Tsar of Freedom
Author | : Stephen Graham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Stephen Graham |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Stephen Graham |
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Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Timothy Snyder |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2019-04-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0525574476 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. “A brilliant analysis of our time.”—Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Vladimir Putin found fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. In the 2010s, it has spread from east to west, aided by Russian warfare in Ukraine and cyberwar in Europe and the United States. Russia found allies among nationalists, oligarchs, and radicals everywhere, and its drive to dissolve Western institutions, states, and values found resonance within the West itself. The rise of populism, the British vote against the EU, and the election of Donald Trump were all Russian goals, but their achievement reveals the vulnerability of Western societies. In this forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, based on vast research as well as personal reporting, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true nature of the threat to democracy and law. To understand the challenge is to see, and perhaps renew, the fundamental political virtues offered by tradition and demanded by the future. By revealing the stark choices before us--between equality or oligarchy, individuality or totality, truth and falsehood--Snyder restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty.
Author | : Edvard Radzinsky |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2006-11-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0743284267 |
Profiles the Romanov Dynasty tsar as one of Russia's most forward-thinking rulers, documenting his efforts to redefine history by bringing freedom to his country, and describing the series of assassination attempts that eventually ended his life.
Author | : Stephan Alan Graham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Stephen Graham |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Paul W. Werth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199591776 |
Explores the scope and character of religious freedom for Russia's diverse non-Orthodox religions during the tzarist regime.
Author | : Andrew Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Diplomatic and consular service, British |
ISBN | : 9781445855073 |
From glittering ballrooms To The cruel cells of the House of Preliminary Detention, from the British Embassy To The undergroundpresses of the revolutionaries, 'To Kill a Tsar' is a gripping thriller set in a world of brutal contrasts.
Author | : Charles King |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2008-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195177754 |
" ... The first general history of the modern Caucasus, stretching from the beginning of Russian imperial expansion up to rise of new countries after the Soviet Union's collapse."--Cover.
Author | : Paul W. Werth |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191667625 |
The Russian Empire presented itself to its subjects and the world as an Orthodox state, a patron and defender of Eastern Christianity. Yet the tsarist regime also lauded itself for granting religious freedoms to its many heterodox subjects, making 'religious toleration' a core attribute of the state's identity. The Tsar's Foreign Faiths shows that the resulting tensions between the autocracy's commitments to Orthodoxy and its claims to toleration became a defining feature of the empire's religious order. In this panoramic account, Paul W. Werth explores the scope and character of religious freedom for Russia's diverse non-Orthodox religions, from Lutheranism and Catholicism to Islam and Buddhism. Considering both rhetoric and practice, he examines discourses of religious toleration and the role of confessional institutions in the empire's governance. He reveals the paradoxical status of Russia's heterodox faiths as both established and 'foreign', and explains the dynamics that shaped the fate of newer conceptions of religious liberty after the mid-nineteenth century. If intellectual change and the shifting character of religious life in Russia gradually pushed the regime towards the acceptance of freedom of conscience, then statesmen's nationalist sentiments and their fears of 'politicized' religion impeded this development. Russia's religious order thus remained beset by contradiction on the eve of the Great War. Based on archival research in five countries and a vast scholarly literature, The Tsar's Foreign Faiths represents a major contribution to the history of empire and religion in Russia, and to the study of toleration and religious diversity in Europe.