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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Beyond the pale: the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia Author: Nathans, Benjamin Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Jewish Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinte . . . [more] Matches in book (685): ...The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia... ...A WINDOW ON RUSSIA... ...RUSSIA COMES TO THE JEWS... Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sonia's daughters: prostitutes and their regulation in imperial Russia Author: Bernstein, Laurie Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| European History \| European Studies \| Women's Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Prostitution in Imperial Russia was so tenacious that it survived not only the tsarist regime's most tumultuous years but the Bolshevik revolution itself. Laurie Bernstein's comprehensive study is the first to look at how the state and society responded to the issue of prostitution - the attitudes o . . . [more] Matches in book (288): ...Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia... ...agree, resoundingly protesting government licensing for Russia's public houses.... ...their identification with official Russia and the regulation system that kept... Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Not by bread alone: social support in the new Russia Author: Caldwell, Melissa L 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| European Studies Publisher's Description: What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex - if no less necessary and nourishing - than the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the pos . . . [more] Matches in book (281): ...Social Support in the New Russia... ...The Social Economy of Poverty in Russia... ...are sensitive to comparisons between Russia and Africa, because these suggest... Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Popular theater and society in Tsarist Russia Author: Swift, Eugene Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Popular Culture \| European Literature \| European Studies Publisher's Description: This is the most comprehensive study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and significance of the new "people's theaters" that were created for the lower classes in St. Petersburg and Moscow between 1861 and 1917. His e . . . [more] Matches in book (317): ...Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia... ...CENSORSHIP IN RUSSIA... ...rapid social and political change that preceded the fall of Russia's Old Regime.... Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Russia's women: accommodation, resistance, transformation Author: Clements, Barbara Evans 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Women's Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women - and women's reactions to these efforts - have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original essays challenge a host of traditional as . . . [more] Matches in book (287): ...Russia's Women... ...Women's Honor in Early Modern Russia... ...Childbirth in Pre-Petrine Russia: Canon Law and Popular Traditions... Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Bread and authority in Russia, 1914-1921 Author: Lih, Lars T Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1914 and 1921, Russia experienced a national crisis that destroyed the tsarist state and led to the establishment of the new Bolshevik order. During this period of war, revolution, and civil war, there was a food-supply crisis. Although Russia was one of the world's major grain exporters, th . . . [more] Matches in book (162): ...Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914-1921... ...Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia . Cambridge, Mass. , 1960. ————. Red... ...H. , ed. The Workers' Revolution in Russia, 1917 . Cambridge, 1987. Kalendar'-... Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The collective and the individual in Russia: a study of practices Author: Kharkhordin, Oleg 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Social Theory \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia. Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, Kharkhordin demonstrates that Party rituals - which forced eac . . . [more] Matches in book (115): ...The Collective and the Individual in Russia... ...Perhaps medieval and then modern Russia was more concerned with publicizing... ...reformy Petra [Parish clergy in Russia since Peter's reforms]. Kazan, 1873.... Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Students, professors, and the state in tsarist Russia Author: Kassow, Samuel D Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History Publisher's Description: Between 1899 and 1911, student strikes and demonstrations disrupted Russia's higher educational institutions. The universities marched to their own peculiar tempo, however, and it was not until the strike of 1905 that student unrest coincided with mass movements outside the academic world. Students, . . . [more] Matches in book (230): ...Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia... ...Chapter I Higher Education in Russia... ...Reform of Higher Education in Soviet Russia: 1917–1921," Ph.D. diss. , Princeton... Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Physics and politics in revolutionary Russia Author: Josephson, Paul R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics - or, more aptly, science under stress - in Soviet Russia up to World War II. Focusing on Leningrad, center of Soviet physics until the late 1930s, Josephson discusses t . . . [more] Matches in book (169): ...Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia... ...The Physics Discipline in Tsarist Russia... ...et al. Moscow, 1988. Wells, H. G. Russia in the Shadows . New York: George H.... Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Crime, cultural conflict, and justice in rural Russia, 1856-1914 Author: Frank, Stephen 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Social Problems \| European History \| Law \| Criminology Publisher's Description: This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions between . . . [more] Matches in book (295): ...Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914... ...acknowledged the asymmetry within Russia's legal system. Such strategies are... ...population. Wcislo, Reforming Rural Russia, 12. On the 1906 changes in peasant... Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Russia's last capitalists: the Nepmen, 1921-1929 Author: Ball, Alan M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political backgrou . . . [more] Matches in book (165): ...Russia's Last Capitalists... ...1929, No. 27, p. 5; Newman, Seeing Russia , pp. 16, 214, 314; and Cash, Russian... ...20; 1928, No. 3, p. 2; Newman, Seeing Russia , p. 124. 35. Torgovye izvestiia ,... Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Culture of the future: the Proletkult movement in revolutionary Russia Author: Mally, Lynn Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Just days before the October 1917 Revolution, the Proletkult was formed in Petrograd to serve as an umbrella organization for numerous burgeoning working-class cultural groups. Advocates of the Proletkult hoped to devise new forms of art, education, and social relations that would express the spirit . . . [more] Matches in book (114): ...The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia... ...Tuchman, eds. The AvantGarde in Russia, 1910–1930: New Perspectives . Los... ...Identities in Early Twentieth Century Russia." Slavic Review , vol. 47, no. 1 (... Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: And now my soul is hardened: abandoned children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930 Author: Ball, Alan M Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Warfare, epidemics, and famine left millions of Soviet children homeless during the 1920s. Many became beggars, prostitutes, and thieves, and were denizens of both secluded underworld haunts and bustling train stations. Alan Ball's study of these abandoned children examines their lives and the strat . . . [more] Matches in book (136): ...Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930... ...1989): 159–166. Ball, Alan M . Russia’s Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921–... ...Sheila ———. ed. Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–1931 . Bloomington, Ind. ,... Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: An American engineer in Stalin's Russia: the memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934 Author: Witkin, Zara 1900-1940 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Autobiography \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In 1932 Zara Witkin, a prominent American engineer, set off for the Soviet Union with two goals: to help build a society more just and rational than the bankrupt capitalist system at home, and to seek out the beautiful film star Emma Tsesarskaia.His memoirs offer a detailed view of Stalin's bureaucr . . . [more] Matches in book (159): ...An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia... ...were astounded. Orchids in the dead of winter in Russia! How had M. gotten them?... ...I had noted. He, too, had reached Russia heavily laden with optimistic... Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900 Author: Brower, Daniel R Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on urbanization and cultural representations of the city, Brower constructs a synthetic view o . . . [more] Matches in book (248): ...Slavic Review ("Labor Violence in Russia in the Late Nineteenth Century," vol.... ...S. I. A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of semen Ivanovich... ...Modernization in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia. Princeton, 1980. Anokhina, L.... Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Iconography of power: Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin Author: Bonnell, Victoria E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology \| Popular Culture \| European Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Politics \| Art Criticism \| History \| European History Publisher's Description: Masters at visual propaganda, the Bolsheviks produced thousands of vivid and compelling posters after they seized power in October 1917. Intended for a semi-literate population that was accustomed to the rich visual legacy of the Russian autocracy and the Orthodox Church, political posters came to o . . . [more] Matches in book (149): ...realities and gender images in Soviet Russia, a situation illustrated by the... ...26, 80 , 297 n.67 Kuznets, 23 , 285 n.5 in Russia, 29 -30 See also Blacksmith... ...a major problem in Civil War Russia, when traditional hierarchies had been... Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The scar of revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the romantic imagination Author: Grudzinska-Gross, Irena Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European Literature \| Intellectual History Matches in book (370): ...Violence in Russia... ...America, Russia, and Freedom... ...PART ONE CUSTINE IN RUSSIA... Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The politics of Muslim cultural reform: jadidism in Central Asia Author: Khalid, Adeeb 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Islam \| Asian Studies \| Asian History \| European History Publisher's Description: Adeeb Khalid offers the first extended examination of cultural debates in Central Asia during Russian rule. With the Russian conquest in the 1860s and 1870s the region came into contact with modernity. The Jadids, influential Muslim intellectuals, sought to safeguard the indigenous Islamic culture b . . . [more] Matches in book (182): ...as problematic construct, 16 ; Russia as bearer of, 51 Executive Committees of... ...the Red Star: Enver Pasha in Soviet Russia , 1919-1922 (Tokyo, 1991). Bor'ba (... ...Lih, Lars T. Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914-1921 . Berkeley: University of... Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: When the Soviet Union entered world politics Author: Jacobson, Jon 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Politics \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union. Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end . . . [more] Matches in book (513): ...3 Revolutionary Russia and Islamic Asia... ...Russia and the West After 1922... ...Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia... Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Darwin in Russian thought Author: Vucinich, Alexander 1914- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Science \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Darwin in Russian Thought represents the first comprehensive and systematic study of Charles Darwin's influence on Russian thought from the early 1860s to the October Revolution. While concentrating on the role of Darwin's theory in the development of Russian science and philosophy, Vucinich also ex . . . [more] Matches in book (212): ...Russia's Forerunners of Darwin... ...a "highly developed intellectual type" that was still absent in Russia. 70... ...anthropology was clearly one of the less developed academic interests in Russia.... Similar Items

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