The Former Soviet Unions Diverse Peoples

Author : James B. Minahan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576078248
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Former Soviet Union's Diverse Peoples written by James B. Minahan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-07-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide to understanding the history of the ethnic diversity of the former Soviet Union and the current ethnic issues of the region. The Former Soviet Union's Diverse Peoples provides an overview of the peoples and events in the historical development of the Russian and Soviet empires. Documenting the Russian conquest and domination of more than 100 large and small national groups, the book details ethnic migrations, rivalries, and conflicts against the backdrops of key historic events such as the Russian Revolution, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the breakup of the Soviet Union. Ranging from 9th century Eastern Slav expansion to the disintegration of the Communist empire and the rise of Russia's present version of democracy, the book explores the wide range of regional cultures and explains the cultural and nationalistic currents that led to centuries of political, social, and territorial struggles.

Author : Francine Hirsch
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455936
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Nations written by Francine Hirsch and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 1917, the Bolsheviks had called for the national self-determination of all peoples and had condemned all forms of colonization as exploitative. After attaining power, however, they began to express concern that it would not be possible for Soviet Russia to survive without the cotton of Turkestan and the oil of the Caucasus. In an effort to reconcile their anti-imperialist position with their desire to hold on to as much territory as possible, the Bolsheviks integrated the national idea into the administrative-territorial structure of the new Soviet state. In Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the new Soviet Union. The ethnographers—who drew inspiration from the Western European colonial context—produced all-union censuses, assisted government commissions charged with delimiting the USSR's internal borders, led expeditions to study "the human being as a productive force," and created ethnographic exhibits about the "Peoples of the USSR." In the 1930s, they would lead the Soviet campaign against Nazi race theories. Hirsch illuminates the pervasive tension between the colonial-economic and ethnographic definitions of Soviet territory; this tension informed Soviet social, economic, and administrative structures. A major contribution to the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, Empire of Nations also offers new insights into the connection between ethnography and empire.

Author : Eugene Lyons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258330712
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Secret Allies written by Eugene Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780943056401
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary written by Robert Bird and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the most striking manifestations of Soviet image culture were the children's book and the poster. This text plots the development of this new image culture alongside the formation of new social and cultural identities.

Author : Jonathan Brunstedt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108584888
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Myth of World War II written by Jonathan Brunstedt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a bold new interpretation of the Soviet myth of World War II from its Stalinist origins to its emergence as arguably the supreme myth of state under Brezhnev. Jonathan Brunstedt offers a timely historical investigation into the roots of the revival of the war's memory in Russia today.

Author : Galina Vasilevna Starovotova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sovereignty After Empire written by Galina Vasilevna Starovotova and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrea Lee
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 030749036X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Journal written by Andrea Lee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A subtly crafted reflection of both the bleak and golden shadings of Russian life . . . Its tones belong more to the realm of poetry than journalism.” –The New York Times Book Review At age twenty-five, Andrea Lee joined her husband, a Harvard doctoral candidate in Russian history, for his eight months’ study at Moscow State University and an additional two months in Leningrad. Published to enormous critical acclaim in 1981, Russian Journal is the award-winning author’s penetrating, vivid account of her everyday life as an expatriate in Soviet culture, chronicling her fascinating exchanges with journalists, diplomats, and her Soviet contemporaries. The winner of the Jean Stein Award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters–and the book that launched Lee’s career as a writer–Russian Journal is a beautiful and clear-eyed travel-writing classic. “[Lee] takes us wherever she is, conveying a feeling of place and atmosphere that is the mark of real talent.” –The Washington Post Book World “A book of very great charm . . . [Lee] records what she saw and heard with unassuming delicacy and exactness.” –Newsweek

Author : Cynthia M. Horne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107198135
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union written by Cynthia M. Horne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of the efforts of state and non-state actors in the former Soviet Union to redress the past.

Author : William Mandel
Publisher : University of Alberta Press and Ramparts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet But Not Russian: The Other Peoples of the Soviet Union written by William Mandel and published by University of Alberta Press and Ramparts Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description

Author : Michael Rasell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317962206
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union written by Michael Rasell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over thirty million disabled people in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet their voices are rarely heard in scholarly studies of life and well-being in the region. This book brings together new research by internationally recognised local and non-native scholars in a range of countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It covers, historically, the origins of legacies that continue to affect well-being and policy in the region today. Discussions of disability in culture and society highlight the broader conditions in which disabled people must build their identities and well-being whilst in-depth biographical profiles outline what living with disabilities in the region is like. Chapters on policy interventions, including international influences, examine recent reforms and the difficulties of implementing inclusive, community-based care. The book will be of interest both to regional specialists, for whom well-being, equality and human rights are crucial concerns, and to scholars of disability and social policy internationally.