Red Russia Revealed
Author | : Samuel Spewack |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Samuel Spewack |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Julia L. Mickenberg |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2017-04-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022625612X |
If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia L. Mickenberg uncovers in American Girls in Red Russia, there is a forgotten counterpoint to the story of the Lost Generation: beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russian revolutionary ideology attracted many women, including suffragists, reformers, educators, journalists, and artists, as well as curious travelers. Some were famous, like Isadora Duncan or Lillian Hellman; some were committed radicals, though more were just intrigued by the “Soviet experiment.” But all came to Russia in search of social arrangements that would be more equitable, just, and satisfying. And most in the end were disillusioned, some by the mundane realities, others by horrifying truths. Mickenberg reveals the complex motives that drew American women to Russia as they sought models for a revolutionary new era in which women would be not merely independent of men, but also equal builders of a new society. Soviet women, after all, earned the right to vote in 1917, and they also had abortion rights, property rights, the right to divorce, maternity benefits, and state-supported childcare. Even women from Soviet national minorities—many recently unveiled—became public figures, as African American and Jewish women noted. Yet as Mickenberg’s collective biography shows, Russia turned out to be as much a grim commune as a utopia of freedom, replete with economic, social, and sexual inequities. American Girls in Red Russia recounts the experiences of women who saved starving children from the Russian famine, worked on rural communes in Siberia, wrote for Moscow or New York newspapers, or performed on Soviet stages. Mickenberg finally tells these forgotten stories, full of hope and grave disappointments.
Author | : Louise Bryant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Louise Bryant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-06-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781304879707 |
Six Red Months in Russia contains Louise Bryant's remarkable first hand account of the earth-shaking October Revolution and its aftermath. The Chicago Tribune called it "an impressive book." The New York Times said it has "inherent interest as a document." This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Russian Revolution. Louise Bryant was an American feminist, political activist, and journalist. She was the wife of journalist John Reed and prolific writer. Bryant died in Paris in 1936.
Author | : Brendan McGeever |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2019-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107195993 |
The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.
Author | : John Davies |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022638960X |
The “utterly fascinating” untold story of Soviet Russia’s global military mapping program—featuring many of the surprising maps that resulted (Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian). From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full range of military planning. For big cities like New York, Washington, D.C., and London to towns like Pontiac, MI, and Galveston, TX, the Soviets gathered enough information to create street-level maps. The information on these maps ranged from the locations of factories and ports to building heights, road widths, and bridge capacities. Some of the detail suggests early satellite technology, while other specifics, like detailed depictions of depths and channels around rivers and harbors, could only have been gained by Soviet spies on the ground. The Red Atlas includes over 350 extracts from these incredible Cold War maps, exploring their provenance and cartographic techniques as well as what they can tell us about their makers and the Soviet initiatives that were going on all around us.
Author | : Orlando Figes |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2008-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312428037 |
History.
Author | : Giles Milton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2015-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620405709 |
Recounts the extraordinary and thrilling story of the British spies in revolutionary Russia, led by Mansfield Cumming, who would one day pioneer the field of covert action and become MI6, and their mission to foil Lenin's plot for global revolution. 40,000 first printing.
Author | : Elizabeth McGuire |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190640553 |
Presents a multigenerational history of the people who experienced Sino-Soviet affairs most intimately: prominent Chinese revolutionaries who traveled to Russia in their youths to study, often falling in love and having children there. Their personal memoirs, interviews with their children, and a collection of documents from the Russian archives allow McGuire to reconstruct the sexually-charged, physically difficult, and politically dangerous lives of Chinese communists in the Soviet Union. She brings to life a cast of transnational characters--including a son of Chiang Kai-shek and a wife of Mao Zedong--who connected the two great communist revolutions in human terms. Weaving personal stories and cultural interactions into political history, McGuire shows that the Sino-Soviet relationship was not a brotherhood or a friendship, but rather played out in phases like many lifelong love affairs - from first love, early betrayal, and love children; through eventual marriage with its conveniences and annoyances, guarded optimism, and official heirs; to divorce, reconciliation, and a nostalgia that lingers even today. --From publisher description.
Author | : Peter Holquist |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2002-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674009073 |
Reinterpreting the emergence of the Soviet state, Holquist situates the Bolshevik Revolution within the continuum of mobilization and violence that began with World War I and extended through Russia's civil war, thereby providing a genealogy for Bolshevik political practices that places them clearly among Russian and European wartime measures.