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Book Synopsis The Radiant Past by : Michael Burawoy
Download or read book The Radiant Past written by Michael Burawoy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communism, once heralded as the "radiant future" of all humanity, has now become part of Eastern Europe's past. What does the record say about the legacy of communism as an organizational system? Michael Burawoy and Janos Lukacs consider this question from the standpoint of the Hungarian working class. Between 1983 and 1990 the authors carried out intensive studies in two core Hungarian industries, machine building and steel production, to produce the first extended participant-observation study of work and politics in state socialism. "A fascinating and engagingly written eyewitness report on proletarian life in the waning years of goulash communism. . . . A richly rewarding book, one that should interest political scientists in a variety of subfields, from area specialists and comparativists to political economists, as well as those interested in Marxist and post-Marxist theory."—Elizabeth Kiss, American Political Science Review "A very rich book. . . . It does not merely offer another theory of transition, but also presents a clear interpretive scheme, combined with sociological theory and vivid ethnographic description."—Ireneusz Bialecki, Contemporary Sociology "Its informed skepticism of post-Communist liberal euphoria, its concern for workers, and its fine ethnographic details make this work valuable."—"àkos Róna-Tas, American Journal of Sociology
Book Synopsis Radiant: Fifty Remarkable Women in Church History by : Richard M. Hannula
Download or read book Radiant: Fifty Remarkable Women in Church History written by Richard M. Hannula and published by Canon Press & Book Service. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radiant records the triumph of the gospel as Christian women faced kings and governors, soldiers and wild beasts, Japanese guards and Muslim raiders, fire, exile, Nazis, cannibals, riots, and more. "Look to heaven and forsake the world" has been their cry for two thousand years, and in Christ these women became invincible. From South America to Europe, from China to Africa to the Wild West, in prisons and in throne rooms, the Christian heroines of Radiant have left a stunning legacy. These short and moving biographies for young people introduce fifty often unfamiliar champions of the faith: women like Ida Kahn, who opened the first hospital in a Chinese city of 300,000 people; Lady Anne Hamilton, who rode with the Covenanter cavalry at the decisive Battle of Berwick; and Anngrace Taban, who was forced to type secret battle plans for the Sudan People's Liberation Army.
Book Synopsis Russia Before The 'Radiant Future' by : Michael Confino
Download or read book Russia Before The 'Radiant Future' written by Michael Confino and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major historians of prerevolutionary Russia has collected in this volume some of his most important essays. Written over a number of years, these pioneering works have been revised and updated and are complemented by others being published for the first time. Thematically, they cover major subjects in Imperial Russian history and in historical writing, such as ideas and their role in historical change; the intelligentsia, the nobility, and peasant society; and historiography. The twelve essays raise cardinal questions about current scholarship on Russian history before the upheavals of 1917 and offer original interpretations that are of interest to the educated layman as well as the professional historian.
Book Synopsis Russia Before the "radiant Future" by : Michael Confino
Download or read book Russia Before the "radiant Future" written by Michael Confino and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examine themes in the history of imperial Russia and historical writing, raising questions about current scholarship on Russian history before the 1917 Revolution.
Book Synopsis Russian Village Prose by : Kathleen F. Parthé
Download or read book Russian Village Prose written by Kathleen F. Parthé and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Parth offers the first comprehensive examination of the controversial literary movement Russian Village Prose. From the 1950s to the decline of the movement in the 1970s, Valentin Rasputin, Fedor Abramov, and other writers drew on "luminous" memories of their rural childhoods to evoke a thousand-year-old pattern of life that was disappearing as they wrote. In their lyrical descriptions of a vanishing world, they expressed nostalgia for Russia's past and fears for the nation's future; they opposed collectivized agriculture, and fought to preserve traditional art and architecture and to protect the environment. Assessing the place of Village Prose in the newly revised canon of twentieth-century Russian literature, Parth maintains that these writers consciously ignored and undermined Socialist Realism, and created the most aesthetically coherent and ideologically important body of published writings to appear in the Soviet Union between Stalin's death and Gorbachev's ascendancy. In the 1970s, Village Prose was seen as moderately nationalist and conservative in spirit. After 1985, however, statements by several of its practitioners caused the movement to be reread as a possible stimulus for chauvinistic, anti-Semitic groups like Pamyat. This important development is treated here with a thorough discussion of all the political implications of these rural narratives. Nevertheless, the center of Parth's work remains her exploration of the parameters that constitute a "code of reading" for works of Village Prose. The appendixes contain a translation and analysis of a particularly fine example of Russian Village Prose--Aleksei Leonov's "Kondyr."
Download or read book Radiant Purpose written by Semone Seavers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who am I? Why am I here on the earth? These important questions reside in the heart of every person. What you may not realize is that identity and purpose are not elusive things that can never be found. They are not based on past mistakes, present successes, or the opinions of others around you. Your identity and your purpose are rooted in the heart of God. Many people spend a great deal of time living from a misplaced identity-internally believing they are someone other than who God says they are: "I'm always going to be a failure. I'm not that smart. I am ugly. I am trash. I am defined by my past mistakes."I've been there. I have believed many of these lies, and more. I have dealt with the shame of sexual abuse, the rejection and abandonment of an absent father, and the guilt of moral failure. All of which led to me having an unhealthy self-image, feeling like I had to work to please God and people, and ultimately hating the person I was.My story has been a love story, where Jesus has pursued me and fought for my life even when I believed many lies about who I was, as well as the gifts and calling He had given me. I have found freedom, love, joy, and grace in Him. If I can come to a place of enjoying the abundant life-knowing that I am a beloved daughter of the King with a vibrant purpose-then anyone can.
Download or read book Radiant Days written by Elizabeth Hand and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is a painter. He is a poet. Their art bridges time. It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. It is also 1870. The teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to the images and voice that will make his name. The meshed power of words and art thins the boundaries between the present and the past - and allows these two troubled, brilliant artists to enter each other's worlds. Radiant Days is a peerless follow- up to Elizabeth Hand's unforgettable, multiply starred Illyria.
Download or read book Radiant Fugitives written by Nawaaz Ahmed and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR PUBLISHING TRIANGLE'S EDMUND WHITE DEBUT FICTION AWARD In the last weeks of her pregnancy, a Muslim Indian lesbian living in San Francisco receives a visit from her estranged mother and sister that surfaces long held secrets and betrayals in this "sweeping family saga . . . with the beautiful specificity of real lives lived, loved, and fought for" (Entertainment Weekly) Working as a consultant for Kamala Harris’s attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself in the West, despite still struggling with her father’s long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian. Now, nine months pregnant and estranged from the Black father of her unborn son, Seema seeks solace in the company of those she once thought lost to her: her ailing mother, Nafeesa, traveling alone to California from Chennai, and her devoutly religious sister, Tahera, a doctor living in Texas with her husband and children. But instead of a joyful reconciliation anticipating the birth of a child, the events of this fateful week unearth years of betrayal, misunderstanding, and complicated layers of love—a tapestry of emotions as riveting and disparate as the era itself. Told from the point of view of Seema’s child at the moment of his birth, and infused with the poetry of Wordsworth and Keats and verses from the Quran, Radiant Fugitives is a moving tale of a family and a country grappling with acceptance, forgiveness, and enduring love.
Book Synopsis The American Journal of Science and Arts by :
Download or read book The American Journal of Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles by : James Augustus Henry Murray
Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by : Lydia Millet
Download or read book Oh Pure and Radiant Heart written by Lydia Millet and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millet's latest novel is a black-comic tour de force depicting the "second coming" of atomic bomb creators Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard. Despite being dead, these scientists are spotted in Santa Fe by a shy librarian, who joins them on a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C.
Book Synopsis The Radiant Way by : Margaret Drabble
Download or read book The Radiant Way written by Margaret Drabble and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel goes back through the lives of three women, a psychoanalyst, an art historian and a good woman who all met at Cambridge in the 1950s.
Book Synopsis New Walks in Old Ways by : Alvin Howard Sanders
Download or read book New Walks in Old Ways written by Alvin Howard Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Disobedient Generation by : Alan Sica
Download or read book The Disobedient Generation written by Alan Sica and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Disobedient Generation collects newly written autobiographies by an international cross-section of well-known sociologists, all of them "children of the '60s". It illuminates the human experience of living through that decade as apprentice scholars and activists, encountering the issues of class, race, the Establishment, the decline of traditional religion, feminism, war, and the sexual revolution. In each case the interlinked crises of young adulthood, rapid change, and nascent professional careers shaped this generation's private and public selves.
Book Synopsis Philosophy in Post-Communist Europe by :
Download or read book Philosophy in Post-Communist Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the richness of contemporary philosophical reflection in Eastern and Central Europe. Philosophers from Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, and the United States discuss the status of democracy, nationalism, language, economics, education, women, and philosophy itself in the aftermath of communism. Fresh ideas are combined with renewed traditions as poignant problems are confronted.
Download or read book Solovyovo written by Margaret Paxson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ethnography of a Russian village: the everyday social and agricultural routines of the village as well as religous practices, cosmology, beliefs and practices surrounding health and illness, the melding of Orthodox and communist traditions and their post-Soviet evolution.
Book Synopsis Imagining the Past by : Colleen Manassa
Download or read book Imagining the Past written by Colleen Manassa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years before Homer immortalized the Trojan Horse, the ancient Egyptians had already composed a tale of soldiers hiding Ali Baba-like in baskets to capture a besieged city. Shortly after the rise to power of the warrior pharaoh Ramesses II, Egyptian authors began to write stories about battles and conquest. However, these stories were not set in the present, but in the past: they were the world's first works of historical fiction. These literary recreations of past events, which preserve fascinating mixtures of fact and fiction, provide unparalleled information about topics as diverse as ancient Egyptian historiography, religion, and notions of humor and wit. Imagining the Past is the first volume to provide complete translations and commentary for the historical fiction composed during Egypt's New Kingdom. The four works include The Quarrel of Apepi and Seqenenre, The Capture of Joppa, Thutmose III in Asia, The Libyan Battle Story. An introduction explores Egyptian conceptions of the past, the universe of historical and literary texts in New Kingdom Egypt, and the definition of a new genre of Egyptian literature. Extensive commentary and new translations appear within each chapter, and a concluding analysis summarizes the audience and function of historical fiction as well as theology and historiography within the tales. Despite the fragmentary nature of the papyrus copies, the thorough research into the literary, political, and social context of each tale allows a modern reader to explore this forgotten literary subfield and appreciate the stories as works of historical fiction.
