Tsars Comrades And Prophets

Author : Sophie Duhnkrack
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640340027
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tsars, Comrades and Prophets: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Islam in Russia and the Former Soviet Union written by Sophie Duhnkrack and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Islamic Studies, grade: 92, Ben Gurion University, course: Tsars, Comrades and Prophets: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Islam in Russia and the Former Soviet Union, language: English, abstract: For almost a millennium Russia has interacted with Islam. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Islam has had a considerable impact on the formation of a new Russian identity. The “ideological and cultural vacuum” generated by the enormous political change hampers the creation of this identity. In the new liberty, formerly excluded and suppressed minorities strive for self-determination and recognition of their rights. The following study briefly depicts the new political situation. Further it analyzes the policies of the post-Soviet Russian Federation government and its consequences for Russian Muslims; it compares them with the policies of the Central Asian state of Uzbekistan. Using Turkey as a specific example, conclusions are drawn about the effects of this new socio-political climate on Russian Muslims.

Author : Adam B. Ulam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135130786X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia written by Adam B. Ulam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magisterial and exciting book, Ulam offers a brilliant history of Russian political and intellectual life in those critical years from 1855 to 1884 and describes the successive conspiracies that shook the edifice of tsarist autocracy.

Author : Robert D Crews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674030036
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Prophet and Tsar written by Robert D Crews and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In stark contrast to the popular "clash of civilizations" theory that sees Islam inevitably in conflict with the West, Robert D. Crews reveals the remarkable ways in which Russia constructed an empire with broad Muslim support. For Prophet and Tsar unearths the fascinating relationship between an empire and its subjects. As America and Western Europe debate how best to secure the allegiances of their Muslim populations, Crews offers a unique and critical historical vantage point.

Author : Kenneth Kann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801480751
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comrades and Chicken Ranchers written by Kenneth Kann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a portrait of the Petaluma Jewish community from the early years of the century to the present day. Kenneth L. Kann interviewed more than two hundred residents, representing three generations of Jewish Americans. The picture that emerges from their testimony is of a wonderfully animated and fractious community. Its history blends many of the familiar themes of American Jewish life into a richly individual tapestry. In the first few decades of this century, many Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe wound up in Petaluma. This first generation of chicken farmers consisted largely of educated, often professional men and women; many were drawn to chicken farming as much by Marxist or Zionist beliefs in the dignity of labor as by economic necessity. They helped establish the particular character of a community, with its combination of arduous work and cultural aspiration.

Author : Victor Zhivov
Publisher : Ars Rossica
ISBN 13 : 9781618118042
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Tsar and God" and Other Essays in Russian Cultural Semiotics written by Victor Zhivov and published by Ars Rossica. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a number of pioneering essays by the internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection includes a number of essays appearing in English for the fi rst time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of Russia's cultural development, these essaysexamine the survival and the reconceptualization of the past in later cultural systems and some of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness. The essays in this collection contain some important examples of Russian cultural semiotics and remain indispensable contributions to the history of Russian civilization.

Author : Isaac Deutscher
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859844410
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prophet Armed written by Isaac Deutscher and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of the trilogy traces Trotsky's political development.

Author : Isaac Deutscher
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781687218
Total Pages : 1019 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prophet written by Isaac Deutscher and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that his life and influence would be relegated to the footnotes of history. Published over the course of ten years, beginning in 1954, Deutscher's magisterial three-volume biography turned back the tide of Stalin's propaganda, and has since been praised by everyone from Tony Blair to Graham Greene. In this definitive work, now reissued in a single volume, Trotsky's true stature emerges as the most heroic, and ultimately tragic, character of the Russian Revolution.

Author : Boris Kolonitskii
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509533664
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comrade Kerensky written by Boris Kolonitskii and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the heroes of the 1917 February Revolution and then Prime Minister at the head of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky was passionately, even fanatically, lauded as a leader during his brief political reign. Symbolic artefacts – sculptures, badges and medals - featuring his likeness abounded. Streets were renamed after him, his speeches were quoted on gravestones and literary odes dedicated to him proliferated in the major press. But, by October, Kerensky had been unceremoniously dethroned in the Bolshevik takeover and had fled to Paris and then to the US, where he would remain exiled and removed from his former glory until his death. The breakneck trajectory of his rise and fall and the intensity of his popularity were not merely a symptom of the chaos of those times but offer a window onto a much broader historical phenomenon which did not just begin with Lenin and Stalin – the cult of the leader. In this major new study of the Russian leadership cult, Boris Kolonitskii uses the figure of Kerensky to show how popular engagement with the idea of the leader became a key component of a cultural re-imagining of the political landscape after the fall of the monarchy. A parallel revolution was taking place on the level of creating a resonant political vocabulary where one had not existed before, and it was in the shared exercise of bestowing and dissolving authority that a politicised way of seeing began to emerge. Kolonitskii plots the unfurling of this symbolic revolution by examining the tapestry of images woven by Kerensky and those around him, and, in so doing, exposes his vital role in the development of nascent Soviet political culture. This highly original portrait of a revolutionary sheds new light on the cult of Kerensky that developed around this charismatic leader during the months following the overthrow of the tsar. It will be of value to students and scholars of Russian history and to those interested in political culture.

Author : György Litván
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 615505360X
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Twentieth Century Prophet written by György Litván and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at a man, who fought for liberal ideals and for progress in Central Europe but was forced to spend the latter half of his life in America. Oscar Jászi was a historian, political theorist and sociologist, who dedicated his tremendous intellect to modern democracy in Hungary. Exiled from his homeland, Jászi's moral courage stood strong against the political tyranny and totalitarianism of the interwar period that nearly destroyed Hungary's political and social foundations. From his early years in Budapest to his later life as professor at Oberlin College in Ohio, he worked tirelessly for what he described as "a new moral, social, and economic synthesis is needed." The life of Oscar Jászi represents one of the great triumphs of reason over violence, regardless of the defeat of his vision for a 'Danubian Federation,' and his subsequent exile. His vow to not be buried in an undemocratic Hungary was kept, and as his country emerged from the ruins of the Soviet block, his remains were transferred to Budapest in 1991, a symbol of his lasting philosophy and the spirit of his will.

Author : Francesco Forlenza
Publisher : Armando Editore
ISBN 13 : 8866778516
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dostoyevsky prophet of the tyrannies written by Francesco Forlenza and published by Armando Editore. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: @font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } With precise literary references, this historical review demonstrates that only Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) foresaw the advent of totalitarianisms in the 1900’s, such as atheist communism and pagan naziism. The russian novelist, prodigiously interpreting the terrorism of his time, also called nihilism, predicted, half a century in advance, the world of concentration camps which would come into being with the Gulag and the Lager. The events of the 19th century have subjected Dostoyevsky’s message to a surprising empirical verification. For this reason the Russian novelist is still extraordinarily relevant today, as highlighted by the author with his eyes focused on the present, as the repose of reason is always possible, and gives rise to monsters.