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The Volga

Author : Janet M. Hartley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245645
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Volga written by Janet M. Hartley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga--the first to fully reveal its vital place in Russian history The longest river in Europe, the Volga stretches over three and a half thousand km from the heart of Russia to the Caspian Sea, separating west from east. The river has played a crucial role in the history of the peoples who are now a part of the Russian Federation--and has united and divided the land through which it flows. Janet Hartley explores the history of Russia through the Volga from the seventh century to the present day. She looks at it as an artery for trade and as a testing ground for the Russian Empire's control of the borderlands, at how it featured in Russian literature and art, and how it was crucial for the outcome of the Second World War at Stalingrad. This vibrant account unearths what life on the river was really like, telling the story of its diverse people and its vital place in Russian history.

The Volga Germans

Author : Sigrid Weidenweber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938848070
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Volga Germans written by Sigrid Weidenweber and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the establishment of the German colonies along the Volga River near Saratov in the 18th century and the development of these colonies through the 19th century and up to the point of the Russian Revolution, drawn from historic source material.

Down the Volga

Author : Marq De Villiers
Publisher : New York : Viking
ISBN 13 : 9780670843534
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Down the Volga written by Marq De Villiers and published by New York : Viking. This book was released on 1991 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author combines travel writing with history and folklore as he travels along the Volga River in the heart of modern Russia.

Rivers, Memory, And Nation-building

Author : Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782384324
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Rivers, Memory, And Nation-building written by Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers figure prominently in a nation’s historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Beginning in the pre-modern world, both rivers served as critical trade routes connecting cultures in an extensive exchange network, while also sustaining populations through their surrounding wetlands and bottomlands. In modern times, “Mother Volga” and the “Father of Waters” became integral parts of national identity, contributing to a sense of Russian and American exceptionalism. Furthermore, both rivers were drafted into service as the means to modernize the nation-state through hydropower and navigation. Despite being forced into submission for modern-day hydrological regimes, the Volga and Mississippi Rivers persist in the collective memory and continue to offer solace, recreation, and sustenance. Through their histories we derive a more nuanced view of human interaction with the environment, which adds another lens to our understanding of the past.

Revolution on the Volga

Author : Donald J. Raleigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Revolution on the Volga written by Donald J. Raleigh and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Volga Rises in Europe

Author : Curzio Malaparte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841580968
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Volga Rises in Europe written by Curzio Malaparte and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Italy was allied with Germany in World War II, the Italian viewpoint on the war often differed sharply from that of the Germans. Malaparte was an eyewitness to the campaigns in Finland, the Ukraine, and Leningrad, and has left behind a moving account of many small incidents in the day-to-day conduct of the war

Swimming the Volga

Author : Peter Zwack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734006001
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Swimming the Volga written by Peter Zwack and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swimming the Volga is an eyewitness account of day-to-day life in a provincial Russian city during a remarkable period in world history just before the names Putin and Russia became inseparable. After seventy years of tyranny and oppression under a series of iron-fisted regimes, Russia turned away from its failed social and political experiment. It took its first steps toward adopting a democratic and free-market system under perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). During Zwack's regular visits to Kalinin, he witnessed firsthand ordinary people's lives turned upside down by forces they had little or no control over. In the Wild West of the 'new' Russia, a few enterprising Russians quickly figured out how to make vast amounts of money-usually illegally. A nascent mafia mastered the art of bringing necessary and desirable goods to market and extracting 'protection' money from new businesses. Most Russians, however, watched their life savings disappear in two massive devaluations of the ruble in the 1990s. Written in the days just before the names Putin and Russia became inseparable, Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack (Ret)'s Swimming the Volga is a unique time capsule of a remarkable period in world history, one that began with the final chapter of the Cold War and ended with the hijacking of Russia's future by rapacious financiers, pyramid schemes, and a new criminal element setting the stage for Putin's arrival, and with it, a more assertive and revanchist Russia. Along the way, the cast of memorable characters in the story reveals their very human dreams, ambitions, fears, missteps, cynicism, resilience, and disillusionment. What will make Swimming the Volga stand out in the marketplace is the author, who lived and experienced Russian culture firsthand. His many accomplished years of high-ranking military authority, extensive knowledge and grasp of the language and culture, and brilliance as an educator, speaker, and writer. Former Attaché to the Russian Federation, Zwack is a current Global Fellow at The Kennan Institute for Advanced Russia Studies at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. No one is more qualified to write and speak on this subject than him.

The Volga Germans

Author : Fred C. Koch
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271038144
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Volga Germans written by Fred C. Koch and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Allied Propaganda and the Collapse of the German Empire in 1918

Author : George G. Brunts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Allied Propaganda and the Collapse of the German Empire in 1918 written by George G. Brunts and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stalingrad

Author : Antonio Gil
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682474518
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Stalingrad written by Antonio Gil and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stalingrad. From August 1942 to February 1943 this model industrial city, bathed by the waters of the Volga, was home to the bloodiest battle of World War II. Stalingrad: Letters from the Volga offers a fast-paced depiction of this titanic struggle: explicit, crude, and without concessions—just as the war and the memory of all those involved demands. The battle rendered devastating results. Almost two million human beings were marked forever in its crosshairs, a frightening figure comprised of the dead, injured, sick, captured, and missing. Military and civilians alike paid with their lives for the personal fight between Stalin and Hitler, which materialized in long months of primitive conflict among the smoking ruins of Stalingrad and its surroundings. Stalingrad: Letters from the Volga presents the battle, beginning to end, through the eyes of Russian and German soldiers. Take a chronological tour of the massacre, relive the fights, and feel the drama of trying to survive in a relentless hell of ice and snow."

Mission to the Volga

Author : Ahmad Ibn Fadlan
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479829757
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Mission to the Volga written by Ahmad Ibn Fadlan and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic. A pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. In this colorful documentary from the tenth century, the enigmatic Ibn Fadlan relates his experiences as part of an embassy sent by Caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious instruction to the recently-converted King of the Bulghars. During eleven months of grueling travel, Ibn Fadlan records the marvels he witnesses on his journey, including an aurora borealis and the white nights of the North. Crucially, he offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, body painting, and a striking account of a ship funeral. Together, these anecdotes illuminate a vibrant world of diversity during the heyday of the Abbasid Empire, narrated with as much curiosity and zeal as they were perceived by its observant beholder.

Two Arabic Travel Books

Author : Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479803502
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Two Arabic Travel Books written by Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its ports, we find a priceless cargo of information; here are the first foreign descriptions of tea and porcelain, a panorama of unusual social practices, cannibal islands, and Indian holy men--a marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella. In Mission to the Volga, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. This colorful documentary by Ibn Fadlan relates the trials and tribulations of an embassy of diplomats and missionaries sent by caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious instruction to the recently-converted King of the Bulghars. During eleven months of grueling travel, Ibn Fadlan records the marvels he witnesses on his journey, including an aurora borealis and the white nights of the North. Crucially, he offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, tattoos, and a striking account of a ship funeral.

Hardship to Homeland

Author : Richard D. Scheuerman
Publisher : Washington State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0874223962
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Hardship to Homeland written by Richard D. Scheuerman and published by Washington State University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardship to Homeland recounts Volga Germans’ unique story in a saga that stretches from Germany to Russia and across the Atlantic. Burdened by war and debt, life was extremely difficult for impoverished European peasants until a former German princess came to power. Seeking to increase borderland population, provide a buffer against Ottoman Empire incursions, and bring agricultural ingenuity to her country, Russian empress Catherine II issued a remarkable 1763 manifesto inviting Europeans to immigrate. Their passage paid, colonists would become Russian citizens, yet retain their language and culture. For the next four years, some 27,000 settlers came--mostly from Hesse and the Palatinate--founding 104 communities along both banks of the Volga River near Saratov and introducing numerous agricultural innovations. But the Russian Senate revoked the original settlement terms in 1871. Facing poor economic conditions and a forced Russian army draft, 100,000 Volga Germans joined other immigrant waves to the New World. After a decade of hardship in the Midwest, some began moving to the Pacific Northwest, and their westward movement was one of the region’s largest single ethnic group migrations. From outposts in Washington State they spread throughout the Columbia Basin, along the coast, and into northern Idaho, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alberta, transforming their new homelands into centers of western productivity and significantly influencing North American religion, politics, and social development. Hardship to Homeland is a revised and expanded reprint of The Volga Germans: Pioneers of the Northwest, published in 1985 and long out of print. This edition offers a new introduction as well as Volga German folk stories from the Pacific Northwest, collected and retold by Richard D. Scheuerman, with illustrations by Jim Gerlitz.

The Volga River

Author : Tim McNeese
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791082474
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Volga River written by Tim McNeese and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an introduction to Russia's Volga river, tracing the history and geography of Europe's longest river, including a timeline of events, a bibliography, and suggestions for further reading.

The Volga River

Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 161228373X
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Volga River written by Joanne Mattern and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Volga River is the longest river in Europe and one of the most important rivers in Russia. This slow–moving waterway is home to a huge variety of plants and animals and has been a lifeline for various ethnic groups for thousands of years. From its humble beginnings in the Valdai Hills to its mouth at the Caspian Sea, the Volga has provided Russia’s people with food, transportation, power, drinking water, and much more. Its shores and cities have been the site of many historical events, most notably the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II, and faces many ecological challenges as it struggles to survive in the modern era. Learn about the “Mother Volga,” its people, its history, and its vital place in Russian culture in this fascinating story of a mighty river.

Volga Tatars

Author : Azade-Ayse Rorlich
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 0817983937
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Volga Tatars written by Azade-Ayse Rorlich and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first Western language study that investigates the history of the Volga Tatars since the Tenth Century A.D. The central theme of the book is the shaping and evolution of the identity of these people, focusing on the history of the first non-Christian and non-Slavic people incorporated into the Russian state.

MARCH TO THE VOLGA

Author : D. Philipp Kaiser
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0984923012
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book MARCH TO THE VOLGA written by D. Philipp Kaiser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the year 1764 in a land far different from the Germany today, a land ruled by feudal princes and religious zealots. The terrible Seven Years' War is done, but the tales of religious atrocities from the long past Thirty Years' War are still fresh in the minds of all. No tolerance at this time; the Catholics and Protestants openly hate each other. A young Lutheran country couple, along with a strange new city friend, slowly travel from village Heilbronn north to Lubeck, one step at a time towards the "Promised Land." Sailing to, and walking across much of Russia, our couple arrives to help build the Volga Colony of Balzer.Over the next 130 years, they and their descendants triumph over evils and carve out a bountiful life, before again moving on to the new "Promised Land," AMERICA, settling in the San Joaquin Valley near Fresno, California. MARCH TO THE VOLGA is one in a series of historical fiction novels, each based on a different Deutsche family in the 1760's. www.MarchToTheVolga.com