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  • - An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei Uvarov, 1786-1855
    av Cynthia H. Whittaker
    349 - 432,-

  • - Carnival, Stylization, and Mockery of the West
    av David W. Gasperetti
    524,-

    Overturning the view of early Russian prose fiction as a pale imitation of European models, this discussion locates the origins of the Russian novel in 18th century indigenous writing. Tracing the novel's development, it analyzes the prose of Fedor Emin, Mikhail Chulkov and Matvei Komarov.

  • - Religion and Community in Peasant Russia, 1861-1917
    av Chris Chulos
    599,-

    This work describes the interplay between peasant religious life and the broader social and cultural transformation of late tsarist Russia. Chulos challenges existing conceptions of religion in Russia and sheds light on the development of modern national identity.

  • - Orthodox Pastorship and Social Activism in Revolutionary Russia
    av Jennifer Hedda
    504 - 1 435,-

    Analyzes the ideas and activities of the parish clergy serving in St Petersburg, the capital of imperial Russia, in order to discover how the Russian Orthodox Church responded theologically and pastorally to the profound social, economic, and cultural changes that transformed Russia during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

  • - Uniate and Orthodox Conflict in Eighteenth-century Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia
    av Barbara Skinner
    527,-

    Drawing on archival sources from Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, this work addresses the shifting identity and fate of Ruthenians on both sides of the Orthodox/Uniate divide during the politically charged era of the partitions of Poland. It is suitable for those studying the tensions between Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.

  • - Shaping Sacred Space in the Russian Empire and Beyond
    av Mara Kozelsky
    523,-

    An English language work to analyze the Christian renewal in Crimea. Drawing on archives in Odessa, Simferopol, and St Petersburg, it provides both a case study of past and present religious nationalism in Eastern Europe and an examination of the political conflicts and compromises endemic to holy places.

  • - Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature
    av Ingrid Anne Kleespies
    599,-

    The metaphor of the nomad may at first seem surprising for Russia given its history of serfdom, travel restrictions, and strict social hierarchy. This book traces the image of the nomad and its relationship to Russian national identity through the debates and discussion of works by writers like Karamzin, Pushkin, Goncharov, and Dostoevsky.

  • - Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia
    av Laurie Manchester
    527,-

  • - The Cult of St. Catherine and the Dawn of Female Rule in Russia
    av Gary Marker
    602 - 1 435,-

  • av Roy Robson
    263,-

    The schism that split the Russian Orthodox Church in 1667 alienated thousands of devout men and women - the Old Believers - who practiced their faith as outsiders for more than two centuries. This book explores how the Old Believers adapted to rapid change in the early 20th century and reveals the many facets of Old Believer life.

  • av Sergey Gandlevsky
    349,-

    The author is widely recognized as one of the leading living Russian poets and prose writers. In this title, his story radiates out, relaying the poet's personal history through 1994, including his unique perspective on the 1991 coup by Communist hardliners resisted by Boris Yeltsin.

  • - Stories and Essays
    av Valentin Rasputin
    287,-

  • - A Muscovite in Early Modern Europe
    av Peter Tolstoi
    576,-

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    589,-

    Focusing on the lived experience of individuals in Russia and Ukraine, these essays explore continuity and change comparatively and in the context of larger interpretative issues, such as popular culture, mentality, and religious belief.

  • - The Man Whose Ideas Delivered Russia from Communism
    av Richard Pipes
    1 693,-

    A significant political figure in twentieth-century Russia, Alexander Yakovlev was the intellectual force behind the processes of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) that liberated the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from Communist rule between 1989 and 1991. Yet, until now, not a single full-scale biography has been devoted to...

  • av Theodore R. Weeks
    420,-

    The inhabitants of Vilnius, the present-day capital of Lithuania, have spoken various languages and professed different religions while living together in relative harmony over the years. The city has played a significant role in the history and development of at least three separate cultures-Polish, Lithuanian, and Jewish-and until very...

  • av Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
    271,-

    How did enlightened Russians of the eighteenth century understand society? And how did they reconcile their professed ideals of equality and justice with the authoritarian political structures in which they lived? Historian Elise Wirtschafter turns to literary plays to reconstruct the social thinking of the past and to discover how...

  • - A True Story in 21 Kilometers
    av Jasmina Kozina Praprotnik
    337,-

    Anthropologist Jasmina Praprotnik met Helena Zigon while running. Over the course of an icy Slovenian winter, the two marathon runners got together frequently, and Zigon told Praprotnik about her life. Here, Praprotnik tells Zigon's captivating story in Zigon's own voice. Each chapter is marked by a kilometer of the half-marathon Zigon ran...

  • - An Uncommon Journey of a Journalist
    av Milan Kubic
    417,-

    After spending his childhood in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and witnessing the Communist takeover of his country in 1948, a young journalist named Milan Kubic embarked on a career as a Newsweek correspondent that spanned thirty-one years and three continents, reporting on some of the most memorable events in the Middle East. Now, Kubic tells...

  • - Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin
    av Rebecca Reich
    435 - 1 435,-

    State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death.

  • - Stories by Yenta Mash
    av Yenta Mash
    179,-

    A Yiddish Book Center Translation In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash traces an arc across continents, across upheavals and regime changes, and across the phases of a woman's life. Mash's protagonists are often in transit, poised "on the landing" on their way to or from somewhere...

  • - The "Jewish Question" in Poland, 1850-1914
    av Theodore R. Weeks
    558,-

    The large number of Jews living in Polish lands had lived as a separate estate from the Poles until the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on many long-term factors and one major event - the Revolution of 1905 - this book traces Poland's failed attempts to integrate its Jewish communities into the country's social fabric.

  • - Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny
    av Valeria Sobol
    349 - 1 435,-

  • - The Political Culture of Early Modern Russia
    av Daniel B. Rowland
    351 - 1 435,-

  • av Marek Hlasko
    247 - 397,-

    Offers a firsthand account of the life of Marek Hlasko, a young writer whose iconoclastic way of life became an inspiration in 1950s Poland. Detailing relationships with such giants of Polish culture as the filmmaker Roman Polanski and the novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski, this memoir recounts his adventures and misadventures abroad in the postwar era.

  • - Memoirs of the Underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia
     
    1 435,-

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