Soviet Russia, the Land and Its People
Author | : Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Mikhaĭlov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Mikhaĭlov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Douglas Rogers |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2010-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0801457955 |
The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Believers, as these dissenters later came to be known, have maintained a presence in the town ever since. The townspeople of Sepych have also been serfs, free peasants, collective farmers, and, now, shareholders in a post-Soviet cooperative. Douglas Rogers traces connections between the town and some of the major transformations of Russian history, showing how townspeople have responded to a long series of attempts to change them and their communities: tsarist-era efforts to regulate family life and stamp out Old Belief on the Stroganov estates, Soviet collectivization drives and antireligious campaigns, and the marketization, religious revival, and ongoing political transformations of post-Soviet times. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival and manuscript sources, Rogers argues that religious, political, and economic practice are overlapping arenas in which the people of Sepych have striven to be ethical—in relation to labor and money, food and drink, prayers and rituals, religious books and manuscripts, and the surrounding material landscape. He tracks the ways in which ethical sensibilities—about work and prayer, hierarchy and inequality, gender and generation—have shifted and recombined over time. Rogers concludes that certain expectations about how to be an ethical person have continued to orient townspeople in Sepych over the course of nearly three centuries for specific, identifiable, and often unexpected reasons. Throughout, he demonstrates what a historical and ethnographic study of ethics might look like and uses this approach to ask new questions of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet history.
Author | : Edith Caroline Phillips |
Publisher | : London ; Paris : Cassell |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Russia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alexander Nazaroff |
Publisher | : J.P. Lippincott |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1972-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780397315147 |
An introduction to the history, geography, people, political and economic development, and way of life of the vast and diverse country known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Author | : Greg Nickles |
Publisher | : Crabtree Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780778793021 |
Illustrated photographs describe the land, people, culture, and economy of Russia.
Author | : Mikhail S. Blinnikov |
Publisher | : Guilford Publications |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2021-02-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1462544614 |
Authoritative yet accessible, the definitive undergraduate text on Russian geography and culture has now been thoroughly revised with current data and timely topics, such as the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol and other background for understanding Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Thematic chapters provide up-to-date coverage of Russia's physical, political, cultural, and economic geography. Regional chapters focus on the country's major regions and the other 14 former Soviet republics. Written in a lucid, conversational style by a Russian-born international expert, the concise chapters interweave vivid descriptions of urban and rural landscapes, examinations of Soviet and post-Soviet life, deep knowledge of environmental and conservation issues, geopolitical insights, engaging anecdotes, and rigorous empirical data. Over 200 original maps, photographs, and other figures are also available as PowerPoint slides at the companion website, many in color. New to This Edition *Separate chapter on Ukraine and Crimea, covering events through 2019. *Timely topics--the political crisis in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol; the return of Putin as president; climate change and environmental degradation; economic slowdown; political shifts in the republics; the role of Russian-backed forces in Syria, Libya, and Central African Republic; changes in Russia–United States relations; and more. *Thoroughly updated population, economic, and political data. *80 new or updated figures, tables, and maps. Pedagogical Features *End-of-chapter review questions, suggested assignments, and in-class exercises. *Within-chapter vignettes about Russian places, culture, and history. *End-of-chapter Internet resources and suggestions for further reading. *Companion website with all figures and maps from the book, many in full color.
Author | : Judith Pallot |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1999-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191542563 |
Since the collapse of the USSR there has been a growing interest in the Stolypin Land Reform as a possible model for post-Communist agrarian development. Using recent theoretical and empirical advances in Anglo-American research, Dr Pallot examines how peasants throughout Russia received, interpreted, and acted upon the government's attempts to persuade them to quit the commune and set up independent farms. She shows how a majority of peasants failed to interpret the Reform in the way its authors had expected, with outcomes that varied both temporally and geographically. The result challenges existing texts which either concentrate on the policy side of the Reform or, if they engage with its results, use aggregated, official statistics which, this text argues, are unreliable indicators of the pre-revolutionary peasants reception of the Reform.
Author | : CAITLIN. FINLAYSON |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Meier |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393051780 |
With the power of "Lenin's Tomb" and "Balkan Ghosts, " this is an illuminating portrait of contemporary Russia--a country in limbo, a land of vast potential struggling with an unfinished past. "Black Earth" is a penetrating view of the new Russia from a bold new voice in political journalism. 7 maps.
Author | : Ekaterina Pravilova |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2018-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691180717 |
"Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a failure to advance property rights for the modern age and blamed Russian intellectuals for their indifference to the issues of ownership. A Public Empire refutes this widely shared conventional wisdom and analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917. Most importantly, A Public Empire shows the emergence of the new practices of owning "public things" in imperial Russia and the attempts of Russian intellectuals to reconcile the security of property with the ideals of the common good. The book analyzes how the belief that certain objects—rivers, forests, minerals, historical monuments, icons, and Russian literary classics—should accede to some kind of public status developed in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. Professional experts and liberal politicians advocated for a property reform that aimed at exempting public things from private ownership, while the tsars and the imperial government employed the rhetoric of protecting the sanctity of private property and resisted attempts at its limitation. Exploring the Russian ways of thinking about property, A Public Empire looks at problems of state reform and the formation of civil society, which, as the book argues, should be rethought as a process of constructing "the public" through the reform of property rights.