URSS -- Civilisation

The Russia reader: history, culture, politics

by Grant, Bruce, Barker, Adele Marie

fromWorld readers

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An account of the day-to-day scramble to make ends meet after the end of the Soviet Union, letters recording ordinary Russians' reactions to the Revolution as events unfolded in 1917, and excerpts from a sixteenth-century manual instructing elite Muscovites on proper household m…

The Russia reader: history, culture, politics

by Grant, Bruce, Barker, Adele Marie

fromWorld readers

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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…

The Russia reader: history, culture, politics

by Grant, Bruce, Barker, Adele Marie

fromWorld readers

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An interdisciplinary anthology of work from and about Russia, including nonfiction, poetry, journalism, history, and cultural analysis, that includes many primary resources never before published in English.

The Russia reader: history, culture, politics

by Grant, Bruce, Barker, Adele Marie

fromWorld readers

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This introduction to the history, culture and politics of Russia ranges from the earliest written account of the Russian people to today. It conveys everyday life as well as major historical events. It also incorporates song lyrics, jokes, anecdotes, folktales, poems, essays and…

Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore,…

by Project Muse, Stites, Richard, Von Geldern, James

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This anthology offers a rich array of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, comic routines, and folklore to offer a close look at the mass culture that was consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. Both state-sponsored cultural forms an…

Mass culture in Soviet Russia: tales, poems, songs, movies, plays, and folklore,…

0 Type: Book

This anthology offers a rich array of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, comic routines, and folklore to offer a close look at the mass culture that was consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. Both state-sponsored cultural forms an…

Russian popular culture: entertainment and society since 1900

by Stites, Richard

fromCambridge Soviet paperbacks

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This book presents a side of Russian life that is largely unknown to the West - the world of popular culture. By surveying detective and science fiction, popular songs, jokes, box office movie hits, stage, radio and television, Professor Richard Stites introduces the people and …

The Cambridge history of Russia

by Suny, Ronald Grigor

fromCambridge Histories Online

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This third volume provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of the trials and triumphs of Russia and the Soviet Union during the 20th century.

O sistema soviético: relato de uma polêmica

by Haddad, Fernando

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Tentando explicar o fenomeno sovietico o autor procede a uma revisão de concepções que vão do stalinismo ao trotskismo, passando pelas teses do capitalismo de estado, do coletivismo burocratico, da revolução dos gerentes, ate a do socialismo de mercado.