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Author : Hervé Baron de Gruben
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Germans at Louvain written by Hervé Baron de Gruben and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arup Banerji
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351381989
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Writing History in the Soviet Union written by Arup Banerji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Soviet Union has been charted in several studies over the decades. These depictions while combining accuracy, elegance, readability and imaginativeness, have failed to draw attention to the political and academic environment within which these histories were composed. Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the Past Work is aimed at understanding this environment. The book seeks to identify the significant hallmarks of the production of Soviet history by Soviet as well as Western historians. It traces how the Russian Revolution of 1917 triggered a shift in official policy towards historians and the publication of history textbooks for schools. In 1985, the Soviet past was again summoned for polemical revision as part and parcel of an attitude of openness (glasnost') and in this, literary figures joined their energies to those of historians. The Communist regime sought to equate the history of the country with that of the Communist Party itself in 1938 and 1962 and this imposed a blanket of conformity on history writing in the Soviet Union. The book also surveys the rich abundance of writing the Russian Revolution generated as well as the divergent approaches to the history of the period. The conditions for research in Soviet archives are described as an aspect of official monitoring of history writing. Another instance of this is the manner by which history textbooks have, through the years, been withdrawn from schools and others officially nursed into circulation. This intervention, occasioned in the present circumstance by statements by President Putin himself, in the manner in which history is taught in Russian schools, continues to this day. In other words, over the years, the regime has always worked to make the past work. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka
Author : Kristina Jõekalda
Publisher : Böhlau Köln
ISBN 13 : 3412516686
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (125 download)
Download or read book A Socialist Realist History? written by Kristina Jõekalda and published by Böhlau Köln. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Eastern European and Soviet states write their respective histories of art and architecture during 1940s–1960s? The articles address both the Stalinist period and the Khrushchev Thaw, when the Marxist-Leninist discourse on art history was "invented" and refined. Although this discourse was inevitably "Sovietized" in a process dictated from Moscow, a variety of distinct interpretations emerged from across the Soviet bloc in the light of local traditions, cultural politics and decisions of individual authors. Even if the new "official" discourse often left space open for national concerns, it also gave rise to a countermovement in response to the aggressive ideologization of art and the preeminence assigned to (Socialist) Realist aesthetics.
Author : Rob Hornsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030927
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union written by Rob Hornsby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hornsby draws on a range of declassified archival material to analyse political protest and government repression in post-Stalin USSR.
Author : Denis Kozlov
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442618957
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Thaw written by Denis Kozlov and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period from Stalin’s death in 1953 to the end of the 1960s marked a crucial epoch in Soviet history. Though not overtly revolutionary, this era produced significant shifts in policies, ideas, language, artistic practices, daily behaviours, and material life. It was also during this time that social, cultural, and intellectual processes in the USSR began to parallel those in the West (and particularly in Europe) as never before. This volume examines in fascinating detail the various facets of Soviet life during the 1950s and 1960s, a period termed the ‘Thaw.’ Featuring innovative research by historical, literary, and film scholars from across the world, this book helps to answer fundamental questions about the nature and ultimate fortune of the Soviet order – both in its internal dynamics and in its long-term and global perspectives.
Author : Stephen V. Bittner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801446061
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw written by Stephen V. Bittner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bittner explores how the neighborhood changed during the period of ideological relaxation under Khrushchev that came to be known as the thaw.
Author : Miriam Dobson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080145851X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Khrushchev's Cold Summer written by Miriam Dobson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus included not only victims of past purges but also those sentenced for criminal offenses. In Khrushchev's Cold Summer Miriam Dobson explores the impact of these returnees on communities and, more broadly, Soviet attempts to come to terms with the traumatic legacies of Stalin's terror. Confusion and disorientation undermined the regime's efforts at recovery. In the wake of Stalin's death, ordinary citizens and political leaders alike struggled to make sense of the country's recent bloody past and to cope with the complex social dynamics caused by attempts to reintegrate the large influx of returning prisoners, a number of whom were hardened criminals alienated and embittered by their experiences within the brutal camp system. Drawing on private letters as well as official reports on the party and popular mood, Dobson probes social attitudes toward the changes occurring in the first post-Stalin decade. Throughout, she features personal stories as articulated in the words of ordinary citizens, prisoners, and former prisoners. At the same time, she explores Soviet society's contradictory responses to the returnees and shows that for many the immediate post-Stalin years were anything but a breath of spring air after the long Stalinist winter.
Author : Juliane Fürst
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614505
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Stalin's Last Generation written by Juliane Fürst and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Stalin's last generation' was the last generation to come of age under Stalin, yet it was also the first generation to be socialized in the post-war period. Its young members grew up in a world that still carried many of the hallmarks of the Soviet Union's revolutionary period, yet their surroundings already showed the first signs of decay, stagnation, and disintegration. Stalin's last generation still knew how to speak 'Bolshevik', still believed in the power of Soviet heroes and still wished to construct socialism, yet they also liked to dance and dress in Western styles, they knew how to evade boring lectures and lessons in Marxism-Leninism, and they were keen to forge identities that were more individual than those offered by the state. In this book, Juliane Fürst creates a detailed picture of late Stalinist youth and youth culture, looking at young people from a variety of perspectives: as children of the war, as recipients and creators of propaganda, as perpetrators of crime, as representatives of fledgling subcultures, as believers, as critics, and as drop-outs. In the process, she illuminates not only the complex relationship between the Soviet state and its youth, but also provides a new interpretative framework for understanding late Stalinism - the impact of which on Soviet society's subsequent development has hitherto been underestimated, including its role in the ultimate demise of the USSR.
Author : Christine Varga-Harris
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501701843
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Stories of House and Home written by Christine Varga-Harris and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of House and Home is a social and cultural history of the massive construction campaign that Khrushchev instituted in 1957 to resolve the housing crisis in the Soviet Union and to provide each family its own apartment. Decent housing was deemed the key to a healthy, productive home life, which was essential to the realization of socialist collectivism. Drawing on archival materials, as well as memoirs, fiction, and the Soviet press, Christine Varga-Harris shows how the many aspects of this enormous state initiative—from neighborhood planning to interior design—sought to alleviate crowded, undignified living conditions and sculpt residents into ideal Soviet citizens. She also details how individual interests intersected with official objectives for Soviet society during the Thaw, a period characterized by both liberalization and vigilance in everyday life. Set against the backdrop of the widespread transition from communal to one-family living, Stories of House and Home explores the daily experiences and aspirations of Soviet citizens who were granted new apartments and those who continued to inhabit the old housing stock due to the chronic problems that beset the housing program. Varga-Harris analyzes the contradictions apparent in heroic advances and seemingly inexplicable delays in construction, model apartments boasting modern conveniences and decrepit dwellings, happy housewarmings and disappointing moves, and new residents and individuals requesting to exchange old apartments. She also reveals how Soviet citizens identified with the state and with the broader project of building socialism.
Author : Paul Sjeklocha
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Unofficial Art in the Soviet Union written by Paul Sjeklocha and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael O'Toole
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636046
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Language of Displayed Art written by Michael O'Toole and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his background as a linguist, O'Toole analyses in detail a number of major works of art to show how the semiotic approach relates a work's immediate impact to other aspects of our response to it: to the scene portrayed, to the social, intellectual and economic world within which the artist and his or her patrons worked, and to our own world. It further provides ways of talking about and interrelating aspects of composition, technique and the material qualities of the work.
Author : Polly Jones
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187211
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Myth, Memory, Trauma written by Polly Jones and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities' initiation and management of the de-Stalinization process and explores a wide range of popular reactions to the new narratives of Stalinism in party statements and in Soviet literature and historiography. Engaging with the dynamic field of memory studies, this book represents the first sustained comparison of this process with other countries' attempts to rethink their own difficult pasts, and with later Soviet and post-Soviet approaches to Stalinism.
Author : Gerard Thomas NOEL (Hon.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Sermons intended chiefly for the use of families. (Vol. 2. Sermons, delivered in the Parish Church of Richmond.). written by Gerard Thomas NOEL (Hon.) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : sir Charles Henry Sargant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The rating of ground-rents and ground values written by sir Charles Henry Sargant and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. A. Schneer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The History of Vesuvius from A.D. 79 to A.D. 1907 written by T. A. Schneer and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365839941
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Souvenir Views of Independence, Iowa written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Souvenir Views of Independence, Iowa: Photo-Gravures About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Barbara M. Thiemann
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791338330
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (383 download)
Download or read book (Non)conform written by Barbara M. Thiemann and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It includes hundreds of art works, biographies of the artists, and scholarly assessments of career that both defied and adhered to the Soviet Union's strict policies regarding style and content. Drawn from the internationally renowned Ludwing Collection, the pieces are presented without political prejudice so that they can be appreciated for their artistic value.
