Barker / Grant / Kirk The Russia Reader

History, Culture, Politics
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9258-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 792 Seiten

Reihe: The World Readers

An introduction to the history, culture, and politics of the worlds largest country, from the earliest written accounts of the Russian people to today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barker, Adele Marie

Grant, Bruce

Kirk, Robin

Starn, Orin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

General Introduction 1

I. Icons and Archetypes 13

II. From Kyiv through Moscovy 61

III. Reform to Revolution 97

IV. Far Pavilions: Siberia 151

V. A Changing Countryside 201

VI. Near Pavilions: The Caucasus 257

VII. Revolution 305

VIII. Building a New World from Old 351

IX. Rising Stalinism 401

X. The Great Terror 447

XI. The War Years 493

XII. the Thaw 537

XIII. Russians Abroad, Near and Far 573

XIV. Life under Advanced Socialism 615

XV. Things Fall Apart 667

XVI. Building a New World, Again 701

Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 743

Suggestions for Further Reader 753

Index 765

Über Autor(innen)

Adele Barker is Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the editor of Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev, also published by Duke University Press; co-editor of The History of Women’s Writing in Russia; and author of Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka.Bruce Grant is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University. He is the author of The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus and In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas.