The Volga

Author : Janet M. Hartley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245645
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Volga written by Janet M. Hartley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga--the first to fully reveal its vital place in Russian history The longest river in Europe, the Volga stretches over three and a half thousand km from the heart of Russia to the Caspian Sea, separating west from east. The river has played a crucial role in the history of the peoples who are now a part of the Russian Federation--and has united and divided the land through which it flows. Janet Hartley explores the history of Russia through the Volga from the seventh century to the present day. She looks at it as an artery for trade and as a testing ground for the Russian Empire's control of the borderlands, at how it featured in Russian literature and art, and how it was crucial for the outcome of the Second World War at Stalingrad. This vibrant account unearths what life on the river was really like, telling the story of its diverse people and its vital place in Russian history.

Author : Sigrid Weidenweber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938848070
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Volga Germans written by Sigrid Weidenweber and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the establishment of the German colonies along the Volga River near Saratov in the 18th century and the development of these colonies through the 19th century and up to the point of the Russian Revolution, drawn from historic source material.

Author : Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782384324
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rivers, Memory, And Nation-building written by Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers figure prominently in a nation’s historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Beginning in the pre-modern world, both rivers served as critical trade routes connecting cultures in an extensive exchange network, while also sustaining populations through their surrounding wetlands and bottomlands. In modern times, “Mother Volga” and the “Father of Waters” became integral parts of national identity, contributing to a sense of Russian and American exceptionalism. Furthermore, both rivers were drafted into service as the means to modernize the nation-state through hydropower and navigation. Despite being forced into submission for modern-day hydrological regimes, the Volga and Mississippi Rivers persist in the collective memory and continue to offer solace, recreation, and sustenance. Through their histories we derive a more nuanced view of human interaction with the environment, which adds another lens to our understanding of the past.

Author : George G. Brunts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Allied Propaganda and the Collapse of the German Empire in 1918 written by George G. Brunts and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marq De Villiers
Publisher : New York : Viking
ISBN 13 : 9780670843534
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down the Volga written by Marq De Villiers and published by New York : Viking. This book was released on 1991 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author combines travel writing with history and folklore as he travels along the Volga River in the heart of modern Russia.

Author : Curzio Malaparte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841580968
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Volga Rises in Europe written by Curzio Malaparte and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Italy was allied with Germany in World War II, the Italian viewpoint on the war often differed sharply from that of the Germans. Malaparte was an eyewitness to the campaigns in Finland, the Ukraine, and Leningrad, and has left behind a moving account of many small incidents in the day-to-day conduct of the war

Author : Donald J. Raleigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution on the Volga written by Donald J. Raleigh and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fred C. Koch
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271038144
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Volga Germans written by Fred C. Koch and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard D. Scheuerman
Publisher : Washington State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0874223962
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hardship to Homeland written by Richard D. Scheuerman and published by Washington State University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardship to Homeland recounts Volga Germans’ unique story in a saga that stretches from Germany to Russia and across the Atlantic. Burdened by war and debt, life was extremely difficult for impoverished European peasants until a former German princess came to power. Seeking to increase borderland population, provide a buffer against Ottoman Empire incursions, and bring agricultural ingenuity to her country, Russian empress Catherine II issued a remarkable 1763 manifesto inviting Europeans to immigrate. Their passage paid, colonists would become Russian citizens, yet retain their language and culture. For the next four years, some 27,000 settlers came--mostly from Hesse and the Palatinate--founding 104 communities along both banks of the Volga River near Saratov and introducing numerous agricultural innovations. But the Russian Senate revoked the original settlement terms in 1871. Facing poor economic conditions and a forced Russian army draft, 100,000 Volga Germans joined other immigrant waves to the New World. After a decade of hardship in the Midwest, some began moving to the Pacific Northwest, and their westward movement was one of the region’s largest single ethnic group migrations. From outposts in Washington State they spread throughout the Columbia Basin, along the coast, and into northern Idaho, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alberta, transforming their new homelands into centers of western productivity and significantly influencing North American religion, politics, and social development. Hardship to Homeland is a revised and expanded reprint of The Volga Germans: Pioneers of the Northwest, published in 1985 and long out of print. This edition offers a new introduction as well as Volga German folk stories from the Pacific Northwest, collected and retold by Richard D. Scheuerman, with illustrations by Jim Gerlitz.

Author : Antonio Gil
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682474518
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stalingrad written by Antonio Gil and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stalingrad. From August 1942 to February 1943 this model industrial city, bathed by the waters of the Volga, was home to the bloodiest battle of World War II. Stalingrad: Letters from the Volga offers a fast-paced depiction of this titanic struggle: explicit, crude, and without concessions—just as the war and the memory of all those involved demands. The battle rendered devastating results. Almost two million human beings were marked forever in its crosshairs, a frightening figure comprised of the dead, injured, sick, captured, and missing. Military and civilians alike paid with their lives for the personal fight between Stalin and Hitler, which materialized in long months of primitive conflict among the smoking ruins of Stalingrad and its surroundings. Stalingrad: Letters from the Volga presents the battle, beginning to end, through the eyes of Russian and German soldiers. Take a chronological tour of the massacre, relive the fights, and feel the drama of trying to survive in a relentless hell of ice and snow."