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  • av Iwona Kaliszewska
    315 - 1 372,-

  • - Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900-1929
    av Laura L. Phillips
    476,-

    This study of drinking provides insights into changes and continuities in everyday life among St Petersburg's revolutionary workers. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it offers insight into issues of revolutionary change, class and gender probing the resiliency of alcohol-centred culture.

  • - Russia's Enlightened Bureaucrats, 1825-1861
    av W. Bruce Lincoln
    189,-

    The first decade of Alexander II's reign is known in Russian history as the Era of the Great Reforms, a time recognized as the major period of social, economic, and institutional transformation between the reign of Peter the Great and the Revolution of 1905. Coming directly after the notoriously repressive last decade of the Nicholas era, the appearance of such dramatic reform has led scholars to seek its causes in dramatic events. Surely some great, even cataclysmic, force must have driven Alexander II and his advisers to initiate what appears to be such an astonishing change in policy. In their search for the origins of these Great Reforms, historians generally have focused upon two phenomena. The first of these was Russia's defeat in the Crimean War by a relatively small, ineptly commanded Allied expeditionary force. The second was the serf revolts, which increased dramatically in the 1850s. From these events, most historians have concluded that the economic failings of serfdom, the problem of preserving domestic peace, and the need to restore Russia's tarnished military prestige were the major forces that convinced Alexander II's government to embark upon a new reformist path. As Lincoln's examination of the long-unstudied Russian archival evidence shows, there are good reasons to question whether such crises of policy and failings of Russia's servile economy impelled Alexander II and his advisers along a previously uncharted reformist path after the Crimean War. Further, in light of the Russian bureaucracy's slowness in drafting much less complex administrative reforms during the previous century, Lincoln argues that the Great Reform legislation simply was too complex and required too much sophisticated knowledge about the Empire's economic, administratvive, and judicial affairs to have been formulated in the brief half-decade after the war's end.

  • av Vera Figner
    230,-

    A courageous woman recounts her journey from aristocrat to revolutionary in nineteenth-century Russia.

  • - Autocracy, Bureaucracy, and the Politics of Change in Imperial Russia
    av W. Bruce Lincoln
    375,-

  • - A Social and Cultural Portrait of Two Generations, 1840-1905
    av Jo Ann Ruckman
    411,-

  • - American Technology and the Small Arms Industry in Nineteenth-Century Russia
    av Joseph Bradley
    450,-

  • - Food and Nationhood under the Tsars
    av Alison K. Smith
    486,-

    Examines attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs about the production and consumption of food in Russia from the late 18th century through the mid 19th century. This book looks at the way individuals sought to define their nationality not only against outside influences, but also by incorporating those outside influences into a national whole.

  • - Freemasonry and Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia
    av Douglas Smith
    507,-

    Examines the forces that attracted many social and intellectual leaders of 18th-century Russia to Freemasonry as an instrument for change and progress. The author reveals how Freemasonry became a part of a larger social transformation that saw the development of literary circles and social clubs.

  • - Writing Culture and Identity in Imperial Russia
    av Katia Dianina
    773,-

    From the time the word kul-tura entered the Russian language in the early nineteenth century, Russian arts and letters have thrived on controversy. This book examines the development of a public discourse on national self-representation in nineteenth-century Russia, as it was styled by the visual arts and in popular journalism.

  • - Russian Diplomacy and War in the Balkans, 1914-1917
    av G. N. Trubetskoi
    611,-

    A prince in one of Russia's most exalted noble families, Grigorii N. Trubetskoi was a unique and contradictory figure during World War I. A lifelong civil servant and publicist, he began his diplomatic career in Constantinople, where he served as first secretary of the embassy there for several years. He became one of the leaders of an...

  • - Community, Place, Identity
    av Edith W. Clowes & Shelly Jarrett Bromberg
    317,-

    This interdisciplinary volume is a new introduction to area studies in the framework of whole-world thinking. Emerging in the United States after World War II, area studies have proven indispensable to American integration in the world. They serve two main purposes: to equip future experts with rich cultural-historical and political-economic...

  • - Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800-1917
    av Anne Lounsbery
    425 - 1 413,-

    In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"-a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser-known, in order to explain why the trope has...

  • - Culture, Practice, and Science
     
    669,-

  • - Village and State in Late Imperial Russia
    av Corinne Gaudin
    489,-

    Who ruled the countryside in late Imperial Russia? On the rare occasions that tsarist administrators dared pose the question so boldly, their discouraged answer was that peasants ruled. This title challenges this dominant paradigm of the closed village by investigating the ways peasants engaged tsarist laws and the local institutions.

  • - The Association of Southern Coal and Steel Producers, 1874-1914
    av Susan McCaffray
    611,-

  • av Seymour Becker
    273,-

    The transformation of the Russian nobility between 1861 and 1914 has often been attributed to the anachronistic attitudes of its members and their failure to adapt to social change. Becker challenges this idea of "the decline of the nobility." He argues that the privileged estate responded positively to change and greatly influenced their nation's political and economic destiny.

  • - Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1906-1917
    av Jonathan Daly
    507,-

    Why did the imperial Russian government fail to prevent revolution in 1917? Were its security policies flawed? This broadly researched study of Russia's security police investigates the government's efforts to maintain order against political opposition and threats of violence during the decade before the Revolution.

  • - Essays in the New Spatial History
     
    473,-

  • - Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin
    av Alison K. Smith
    369,-

    Lovers, companions, and husband and wife, Catherine and Prince Grigory Potemkin were also close political partners. This work reveals the complexity of Catherine and Potemkin's personal relationship in light of changes in matters of state, foreign relations, and military engagements. It gives insights into Catherine's passions, and her world.

  • - Women Against the Tsar
     
    269,-

    Violent movements opposing existing political orders erupted throughout nineteenth-century Europe, but nowhere was this revolutionary impulse made more dramatically visible than in Russia. This title presents English translations of the memoirs of five Russia's female revolutionaries.

  • - Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia
    av Christopher Ely
    317 - 546,-

    This work traces the construction of Russia's cultural landscape, showing how 19th-century representations of nature reflected and shaped Russians' ideas about themselves and their nation. It should appeal to those who are interested in landscape history and in Russian art and culture.

  • - Parties and Patronage in Russia's Regions
    av Bryon Moraski
    411,-

    Based on statistical analyses and case studies, this book seeks to uncover how electoral rules are decided within the Russian Federation, and by whom. Aiming to enhance our understanding of electoral system choice, it investigates the origins of the legislative electoral systems in the different regions of the Russian Federation.

  • - Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses
    av Frances Lee Bernstein
    507 - 1 759,-

    Explores the attempts to define and control sexual behavior in the years following the Russian Revolution. This book examines Soviet "sexual enlightenment," a program of popular health and lifestyle advice intended to establish a model of sexual conduct for the men and women who would build socialism.

  • - Female Crime and Criminology in Revolutionary Russia, 1880-1930
    av Sharon Kowalsky
    629,-

    Examines the position of women in early Soviet society through the lens of deviance, exploring how Soviet criminologists understood female crime and how their attitudes helped shape the development of Soviet social and behavioral norms. This title looks at the emergence of criminology in early Soviet Russia.

  • - The Urban Housing Program from Stalin to Khrushchev
    av Mark B. Smith
    500,-

    A study of one of the major social reforms of 20th-century European history that presents an analysis built on hundreds of sources that include papers from state and municipal archives, material from the popular and professional press, legal tracts, films, novels, and personal accounts.

  • av Wayne Dowler
    257 - 408,-

  • - Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia
    av Russell E. Martin
    585,-

    From 1505 to 1689, Russia's Tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. Alongside accounts of sordid boyar plots against brides and the multiple marriages of Ivan the Terrible, this book offers an analysis of the show's role in the complex politics of royal marriage in early modern Russia.

  • av Julia Mannherz
    588,-

    A title that examines the ferocious public debates of the 1870s on higher dimensional mathematics and the workings of seance phenomena, discusses the world of cheap instruction manuals and popular occult journals, and looks at haunted houses, which brought together the rural settings and the urban masses that obsessed over them.

  • - The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
    av Marie-Pierre Rey
    317 - 460,-

    Alexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his father. This biography focuses on the complex forces that shaped Alexander's tumultuous reign.

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