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Author : Alexander I. Nazaroff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Land of the Russian People written by Alexander I. Nazaroff and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory Feifer
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1455509655
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Russians written by Gregory Feifer and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer comes an incisive portrait that draws on vivid personal stories to portray the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries-and continue to do so today. Russians explores the seeming paradoxes of life in Russia by unraveling the nature of its people: what is it in their history, their desires, and their conception of themselves that makes them baffling to the West? Using the insights of his decade as a journalist in Russia, Feifer corrects pervasive misconceptions by showing that much of what appears inexplicable about the country is logical when seen from the inside. He gets to the heart of why the world's leading energy producer continues to exasperate many in the international community. And he makes clear why President Vladimir Putin remains popular even as the gap widens between the super-rich and the great majority of poor. Traversing the world's largest country from the violent North Caucasus to Arctic Siberia, Feifer conducted hundreds of intimate conversations about everything from sex and vodka to Russia's complex relationship with the world. From fabulously wealthy oligarchs to the destitute elderly babushki who beg in Moscow's streets, he tells the story of a society bursting with vitality under a leadership rooted in tradition and often on the edge of collapse despite its authoritarian power. Feifer also draws on formative experiences in Russia's past and illustrative workings of its culture to shed much-needed light on the purposely hidden functioning of its society before, during, and after communism. Woven throughout is an intimate, first-person account of his family history, from his Russian mother's coming of age among Moscow's bohemian artistic elite to his American father's harrowing vodka-fueled run-ins with the KGB. What emerges is a rare portrait of a unique land of extremes whose forbidding geography, merciless climate, and crushing corruption has nevertheless produced some of the world's greatest art and some of its most remarkable scientific advances. Russians is an expertly observed, gripping profile of a people who will continue challenging the West for the foreseeable future.
Author : Wright Watts Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Who are the Russians? written by Wright Watts Miller and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aleksandr I. Nazarov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Alexander Nazaroff: The land of the Russian people written by Aleksandr I. Nazarov and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Aleksandr I. NAZAROV
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The Land of the Russian People, Etc. [With Plates.]. written by Aleksandr I. NAZAROV and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Rogers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801457955
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Old Faith and the Russian Land written by Douglas Rogers and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Believers, as these dissenters later came to be known, have maintained a presence in the town ever since. The townspeople of Sepych have also been serfs, free peasants, collective farmers, and, now, shareholders in a post-Soviet cooperative. Douglas Rogers traces connections between the town and some of the major transformations of Russian history, showing how townspeople have responded to a long series of attempts to change them and their communities: tsarist-era efforts to regulate family life and stamp out Old Belief on the Stroganov estates, Soviet collectivization drives and antireligious campaigns, and the marketization, religious revival, and ongoing political transformations of post-Soviet times. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival and manuscript sources, Rogers argues that religious, political, and economic practice are overlapping arenas in which the people of Sepych have striven to be ethical—in relation to labor and money, food and drink, prayers and rituals, religious books and manuscripts, and the surrounding material landscape. He tracks the ways in which ethical sensibilities—about work and prayer, hierarchy and inequality, gender and generation—have shifted and recombined over time. Rogers concludes that certain expectations about how to be an ethical person have continued to orient townspeople in Sepych over the course of nearly three centuries for specific, identifiable, and often unexpected reasons. Throughout, he demonstrates what a historical and ethnographic study of ethics might look like and uses this approach to ask new questions of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet history.
Author : Albert Rhys Williams
Publisher : New York, Harcourt, Brace
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Russians written by Albert Rhys Williams and published by New York, Harcourt, Brace. This book was released on 1943 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg Nickles
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778793021
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Russia written by Greg Nickles and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated photographs describe the land, people, culture, and economy of Russia.
Author : Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Mikhaĭlov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Soviet Russia, the Land and Its People written by Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Mikhaĭlov and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen M. Norris
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253001765
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Russia's People of Empire written by Stephen M. Norris and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the multicultural world of historical Russia through the life stories of 31 individuals that exemplify the cross-cultural exchanges in the country from the late 1500s to post-Soviet Russia.
Author : Barbara Alpern Engel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199947872
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Russia in World History written by Barbara Alpern Engel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume offers a lively introduction to Russia's dramatic history and the striking changes that characterize its story. Distinguished authors Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin show how Russia's peoples met the constant challenges posed by geography, climate, availability of natural resources, and devastating foreign invasions, and rose to become the world's second largest land empire. The book describes the circumstances that led to the world's first communist society in 1917, and traces the global consequences of Russia's long confrontation with the United States, which took place virtually everywhere and for decades provided a model for societies seeking development independent of capitalism. This book also brings the story of Russia's arduous and costly climb to great power to a personal level through the stories of individual women and men-leading figures who played pivotal roles as well as less prominent individuals from a range of social backgrounds whose voices illuminate the human consequences of sweeping historical change. As was and is true of Russia itself, this story encompasses a wide variety of ethnicities, peoples who became part of the Russian empire and suffered or benefited from its leaders' efforts to meld a multiethnic polity into a coherent political entity. The book examines how Russia served as a conduit for people, ideas, and commodities flowing between east and west, north and south, and absorbed and adapted influences from both Europe and Asia and how it came to play an increasingly important role on a regional and, ultimately, global scale"--
Author : CAITLIN. FINLAYSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY. (PRODUCT ID 23958336). written by CAITLIN. FINLAYSON and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William M. Mandel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Russia Re-examined written by William M. Mandel and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William M. Mandel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book A New Look at Russia written by William M. Mandel and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674781184
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Russia written by Geoffrey A. Hosking and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises from the rubble, once again the great nation--a perfect scenario, but for one point: Russia was never a nation. And this, says the eminent historian Geoffrey Hosking, is at the heart of the Russians' dilemma today, as they grapple with the rudiments of nationhood. His book is about the Russia that never was, a three-hundred-year history of empire building at the expense of national identity. Russia begins in the sixteenth century, with the inception of one of the most extensive and diverse empires in history. Hosking shows how this undertaking, the effort of conquering, defending, and administering such a huge mixture of territories and peoples, exhausted the productive powers of the common people and enfeebled their civic institutions. Neither church nor state was able to project an image of "Russian-ness" that could unite elites and masses in a consciousness of belonging to the same nation. Hosking depicts two Russias, that of the gentry and of the peasantry, and reveals how the gap between them, widened by the Tsarist state's repudiation of the Orthodox messianic myth, continued to grow throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Here we see how this myth, on which the empire was originally based, returned centuries later in the form of the revolutionary movement, which eventually swept away the Tsarist Empire but replaced it with an even more universalist one. Hosking concludes his story in 1917, but shows how the conflict he describes continues to affect Russia right up to the present day.
Author : Alexander Nazaroff
Publisher : J.P. Lippincott
ISBN 13 : 9780397315147
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (151 download)
Download or read book The Land and People of Russia written by Alexander Nazaroff and published by J.P. Lippincott. This book was released on 1972-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the history, geography, people, political and economic development, and way of life of the vast and diverse country known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Author : Maurice Baring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Russian People written by Maurice Baring and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
