The author claims that not only have Jews adapted better than many other groups to living in the modern world, they have become the premiere symbol and standard of modern life everywhere. The Jews traditionally belonged to a social category known as "service nomads," an outsider…
A stimulating and provocative collection, these essays challenge received notions about the culture and history of medieval Russia and offer fresh approaches to problems of textual interpretation, the theory of the medieval text, and the analysis of alternative, nonverbal texts.…
Explores the transformation taking place in Russia since the 1980s and focuses on its popular culture, sexualities, society, and social artifacts.
The Russia reader: history, culture, politics
by Grant, Bruce, Barker, Adele Marie
fromWorld readers
4e de couv. : Letters recording the reactions of ordinary Russians to the Revolution as events unfolded in 1917, an account of the day-to-day scramble to make a living after the end of the Soviet Union, and excerpts from a sixteenth-century manual instructing elite Muscovites on…
"In this new book, Nicholas Riasanovsky, one of the foremost Russian historians, applies a lifetime of study to answer a question that has puzzled historians, politicians, and nationalists for centuries: what does it mean to be Russian? As he shows, the answer to this question h…
L'ouvrage propose une initiation progressive à l'écriture du russe, puis un panorama simplifié de sa grammaire et de son lexique. Il permet aussi d'étudier la structure de cette langue.
