All Russia Is Burning
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All Russia Is Burning
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Author : Cathy A. Frierson
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2012-11-10
All Russia Is Burning written by Cathy A. Frierson and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-10 with History categories.
Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia, as Cathy Frierson shows in this first comprehensive study. Destroying almost three billion rubles’ worth of property in European Russia between 1860 and 1904, accidental and arson fires acted as a brake on Russia’s economic development while subjecting peasants to perennial shocks to their physical and emotional condition. The fire question captured the attention of educated, progressive Russians, who came to perceived it as a key obstacle to Russia’s becoming a modern society in the European model. Using sources ranging from literary representations and newspaper articles to statistical tables and court records, Frierson demonstrates the many meanings fire held for both peasants and the educated elite. To peasants, it was an essential source of light and warmth as well as a destructive force that regularly ignited their cramped villages of wooden, thatch-roofed huts. Absent the rule of law, they often used arson to gain justice or revenge, or to exert social control over those who would violate village norms. Frierson shows that the vast majority of arson cases in European Russia were not peasant-against-gentry acts of protest but peasant-against-peasant acts of "self-help" law or plain spite. Both the state and individual progressives set out to resolve the fire question and to educate, cajole, or coerce the peasantry into the modern world. Fire insurance, building codes, "scientific" village layouts, and volunteer firefighting brigades reduced the average number of buildings consumed in each blaze, but none of these measures succeeded in curbing the number of fires each year. More than anything else, this history of fire and arson in rural European Russia is a history of their cultural meanings in the late imperial campaign for modernity. Frierson shows the special associations of women with fire in rural life and in elite understanding of fire in the Russian countryside. Her study of the fire question demonstrates both peasant agency in fighting fire and educated Russians' hardening conviction that peasants stood in the way of Russia's advent into the company of prosperous, rational, civilized nations.
The Burning Of Moscow
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Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2014-02-11
The Burning Of Moscow written by Alexander Mikaberidze and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-11 with History categories.
As soon as Napoleon and his Grand Army entered Moscow, on 14 September 1812, the capital erupted in flames that eventually engulfed and destroyed two thirds of the city. The fiery devastation had a profound effect on the Grand Army, but for thirty-five days Napoleon stayed, making increasingly desperate efforts to achieve peace with Russia. Then, in October, almost surrounded by the Russians and with winter fast approaching, he abandoned the capital and embarked on the long, bitter retreat that destroyed his army. The month-long stay in Moscow was a pivotal moment in the war of 1812 the moment when the initiative swung towards the Tsar's armies and spelled doom for the invading Grand Army yet it has rarely been studied in the same depth as the other key events of the campaign.Alexander Mikaberidze, in this third volume of his in-depth reassessment of the war between the French and Russian empires, emphasizes the importance of the Moscow fire and shows how Russian intransigence sealed the fate of the French army. He uses a vast array of French, German, Polish and Russian memoirs, letters and diaries as well as archival material in order to tell the dramatic story of the Moscow fire. Not only does he provide a comprehensive account of events, looking at them from both the French and Russian points of view, but he explores the Russians' motives for leaving, then burning their capital. Using extensive eyewitness accounts, he paints a vivid picture of the harsh reality of life in the remains of the occupied city and describes military operations around Moscow at this turning point in the campaign.
Russia In Revolution Being The Experiences Of An Englishman In Petrograd During The Upheaval
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Author : Stinton Jones
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Russia In Revolution Being The Experiences Of An Englishman In Petrograd During The Upheaval written by Stinton Jones and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...This wholesale destruction was probably an isolated case, but hundreds of people were injured by the careless use of weapons in unaccustomed hands. Quite a number of children shot themselves whilst playing with fire-arms. In the evening and throughout the night it was a weird and wonderful sight to see the rabble in the streets waving red flags and singing revolutionary songs, while the sky was aglow from the burning buildings. One particular fire was extremely picturesque, that of the large police and fire station situated near the Nikolai Station. All firestations throughout Russia are built with a very tall look-out tower usually surmounted by a very high mast. It is the practice that when there is a fire in the city, the look-out man on the tower hoists to the top of the mast signals to indicate to the look-out men on other towers the district in which the fire is burning. This particular station, combining both the police and fire-brigade stations, consisted of four floors above which was built this high tower, the whole reaching to a height of about 150 feet. This was one of the first stations that the mob fired, and when the flames secured a good hold on the building, the tower acted as a chimney and produced a most weird and terrifying picture silhouetted as it was against the night sky. Not content with the destruction of the police-stations and their contents, the crowd, who now began to realise their own strength, decided that all documents relating in any way whatsoever to the old regime and police organisation must be destroyed. This led them to private flats and the residences of local judges, which were stripped of every scrap of paper, books, documents, etc. These were burnt in the streets outside the houses. They did not...
Through The Burning Steppe
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Author : Elena Kozhina
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-03-01
Through The Burning Steppe written by Elena Kozhina and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A dramatic, compelling chronicle of a young Russian woman's exile and survival during World War II, and the story of her mother's indomitable strength in the face of life's greatest adversity.
Singapore Burning
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Author : Colin Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-05-04
Singapore Burning written by Colin Smith and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-04 with History categories.
Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, after Lt-Gen Percival's surrender led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture and death for thousands of allied men and women. With much new material from British, Australian, Indian and Japanese sources, Colin Smith has woven together the full and terrifying story of the fall of Singapore and its aftermath. Here, alongside cowardice and incompetence, are forgotten acts of enormous heroism; treachery yet heart-rending loyalty; Japanese compassion as well as brutality from the bravest and most capricious enemy the British ever had to face.
Everything You Love Will Burn
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Author : Vegas Tenold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Everything You Love Will Burn written by Vegas Tenold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with POLITICAL SCIENCE categories.
Reveals how white supremacist and nationalist groups rose in influence to achieve political support at the highest levels of government, examining the transformation of once-small groups into threatening mainstream organizations.
Burning Up
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Author : Simon Pirani
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2018
Burning Up written by Simon Pirani and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Energy consumption categories.
A history of the excesses of capitalism's rampant fossil fuel consumption since 1950.
A Burning
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Author : Megha Majumdar
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2020-06-02
A Burning written by Megha Majumdar and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-02 with Fiction categories.
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! A New York Times Notable Book For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. In this National Book Award Longlist honoree and “gripping thriller with compassionate social commentary” (USA Today), Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan's fall. Lovely—an irresistible outcast whose exuberant voice and dreams of glory fill the novel with warmth and hope and humor—has the alibi that can set Jivan free, but it will cost her everything she holds dear. Taut, symphonic, propulsive, and riveting from its opening lines, A Burning has the force of an epic while being so masterfully compressed it can be read in a single sitting. Majumdar writes with dazzling assurance at a breakneck pace on complex themes that read here as the components of a thriller: class, fate, corruption, justice, and what it feels like to face profound obstacles and yet nurture big dreams in a country spinning toward extremism. An extraordinary debut.
What Is To Be Done
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Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
language : en
Publisher: Imported Publications, Incorporated
Release Date : 1973
What Is To Be Done written by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and has been published by Imported Publications, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Political Science categories.
Russia
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Author : Philip Longworth
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2006-11-28
Russia written by Philip Longworth and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-28 with History categories.
Through the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these dramatic cycles of boom and bust from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible, and from the height of Communism to the truncated Russia of today. Philip Longworth explores the dynamics of Russia's past through time and space, from the nameless adventurers who first penetrated this vast, inhospitable terrain to a cast of dynamic characters that includes Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, and Stalin. His narrative takes in the magnificent, historic cities of Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg; it stretches to Alaska in the east, to the Black Sea and the Ottoman Empire to the south, to the Baltic in the west and to Archangel and the Artic Ocean to the north. Who are the Russians and what is the source of their imperialistic culture? Why was Russia so driven to colonize and conquer? From Kievan Rus'---the first-ever Russian state, which collapsed with the invasion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century---to ruthless Muscovy, the Russian Empire of the eighteenth century and finally the Soviet period, this groundbreaking study analyses the growth and dissolution of each vast empire as it gives way to the next. Refreshing in its insight and drawing on a vast range of scholarship, this book also explicitly addresses the question of what the future holds for Russia and her neighbors, and asks whether her sphere of influence is growing.