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Your search for russia in text, title, author, description found 816 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 121 - 140 of 816 book(s) | |
| 121. |  | Title: From friend to comrade: the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927 Author: Van de Ven, Hans J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | China | Politics Publisher's Description: Scholars have long held that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a centralized organization from its founding in 1921. In a departure from that view, From Friend to Comrade demonstrates how the CCP began as a group of study societies, only evolving into a mass Marxist-Leninist party by 1927.Hans J . . . [more] Matches in book (19): ...words, there will be a revolution like Russia's February Revolution. The man in... Similar Items...Eguo zhi Yanjiu [Research on the New Russia] 80 Laonung Zhengfu yu Zhongguo [... ...the throes of a world revolution, with Russia, "the place where the proletarian... |
| 122. |  | Title: Berlin metropolis: Jews and the new culture, 1890-1918 Author: Bilski, Emily D 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Art | History | Jewish Studies | German Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1890 and 1918 the city of Berlin evolved into a commercial and industrial hub that also became an international center for radical new ideas in the visual, performing, and literary arts. Jews were key leaders in developing this unique cosmopolitan culture. Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...the new wave of pogroms in czarist Russia that began in 1903 with the Kishinev... Similar Items...6,000 Jews to Argentina. France and Russia negotiate entente. The skeletal... ...originally immigrated to Berlin from Russia, had acquired works by Manet, Monet,... |
| 123. |  | Title: The comparative imagination: on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements  Author: Fredrickson, George M 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History Publisher's Description: In this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson provides an eloquent and vigorous examination of r . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...108 Modernization of Japan and Russia, 25 Modern World-System, 26 Montgomery bus... Similar Items...A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Cambridge, U.K. , 1979).... ...The Modernization of Japan and Russia , a magisterial product of integrated team... |
| 124. |  | Title: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers Author: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | African Studies | African History | Politics Publisher's Description: "Africa for the Africans" was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black social protest movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). Volumes I-VII of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers chronicled the Garvey movement that flourished in the Unit . . . [more] Matches in book (30): ...political developments in Ireland, Russia, Egypt, and India. 2. The remainder of... Similar Items...657 ; reparations by, 545 n. 6; and Russia, 410 , 414 n. 5, 560 , 562 n. 6; in... ...G. F. , 342 Ruffin, George L. , 107 Russia: and Germany, 410 , 414 n. 5, 560 ,... |
| 125. |  | Title: Academic freedom and the Japanese imperial university, 1868-1939 Author: Marshall, Byron K Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Education Publisher's Description: Byron K. Marshall offers here a dramatic study of the changing nature and limits of academic freedom in prewar Japan, from the Meiji Restoration to the eve of World War II.Meiji leaders founded Tokyo Imperial University in the late nineteenth century to provide their new government with necessary te . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...country's first students to study in Russia]." Rekishigaku kenkyu 10, no. 6 (... Similar Items...142 on Takigawa Affair, 154 , 157 Russia study abroad in, 26 war against, 7 ,... ...of a hard-line policy vis-à-vis Russia. Encouraged by Prince Konoe, the six... |
| 126. |  | Title: Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisis Author: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...would collapse as soon as German troops marched into Russia (Rich 1992, 215).... Similar Items...Dallin, Alexander. 1957. German Rule in Russia, 1941–1945: A Study in Occupation... ...A. 1973. German Strategy against Russia, 1939–1941. Oxford: Clarendon Press.... |
| 127. |  | Title: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East Author: Heydemann, Steven Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill th . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...to kick out Russia from the country; Russia wanted to create a military base and... Similar Items...state, so he told them, No, we don’t want you. Then Russia tricked him. . . .... ...Russia entered Palestine. When asked to elaborate on how Russia came to enter... |
| 128. |  | Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | China Publisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...38 , 41 Rong Yiren, 132 , 140 n8 Russia, 111 , 139 , 159 See also Soviet Union... Similar Items...Steven. 1995. "A Corrupt Tide in Russia from State-Business Ties. New York... ...Stanley, Alessandra. 1995. "To Russia's New Elite, Politics Is Good Business."... |
| 129. |  | Title: In the shadow of catastrophe: German intellectuals between apocalypse and enlightenment Author: Rabinbach, Anson Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | German Studies | Social and Political Thought | Philosophy Publisher's Description: These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy. Rabinbach explores their ideas in relation to the two world wars and the horrors facing Europe at that time.Analyzing the work of Benjamin . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...Franz, 30 , 31 , 50 , 223 n.118 Russia: intellectuals and, 71 , 73 , 74 ;... Similar Items...mentions the importance of events in Russia and Germany for Benjamin in 1919, as... ...for the events unfolding in Russia. According to Scholem, I represented the more... |
| 130. |  | Title: Provincial passages: culture, space, and the origins of Chinese communism Author: Yeh, Wen-hsin Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | China | History Publisher's Description: Revealing information that has been suppressed in the Chinese Communist Party's official history, Wen-hsin Yeh presents an insightful new view of the Party's origins. She moves away from an emphasis on Mao and traces Chinese Communism's roots to the country's culturally conservative agrarian heartla . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...96 -98, 100 , 136 , 161 -67, 192 -93 Russia, 82 , 209 , 234 , 330 n22, 303 n42;... Similar Items...C. Price's path-breaking study, Russia and the Roots of the Chinese Revolution,... ...over personal feuds. See Price, Russia , 129-30. 41. Jing Ziyuan thereafter... |
| 131. |  | Title: A surplus of memory: chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising Author: Zuckerman, Yitzhak 1915-1981 Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies | European History Publisher's Description: In 1943, against utterly hopeless odds, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up to defy the Nazi horror machine that had set out to exterminate them. One of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the uprisings, was Yitzhak Zuckerman, known by his underground pseudonym, Antek. Decad . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...who was close to He-Halutz, escaped to Russia. You can read about him in Shalom... Similar Items...permission. Apparently he went to Russia, where he wandered around. One day, he... ...in my parents' story when Father was in Russia and World War I divided him from... |
| 132. |  | Title: Stravinsky and the Rite of spring: the beginnings of a musical language Author: Van den Toorn, Pieter C 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Music | Composers Matches in book (11): ...Lineff, The Peasant Songs of Great Russia (St. Petersburg, 1905). " The Rite... Similar Items...Lineff, The Peasant Songs of Great Russia , vol. 1 (St. Petersburg, 1905), pp.... ...the summer of 1911 at Ustilug, Russia. He may have begun Craft, "Commentary to... |
| 133. |  | Title: China reporting: an oral history of American journalism in the 1930's and 1940's Author: Mackinnon, Stephen R Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | China | Asian History | Print Media Publisher's Description: China Reporting documents the gathering of American journalists, diplomats and China scholars, "old China hands" all, who met in 1982 to discuss their experience in China. Matches in book (11): ...cars and starting them back to Russia. A lot of the loot, of course, didn't get... Similar Items...between those who had implicit faith in Russia and those more moderate in their... ...responded. Well, the line vis-à-vis Russia, it seemed to me, in the Chungking... |
| 134. |  | Title: Japan's total empire: Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism Author: Young, Louise 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Asian History | Asian Studies | East Asia Other | Japan | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...1989. ———. Nomonhan: Japan against Russia, 1939 . 2 vols. Stanford: Stanford... Similar Items...Noson * kosei * undo * ), 358 , 360 Russia, 24 –26, 132 , 246 ; emigration and,... ...in wars with China (1894–1895) and Russia (1904–1905) gained Japan entry into... |
| 135. |  | Title: A history of modern Tibet, 1913-1951: the demise of the Lamaist state Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Tibet Publisher's Description: The "Tibetan Question," the nature of Tibet's political status vis-à-vis China, has been the subject of often bitterly competing views while the facts of the issue have not been fully accessible to interested observers. While one faction has argued that Tibet was, in the main, historically independe . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias; His Majesty the... Similar Items...Emperor of All the Russias, the Master of his Court Alexander Iswolsky, Minister... ...The Governments of Great Britain and Russia recognising the suzerain rights of... |
| 136. |  | Title: Society and politics in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla Author: Bagge, Sverre 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Medieval History | Medieval Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Heimskringla is the best known and most important book of Old Norse kings' sagas. A medieval masterpiece, the collection was written by Snorri Sturluson in the first half of the thirteenth century. The sagas have been studied primarily as literary sources and chronicles of specific historical events . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...164 , 178 Romans, 9 , 198 , 199 Russia, 36 , 53 -55, 85 , 138 , 154 , 183... Similar Items...247). Accordingly, Einarr and Kálfr go to Russia and return with the young King... ...through Norway and Sweden to Russia, his miracles and religious experiences... |
| 137. |  | Title: Khomeinism: essays on the Islamic Republic Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: "Fanatic," "dogmatic," "fundamentalist" - these are the words most often used in the West to describe the Ayatollah Khomeini. The essays in this book challenge that view, arguing that Khomeini and his Islamic movement should be seen as a form of Third World political populism - a radical but pragmat . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Ruhani, Hamid, 107 Rushdie, Salman, 124 -25 Russia (Tsarist), 95 , 97 , 116... Similar Items...siege and famine, see F. Kazemzadeh, Russia and Britain in Persia (New Haven:... ...Increase in the Political Influence of Russia and Britain in Iran," Ettela c at-... |
| 138. |  | Title: Lise Meitner: a life in physics Author: Sime, Ruth Lewin 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Science | Physics | Autobiographies and Biographies | Women's Studies | History | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became a prominent member of the international physi . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...friend shortly before he fell in Russia. 68. Dietrich Hahn, ed. , Otto Hahn,... Similar Items...whose grandfather had emigrated from Russia to Slovakia to escape the ongoing... ...competent eye surgeon who was born in Russia and trained in Zurich received... |
| 139. |  | Title: May her likes be multiplied: biography and gender politics in Egypt Author: Booth, Marilyn Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Women's Studies | Literature | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. Though biography had long been male-authored, in the late nineteenth century short sketches by and about women began to appear in biographical dictionaries and women's journals. By 1940, . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...led to the spread of Christianity in Russia, neither Arabic biography mentions... Similar Items...an obituary of Maria Theodorovna of Russia, from an essay by “Count Kokonitsoff”... ...La Clarté [? ]. A French woman living in Russia told her husband that if she was... |
| 140. |  | Title: Between memory and desire: the Middle East in a troubled age Author: Humphreys, R. Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | Islam | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Middle Easterners today are caught between memories of the past and frustrated hopes for the future. They struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involv . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...very different realms of India and Russia. 1 However its limits are defined, the... Similar Items...seems comparable on many levels to Russia during the same period, though it was... ...lines, mines, fisheries, etc. ), Russia by now utterly dominated the northern... |