Russians And Others
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Russians And Others
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Author : Lawrence Lyonhardt
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 1991
Russians And Others written by Lawrence Lyonhardt and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Rulers And Victims
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Author : Geoffrey Hosking
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Rulers And Victims written by Geoffrey Hosking and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with History categories.
Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union "Russia." Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end, in fact, Russia actually destroyed the Soviet Union. How did this happen, and what kind of Russia emerged? In this illuminating book, Geoffrey Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians. One of the keys lies in messianism--the idea rooted in Russian Orthodoxy that the Russians were a "chosen people." The communists reshaped this notion into messianic socialism, in which the Soviet order would lead the world in a new direction. Neither vision, however, fit the "community spirit" of the Russian people, and the resulting clash defined the Soviet world. Hosking analyzes how the Soviet state molded Russian identity, beginning with the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution and civil war. He discusses the severe dislocations resulting from collectivization and industrialization; the relationship between ethnic Russians and other Soviet peoples; the dramatic effects of World War II on ideas of homeland and patriotism; the separation of "Russian" and "Soviet" culture; leadership and the cult of personality; and the importance of technology in the Soviet world view. At the heart of this penetrating work is the fundamental question of what happens to a people who place their nationhood at the service of empire. There is no surer guide than Geoffrey Hosking to reveal the historical forces forging Russian identity in the post-communist world.
Who Are The Russians
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Author : Wright Watts Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Who Are The Russians written by Wright Watts Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with History categories.
Russians
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Author : Gregory Feifer
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-02-18
Russians written by Gregory Feifer and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-18 with Political Science categories.
From former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer comes an incisive portrait that draws on vivid personal stories to portray the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries-and continue to do so today. Russians explores the seeming paradoxes of life in Russia by unraveling the nature of its people: what is it in their history, their desires, and their conception of themselves that makes them baffling to the West? Using the insights of his decade as a journalist in Russia, Feifer corrects pervasive misconceptions by showing that much of what appears inexplicable about the country is logical when seen from the inside. He gets to the heart of why the world's leading energy producer continues to exasperate many in the international community. And he makes clear why President Vladimir Putin remains popular even as the gap widens between the super-rich and the great majority of poor. Traversing the world's largest country from the violent North Caucasus to Arctic Siberia, Feifer conducted hundreds of intimate conversations about everything from sex and vodka to Russia's complex relationship with the world. From fabulously wealthy oligarchs to the destitute elderly babushki who beg in Moscow's streets, he tells the story of a society bursting with vitality under a leadership rooted in tradition and often on the edge of collapse despite its authoritarian power. Feifer also draws on formative experiences in Russia's past and illustrative workings of its culture to shed much-needed light on the purposely hidden functioning of its society before, during, and after communism. Woven throughout is an intimate, first-person account of his family history, from his Russian mother's coming of age among Moscow's bohemian artistic elite to his American father's harrowing vodka-fueled run-ins with the KGB. What emerges is a rare portrait of a unique land of extremes whose forbidding geography, merciless climate, and crushing corruption has nevertheless produced some of the world's greatest art and some of its most remarkable scientific advances. Russians is an expertly observed, gripping profile of a people who will continue challenging the West for the foreseeable future.
The Other Russia
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Author : Michael Glenny
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 1991
The Other Russia written by Michael Glenny and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Russians
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Author : Robin Milner-Gulland
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2000-04-07
The Russians written by Robin Milner-Gulland and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-07 with History categories.
This book examines the history of the Russian peoples from the time of the first inhabitants of "Old Russia", or "Rus", up to the present day.
Russia
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Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1997
Russia written by Geoffrey A. Hosking and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises from the rubble, once again the great nation--a perfect scenario, but for one point: Russia was never a nation. And this, says the eminent historian Geoffrey Hosking, is at the heart of the Russians' dilemma today, as they grapple with the rudiments of nationhood. His book is about the Russia that never was, a three-hundred-year history of empire building at the expense of national identity. Russia begins in the sixteenth century, with the inception of one of the most extensive and diverse empires in history. Hosking shows how this undertaking, the effort of conquering, defending, and administering such a huge mixture of territories and peoples, exhausted the productive powers of the common people and enfeebled their civic institutions. Neither church nor state was able to project an image of "Russian-ness" that could unite elites and masses in a consciousness of belonging to the same nation. Hosking depicts two Russias, that of the gentry and of the peasantry, and reveals how the gap between them, widened by the Tsarist state's repudiation of the Orthodox messianic myth, continued to grow throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Here we see how this myth, on which the empire was originally based, returned centuries later in the form of the revolutionary movement, which eventually swept away the Tsarist Empire but replaced it with an even more universalist one. Hosking concludes his story in 1917, but shows how the conflict he describes continues to affect Russia right up to the present day.
The Good Russians
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Author : Artem Medvedev
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-01-22
The Good Russians written by Artem Medvedev and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-22 with categories.
It's 2017. I live in one of the world's most developed countries. I'm writing about Russophobia.Why? Because I've been experiencing it more and more over the past few years. Because it's making me sick to my stomach. Because it has to stop.It's very hard to watch or read the news nowadays without coming across the image of "the Russians". These "Russians" are around every corner, inside every computer programme, behind every hacking, scandal, crisis, and so on and so forth. These "Russians" helped Donald Trump win the US Presidential Election. These "Russians" wish to undermine democracy, humiliate the West, flame the horrors of war, and overall be the monsters that they are indefinitely. The "Russians" here. The "Russians" there. The media, the politicians, the public are all getting so engrossed into the idea of this apparently clear-cut mutual enemy that they do not recognize just how much pain and confusion they are actually causing. Most of the time, the enemy they actually mean to target is Vladimir Putin and his regime, but, oh well, who said that collateral damage is something to worry about? Let's just use a more inclusive term, "the Russians"? Everyone good with that?The vivid imagery of the clumsy angry bear, the weird fur hats, the tanks rolling in, the half-human monsters, the Hollywood-created "Russian" accent, courtesy of the definitive "Russians" Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dolph Lundgren... all of that is back. Meanwhile, of course, Putin and his "Russia" continue to bomb hospitals, violate international treaties, and find new ways to show the world that they are to be reckoned with. That doesn't make the situation any easier to deal with or the Russophobia any easier to fight against. Many would say that that facts are there to condemn and charge the "Russians". This book is meant as an attempt to reframe the discussion and point out that by fuelling further Russophobia, the media and other influencers are playing right into Putin's hands. For years, he has been searching for a national philosophy that would unite the people behind him. By turning not just him and his regime, but the Russian people and Russia as a country into a pariah and a monster, the West gives Vladimir Putin what he has been seeking all this time - the battle cry of courage under fire and unity in the face of universal treachery and the global plot to strangle Russia. A different kind of Russians is talked about here. These are all real people that have nothing to do with Putin's crimes, plans, thoughts, or feelings (if such exist). These are not the "Russians" you hear about on TV or read about in the blogs. They are the real Russians that, in their lifetimes, made the world a better place, and whose influence continues to this day. The chapters can be read in any order. It is my hope that reading about these ten remarkable individuals will help you shed some of the stereotypes and imagery being carefully fostered today.
Russia S Postcolonial Identity
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Author : V. Morozov
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-03-04
Russia S Postcolonial Identity written by V. Morozov and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-04 with Political Science categories.
Pushing postcolonial studies and constructivist International Relations towards an uneasy dialogue, this book looks at Russia as a subaltern empire. It demonstrates how the dialectic of the subaltern and the imperial has produced a radically anti-Western regime, which nevertheless remains locked in a Eurocentric outlook.
The Other Russia
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Author : Leo Granberg
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-10-04
The Other Russia written by Leo Granberg and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Political Science categories.
Most recent research seeks to explain contemporary changes in Russia by analysing the decisions of Russian leaders, oligarchs and politicians based in Moscow. This book examines another Russia, one of ordinary people changing their environment and taking opportunities to provoke societal changes in small towns and the countryside. Russia is a resource-rich society and the country’s strategy and institutional structure are built on the most valuable of these resources: oil and gas. Analysing the implications of this situation at the local level, this book offers chapters on resource use, local authorities, enterprises, poverty and types of individual, as well as a final chapter which places local societies within the framework of the Russian politicised economy. Based on extensive empirical data gathered through more than 400 semi-structured interviews with entrepreneurs, teachers, social workers and those working for the local authorities, this book sheds light on the role of local activity in the development of Russian society and is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Russia and its politics.