Books

Global Russian cultures

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Vladimir Putin has tried to rationalize the 2014 annexation of Crimea as a defense of the "millions of Russian and russophone people" who live there ... an irredentist logic that rests on an understanding of a unified, fixed, primordial "Russian-ness." Challenging this notion of…

Global Russian cultures

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Vladimir Putin has tried to rationalize the 2014 annexation of Crimea as a defense of the "millions of Russian and russophone people" who live there--an irredentist logic that rests on an understanding of a unified, fixed, primordial "Russian-ness." Challenging this notion of an…

Lenin's private war: the voyage of the philosophy steamer and the exil…

by Chamberlain, Lesley

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In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. 'We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all' he wrote to Stalin, whose job it was to over…

La Russie et les Russes dans la fiction française du XIXe siècle (1812-1917): d'une image de l'autre à un univers imaginaire

by Krauss, Charlotte

fromInternationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichend…

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A travers tout le XIXe siècle, l'empire des tsars et ses habitants ont largement inspiré la production littéraire en France. Mais si des recherches se sont intéressées aux récits de voyages, aux journaux et aux correspondances, la Russie en tant qu'objet de la fiction est généra…

Russia: people and empire, 1552-1917

by Hosking, Geoffrey A.

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Discusses the sixteenth century roots of the lack of a unified Russian identity, the division between the gentry and the peasantry, and the widening gap in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which led to revolution and continues to affect Russia today.

Slavophile empire: imperial Russia's illiberal path

by Engelstein, Laura

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Combined underdevelopment : discipline and the law in Imperial and Soviet Russia -- Revolution and the theater of public life : the triumph of extremes -- The dream of civil society : the law, the state, and religious toleration -- Holy Russia in modern times : the Slavophile qu…

Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan: under the falling Red Star in Kharkiv

by Westrate, Michael T.

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"This book examines the experience of citizens living in the U.S.S.R., focusing on a group of military colonels and their families in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Drawing from oral accounts, it describes their shifting social, cultural, and political realities and explores how ideological,…

Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan: under the falling Red Star in Kharkiv

by Westrate, Michael T.

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"This book examines the experience of citizens living in the U.S.S.R., focusing on a group of military colonels and their families in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Drawing from oral accounts, it describes their shifting social, cultural, and political realities and explores how ideological,…

Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan: under the falling Red Star in Kharkiv

by Westrate, Michael T.

0 Type: Book

"This book examines the experience of citizens living in the U.S.S.R., focusing on a group of military colonels and their families in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Drawing from oral accounts, it describes their shifting social, cultural, and political realities and explores how ideological,…