in-depth background to present Russia

A History of Russian Economic Thought

Author : John M. Letiche
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520318692
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book A History of Russian Economic Thought written by John M. Letiche and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 710 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 1964.

Ivan the Terrible

Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781567119008
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Don Nardo and published by Blackbirch Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the infamous czar.

A History of Russian Law

Author : Ferdinand J.M. Feldbrugge
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004352147
Total Pages : 1117 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A History of Russian Law written by Ferdinand J.M. Feldbrugge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 1117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation of a powerful state by the first Christian rulers of Russia, its subsequent fragmentation and subjugation to the Mongol khan and its determined reassembly by the Muscovy princes – all of this finds its reflection in seven centuries of legal development

Women in Russian History

Author : Natalia Pushkareva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315480433
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Women in Russian History written by Natalia Pushkareva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first survey of the history of women in Russia to be published in any language, this book is itself an historic event -- the result of the collaboration of the leading Russian and American specialists on Russian women's history. The book is divided in to four chronological parts corresponding to eras of Russian history: (I) Kievan/Mongol (10th - 15th centuries); (II) Muscovite ( 16th - 17th centuries); (III) 18th century; and (IV) 19th - early 20th centuries. Each part gives coverage to four main topics: (1) The role of prominent women in public life, with biographical sketches of women who attained prominence in political or cultural life; (2) Women's daily life and family roles; (3) Women's status under the law; (4) Material culture and in particular women's dress as an expression of their place in society.

Imitations of Life

Author : Louise McReynolds
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822327905
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Imitations of Life written by Louise McReynolds and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVUses the under-studied genre of melodrama as a critical prism for understanding Russian/Soviet history, politics and culture--in particular, the uses to which popular culture was put in the Soviet period./div