Russia At The Barricades

Author : Victoria E. Bonnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317460529
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia at the Barricades written by Victoria E. Bonnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the Congress do? How does it do it? Is the Congress up to the challenges ahead? This primer offers students an introduction to Congress and the role it plays in the US political system. It explores the different political natures of the House and Senate, and examines Congress's interaction with other branches of the Federal government.

Author : Victoria E. Bonnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317460510
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia at the Barricades written by Victoria E. Bonnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the Congress do? How does it do it? Is the Congress up to the challenges ahead? This primer offers students an introduction to Congress and the role it plays in the US political system. It explores the different political natures of the House and Senate, and examines Congress's interaction with other branches of the Federal government.

Author : Tobie Mathew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909829121
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greetings from the Barricades written by Tobie Mathew and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the chaos and violence of the 1905 Revolution in Russia, the Tsar's opponents printed and distributed vast quantities of picture postcards. Easy to share, hide and smuggle, postcards were a way to beat the censor and spread a message of defiance. Produced by a diverse set of revolutionaries, liberals and opportunists, the content of these cards is equally wide-ranging: from satirical caricatures directed against the government to rare photographs of revolutionary demonstrations. Many of the cards are darkly humorous, combining laughter with a sense of raw indignation at the injustices of Imperial Russia. Assembled by Tobie Mathew, a writer and historian specializing in Russian graphic art and propaganda, Greetings from the Barricadesis the first major study of the design, production and distribution of these cards, featuring more than 200 images. Together, they form a rich body of political art that illustrates the danger of opposing the regime during this turbulent era.

Author : Scott Ury
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804781044
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barricades and Banners written by Scott Ury and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, Barricades and Banners argues that the metropolitanization of Jewish life led to a need for new forms of community and belonging, and that the ensuing search for collective and individual order gave birth to the new institutions, organizations, and practices that would define modern Jewish society and politics for the remainder of the twentieth century.

Author : Mark Lawrence Schrad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199389470
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vodka Politics written by Mark Lawrence Schrad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself-a history that is drenched in liquor. Scrutinizing (rather than dismissing) the role of alcohol in Russian politics yields a more nuanced understanding of Russian history itself: from palace intrigues under the tsars to the drunken antics of Soviet and post-Soviet leadership, vodka is there in abundance. Beyond vivid anecdotes, Schrad scours original documents and archival evidence to answer provocative historical questions. How have Russia's rulers used alcohol to solidify their autocratic rule? What role did alcohol play in tsarist coups? Was Nicholas II's ill-fated prohibition a catalyst for the Bolshevik Revolution? Could the Soviet Union have become a world power without liquor? How did vodka politics contribute to the collapse of both communism and public health in the 1990s? How can the Kremlin overcome vodka's hurdles to produce greater social well-being, prosperity, and democracy into the future? Viewing Russian history through the bottom of the vodka bottle helps us to understand why the "liquor question" remains important to Russian high politics even today-almost a century after the issue had been put to bed in most every other modern state. Indeed, recognizing and confronting vodka's devastating political legacies may be the greatest political challenge for this generation of Russia's leadership, as well as the next.

Author : Ellen Propper Mickiewicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195101634
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Channels written by Ellen Propper Mickiewicz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on first-hand interviews and extensive field research this study throws light on the role and influence of television in the Russian political arena.

Author : Nancy Condee
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253314024
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Hieroglyphics written by Nancy Condee and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [The Russian and American contributors] share a very high level of expertise and an impressive command of their material, which ranges from film to billboards to currency. Everything in this book, including the introduction, is worth reading... consistently fascinating... -- Choice... a lightning rush of images and ideas that constitute inviting material for future speculation. -- Times Literary SupplementThis collection of essays is a fine, even an exhilarating piece of work. Her brilliant analysis surveys a kaleidoscope of breaks and continuities: betweeen literature and non-print media, high culture and popular culture, homo sovieticus and homo russicus. -- Slavic and East European JournalOf interest for scholars in several disciplines, Soviet Hieroglyphics provides many insights into recent Russian visual culture. -- Canadian Slavonic PaperThese incisive essays describe contemporary Russian culture under conditions of social collapse. Focusing on visual culture, the book highlights the recurrent tension between two opposing tendencies in Russia today: the impulse to eradicate the cultural hieroglyphics of the Soviet past and the compulsion to reinscribe those sacred images onto contemporary texts.

Author : Henry Woodd Nevinson
Publisher : Arno Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dawn in Russia written by Henry Woodd Nevinson and published by Arno Press. This book was released on 1906 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Harsin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 140397005X
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barricades written by J. Harsin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1830 and 1848, Paris was rocked by two successful revolutions, three failed insurrections, and seven serious assassination attempts against King Louis-Phillippe and his sons. The June Days of 1848 - the worst urban insurrection in history until that time - finally brought this period to a close. Using a wide variety of sources, including detailed court records and hundreds of depositions of witnesses and suspects, Jill Harsin examines revolutionary republicanism during the violent underground movement of the July Monarchy, and describes these events in vivid detail. The lives of 'ordinary men' are captured in their own words as Harsin illuminates the political aspirations of the working class. Harsin's original writing style and compelling discussions shed new light on the particular turbulence of this era, a period of disruption that stemmed from the contemporary working class codes of masculinity and honour.

Author : Lyman Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outlook written by Lyman Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: