Russian Countess, the 2nd Ed
Author | : Edith Sollohub |
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Release | : 2017-08 |
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ISBN | : 9781911293064 |
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Author | : Edith Sollohub |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-08 |
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ISBN | : 9781911293064 |
Author | : Edith Sollohub |
Publisher | : Impress Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781911293071 |
Separated from her three young sons, stripped of possessions and fearing for her life, Countess Edith Sollohub was trapped in revolutionary Russia. This is her account of her escape, assuming new identities as a Polish refugee, a travelling musician and a Red Army nurse; enduring hunger, imprisonment and loneliness to be reunited with her family.
Author | : James R. Gibson |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2024-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0228020018 |
In the wake of Vladimir Lenin’s death in 1924, various protagonists grappled to become his successor, but it was not until 1928 that Joseph Stalin emerged as leader of the Russian Marxists’ Bolshevik wing. Surrounded by an increasingly hostile capitalist world, Stalin reasoned that Soviet Russia had to industrialize in order to survive and prosper. But domestic capital was scarce, so the country’s minerals, timber, and grain were sold abroad for hard currency for funding the development of heavy industry. Claiming total control of agricultural management and production, Stalin implemented the collectivization of farming, consolidating small peasant holdings into large collective farms and controlling their output. The program was economically successful, but it came at a high social cost as the state encountered intense resistance, and between 1928 and 1934 collectivization led to the deaths of at least ten million people from starvation and associated diseases. Hungry and Starving elicits the voices of both the culprits and the victims at the centre of this horrific process. Through primary accounts of collectivization as well as the eyewitness observations of ambassadors, reporters, tourists, fellow travellers, Russian emigrés, tsarist officials, aristocrats, scientists, and technical specialists, James Gibson engages the crucial notions and actors in the academic discourse of the period. He finds that the famine lasted longer than is commonly supposed, that it took place on a national rather than a regional scale, and that while the famine was entirely man-made – the result of the ruthless manner in which collectivization was executed and enforced – it was neither deliberate nor ethnically motivated, given that it was not in the Soviet state’s economic or political interest to engage in genocide. Highlighting the experiences of life and death under Stalin’s ruthless regime, Hungry and Starving offers a broader understanding of the Great Soviet Famine.
Author | : Marcia Layton Turner |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2009-03-03 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1101012331 |
From Atticus to Zuzu With 10,000 additional names and 50 additional lists (200 total), this latest edition is the most comprehensive guide to naming newborns on the market, and the most fun! With specialized lists, from world leaders to favorite characters from children's literature, biblical figures to Wiccan/ Gothic/Vampire names, Olympic medalists to Nobel Prize winners, plus alphabetized lists for each gender, this guide makes the name game easy, pleasurable, and enlightening. - Approximately 4 million babies born every year in the U.S, and they all need names! - Contains 40,000 names, 10,000 more than The Everything Baby Names Book and 35,000 more than Baby Names for Dummies - Includes 200 specialized lists - even the names that have the best and worst nicknames - which add to the fun of selecting the perfect name
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Total Pages | : 1218 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Author | : Sampson Low |
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Total Pages | : 1450 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : English imprints |
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Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Author | : Sampson Low |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
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Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1841 |
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Author | : Perth (W.A.). Public Library |
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Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 1905 |
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Author | : Nikolai Findeizen |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 910 |
Release | : 2008-02-07 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0253023521 |
In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history. Volume 2 of Findeizen's landmark study surveys music in court life during the reigns of Elizabeth I and Catherine II, music in Russian domestic and public life in the second half of the 18th century, and the variety and vitality of Russian music at the end of the 18th century.