The Mexican Revolution was spearheaded by an upper- and middle-class revolt against the increasingly stultifying dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, and fueled by popular discontent in the countryside over the disruption caused by the rapid expansion of large-scale commercial agricul…
"Russian populism, the belief that the peasantry embodied authentic Russian identity and once liberated from their poverty would lead the country to a brighter future, has animated Russian thought across the political spectrum and inspired much of Russia's world-historical liter…
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: toward a definition of Russian populism -- Origins -- Foundations -- Populism in theory -- Populism in action -- Populist art -- Regrets and revisions -- Neo-populism -- Conclusion -- Selected further reading -- Bibliography -- I…
"Russian populism, the belief that the peasantry embodied authentic Russian identity and once liberated from their poverty would lead the country to a brighter future, has animated Russian thought across the political spectrum and inspired much of Russia's world-historical liter…
"Russian populism, the belief that the peasantry embodied authentic Russian identity and once liberated from their poverty would lead the country to a brighter future, has animated Russian thought across the political spectrum and inspired much of Russia's world-historical liter…
A la fin du Moyen Âge, l'Europe voit s'abattre sur elle des désastres économiques et démographiques d'une ampleur considérable. Quelles en sont les causes? Quelle en est la signification ? On fait généralement porter la responsabilité de cette situation aux guerres, aux épidémie…
"Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an obscure village with one week's ration of canned meat and orders to guard a downed plane. Apparently forgotten by his unit, Chonkin r…
