The Russia Reader

The Russia Reader
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 793
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ISBN-10 : 9780822346487
ISBN-13 : 0822346486
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Russia Reader by : Adele Marie Barker

Download or read book The Russia Reader written by Adele Marie Barker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the history, culture, and politics of the worlds largest country, from the earliest written accounts of the Russian people to today.

The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader

The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 673
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ISBN-10 : 9780140151039
ISBN-13 : 0140151036
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader by : Various

Download or read book The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych; and "The Grand Inquisitor" episode from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; plus poetry, plays, short stories, novel excerpts, and essays by such writers as Griboyedov, Pavlova, Herzen, Goncharov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Maksim Gorky. Distinguished scholar George Gibian provides an introduction, chronology, biographical essays, and a bibliography.

Politics In Russia: A Reader

Politics In Russia: A Reader
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Publisher : CQ Press
Total Pages : 513
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ISBN-10 : 9781608716500
ISBN-13 : 1608716503
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Politics In Russia: A Reader by : Joel M. Ostrow

Download or read book Politics In Russia: A Reader written by Joel M. Ostrow and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reader composed of landmark selections, guided by the insight that to understand contemporary Russia, students need to know that there are strongly competing interpretations of Russian politics, both past and present.

Religion and Politics in Russia: A Reader

Religion and Politics in Russia: A Reader
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781317461128
ISBN-13 : 1317461126
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Religion and Politics in Russia: A Reader by : Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

Download or read book Religion and Politics in Russia: A Reader written by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia is not only vast, it is also culturally diverse, the core of an empire that spanned Eurasia. In addition to the majority Russian Orthodox and various other Christian groups, the Russian Federation includes large communities of Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and members of other religious groups, some with ancient historical roots. All are in a state of ferment, and securing formal state recognition for specific communities is often daunting. This collection provides entry into the diversity of Russia's religious communities. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer's introduction to the volume illuminates major political, social, and cultural-anthropological trends. The book is organized by religious tradition or identity, with further thematic perspectives on each set of readings. The authors include ethnologists, sociologists, political analysts, and religious leaders from many regions of the Federation. They analyze the changing dynamics of religion and politics within each community and in the context of the current drive to recentralize both political and religious authority in Moscow. Topical coverage extends from reassertions of Russian Orthodoxy to activities of Christian and Muslim missionaries to the revival of many other religions, including indigenous shamanic ones.

Russia

Russia
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : 9781509527700
ISBN-13 : 1509527702
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Russia by : Dmitri Trenin

Download or read book Russia written by Dmitri Trenin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past century alone, Russia has lived through great achievements and deepest misery; mass heroism and mass crime; over-blown ambition and near-hopeless despair – always emerging with its sovereignty and its fiercely independent spirit intact. In this book, leading Russia scholar Dmitri Trenin accompanies readers on Russia’s rollercoaster journey from revolution to post-war devastation, perestroika to Putin’s stabilization of post-Communist Russia. Explaining the causes and the meaning of the numerous twists and turns in contemporary Russian history, he offers a vivid insider’s view of a country through one of its most trying and often tragic periods. Today, he cautions, Russia stands at a turning point – politically, economically and socially – its situation strikingly reminiscent of the Russian Empire in its final years. For the Russian Federation to avoid a similar demise, it must learn the lessons of its own history.

Russia and the Russians

Russia and the Russians
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 776
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ISBN-10 : 0674004736
ISBN-13 : 9780674004733
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Russia and the Russians by : Geoffrey A. Hosking

Download or read book Russia and the Russians written by Geoffrey A. Hosking and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the Russian Empire from the Mongol Invasion, through the Bolshevik Revolution, to the aftereffects of the Cold War.

Russia ABCs

Russia ABCs
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Publisher : Capstone
Total Pages : 33
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ISBN-10 : 9781404802841
ISBN-13 : 1404802843
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Russia ABCs by : Ann Berge

Download or read book Russia ABCs written by Ann Berge and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2004 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privyet! Welcome to Russia! Come along on this ABC adventure through the biggest country on Earth. Read about diamond-studded eggs, the deepest lake in the world, and other fascinating facts.