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| 21. |  | Title: Moral communities: the culture of class relations in the Russian printing industry, 1867-1907  Author: Steinberg, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: This valuable study offers a rare perspective on the social and political crisis in late Imperial Russia. Mark D. Steinberg focuses on employers, supervisors, and workers in the printing industry as it evolved from a state-dependent handicraft to a capitalist industry. He explores class relations an . . . [more] Matches in book (106): ...the workers' democratic claims in Russia, see Bonnell, Roots of Rebellion, pp.... Similar Items...pp. 407–11; Zelnik, "Passivity and Protest in Germany and Russia," p. 497.... ...Abraham. The Revolution of 1905: Russia in Disarray. Stanford, 1988. Bailes,... |
| 22. |  | Title: Owen Lattimore and the "loss" of China Author: Newman, Robert P Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | China | United States History | Politics Publisher's Description: In March 1950 Senator Joseph R. McCarthy accused Owen Lattimore, a distinguished China scholar at The Johns Hopkins University, of being "the top Soviet espionage agent in the U.S." The Senate Foreign Relations Committee exonerated Lattimore four months later, but for the next two years Pat McCarran . . . [more] Matches in book (180): ...did not relax their hostility toward Russia during the war. 4. Irons, "Cold War... Similar Items...did not relax their hostility toward Russia during the war. 4. Irons, "Cold War... ...Sub Rosa , 17. 23. "Cold War in Russia on Soviet Is Noted," New York Times ,... |
| 23. |  | Title: The unending frontier: an environmental history of the early modern world Author: Richards, J. F Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | European History | United States History | Environmental Studies | Asian Studies | African Studies Publisher's Description: It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach - and their numbers - as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental hist . . . [more] Matches in book (102): ...Frontier Settlement in Russia... Similar Items...typology of Western imperial expansion ( Russia in the Modern World, 4–9).... ...The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600–1725 (Chicago: University of... |
| 24. |  | Title: Hooliganism: crime, culture, and power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914 Author: Neuberger, Joan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Criminology Publisher's Description: n this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuberger takes us to the streets of St. Petersburg in 1900-1914 to show us how the phenomenon labeled hooliganism came to symbolize all that was wrong with the modern city: increasing hostility between class . . . [more] Matches in book (224): ...Problem of Social Stability in Urban Russia, 1905–1917,” Slavic Review, vol. 23,... Similar Items...trans. A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of Semen Ivanovich... ...Police, and Society in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1866–1878,” The Historian, 40 (... |
| 25. |  | Title: Stalin's forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the making of a Soviet Jewish homeland: an illustrated history, 1928-1996 Author: Weinberg, Robert E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | History | Politics | Judaism Publisher's Description: Robert Weinberg and Bradley Berman's carefully documented and extensively illustrated book explores the Soviet government's failed experiment to create a socialist Jewish homeland. In 1934 an area popularly known as Birobidzhan, a sparsely populated region along the Sino-Soviet border some five thou . . . [more] Matches in book (38): ...General League of Jewish Workingmen of Russia, Poland, and Lithuania (Bund), 4 -... Similar Items...Birobidzhan." In Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union , edited by... ...S. M. Dubnow, History of the Jews in Russia and Poland , 3 vols. (Philadelphia:... |
| 26. |  | Title: Chechnya: life in a war-torn society Author: Tishkov, Valeriĭ Aleksandrovich Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | European History | Sociology | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: This book illuminates one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective - that of a prominent Russian intellectual. Valery Tishkov, a leading ethnographer who has also served in several important political posts, examines the evolution of the war in Chechnya that erupted in 1994, un . . . [more] Matches in book (236): ...me that they had quarreled over oil, that Russia was charging Dudayev too high a... Similar Items...verbal provocation of Yeltsin and Russia on several occasions. In one of his... ...Russian State Duma; leader of the Liberal Russia Party; assassinated in Moscow.... |
| 27. |  | Title: A little corner of freedom: Russian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbachëv Author: Weiner, Douglas R 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies | Environmental Studies | Politics | History | History and Philosophy of Science | Ecology Publisher's Description: While researching Russia's historical efforts to protect nature, Douglas Weiner unearthed unexpected findings: a trail of documents that raised fundamental questions about the Soviet political system. These surprising documents attested to the unlikely survival of a critical-minded, scientist-led mo . . . [more] Matches in book (99): ...RSFSR —the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic; Russia... Similar Items...SR —Socialist Revolutionary (A Non-Marxist Party In Russia, Fl. 1905–1918)... ...as an abettor of the spoliation of Russia. A critic of the behavior of foreign... |
| 28. |  | Title: The lustre of our country: the American experience of religious freedom Author: Noonan, John Thomas 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Law | United States History | Religion | American Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: A New York Times Notable Book This remarkable work offers a fresh approach to a freedom that is often taken for granted in the United States, yet is one of the strongest and proudest elements of American culture: religious freedom. In this compellingly written, distinctively personal book, Judge Joh . . . [more] Matches in book (77): ...Union, 255 Women's Movement in Russia, 158 Wood Jr. , James E. , 416 Woodard,... Similar Items...Japanese. It wasn't like France or Russia, for example. The only issues that got... ...64 dioceses in Russia and 4 missionary dioceses : statistics in S. V.... |
| 29. |  | Title: Stravinsky and the Russian traditions: a biography of the works through Mavra Author: Taruskin, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: This book undoes 50 years of mythmaking about Stravinsky's life in music.During his spectacular career, Igor Stravinsky underplayed his Russian past in favor of a European cosmopolitanism. Richard Taruskin has refused to take the composer at his word. In this long-awaited study, he defines Stravinsk . . . [more] Matches in book (447): ...13— Réclame: (The Loss of Russia, I)... Similar Items...14— Settling Scores: (The Loss of Russia, II)... ...1— Russia and How It Got That Way... |
| 30. |  | Title: The maiden of Ludmir: a Jewish holy woman and her world Author: Deutsch, Nathaniel Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Women's Studies | European History | Judaism | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe - or charismatic leader - in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows t . . . [more] Matches in book (49): ...beginnings of the Jewish enlightenment in Russia before the 1840s, see Michael... Similar Items...The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia, 1825–1855 (Philadelphia: Jewish... ...history of the Jews in Poland and Russia: Collected essays). Jerusalem : Zalman... |
| 31. |  | Title: A coat of many colors: Osip Mandelstam and his mythologies of self-presentation Author: Freidin, Gregory Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Literature | European Literature Matches in book (195): ...Phaedra-Russia and The Night Sun... Similar Items...III— Le Nouvel Hippolyte and Phaedra-Russia: 1915–1916... ...III— Le Nouvel Hippolyte and Phaedra-Russia: 1915–1916... |
| 32. |  | Title: Smallpox: the fight to eradicate a global scourge Author: Koplow, David A 1951- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Public Policy | Disease Publisher's Description: Though smallpox was eradicated from the planet two decades ago, recent terrorist acts have raised the horrific possibility that rogue states, laboratories, or terrorist groups are in possession of secret stockpiles of the virus that causes the disease, and may be preparing to unleash it on target po . . . [more] Matches in book (40): ...or temporary “consultants” from Russia have found their way to numerous such... Similar Items...of the Vector laboratory where Russia's variola samples are held, immediately... ...necessary for the United States, Russia, and the whole world. As noted, the WHO... |
| 33. |  | Title: Decades of crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II Author: Berend, T. Iván (Tibor Iván) 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | European Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Only by understanding Central and Eastern Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century can we hope to make sense of the conflicts and crises that have followed World War II and, after that, the collapse of Soviet-controlled state socialism. Ivan Berend looks closely at t . . . [more] Matches in book (176): ...Russia's Two Revolutions in 1917... Similar Items...in some cases, Hungarian domination. Russia lost Poland and the Baltic states.... ...1988. Music and Music Life in Soviet Russia, 1917-1981 . Bloomington: Indiana... |
| 34. |  | Title: The origins of modernism in Russian architecture Author: Brumfield, William Craft 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The dramatic transformation of Russian architecture from the 1880s to the 1917 revolution reflected the profound changes in Russian society as it entered the modern industrial age. William Craft Brumfield examines the extraordinary diversity of architectural styles in this period and traces the sear . . . [more] Matches in book (166): ...Western Influences on Modernism in Russia and the USSR , 51–70. Washington,... Similar Items...and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia . Chapel Hill, N. C. , 1982. Ruckman, Jo... ...New York, 1977. Shanin, Teodor. Russia, 1905–07: Revolution as a Moment of... |
| 35. |  | Title: The enigma of 1989: the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe Author: Lévesque, Jacques Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The Soviet external empire fell in 1989 virtually without bloodshed. The domino-like collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe was not anticipated by political experts in either the East or the West. Most surprising of all was the Soviet Union's permissive reactions to the secession. For t . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...from a variety of sources in Russia. These include unpublished documents from... Similar Items...cultural contexts as those of Russia and China, for instance. According to Max... ...the future foreign minister of Russia, wrote shortly thereafter: "At the height... |
| 36. |  | Title: Bolshevik festivals, 1917-1920 Author: Von Geldern, James Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | European Literature | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In the early years of the USSR, socialist festivals - events entailing enormous expense and the deployment of thousands of people - were inaugurated by the Bolsheviks. Avant-garde canvases decorated the streets, workers marched, and elaborate mass spectacles were staged. Why, with a civil war raging . . . [more] Matches in book (126): ...criticism, and endured a year in Russia. This book, which would never have been... Similar Items...Goldman, My Disillusionment in Russia, pp. 67-73. 103. Adrian Piotrovskii, "... ...Beatty, Bessie. The Red Heart of Russia . New York: Century, 1918. Bekhterev, V.... |
| 37. |  | Title: Letters and autobiographical writings Author: Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright) 1916-1962 Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Sociology | Literature | United States History | Letters Publisher's Description: One of the leading public intellectuals of twentieth-century America and a pioneering and brilliant social scientist, C. Wright Mills left a legacy of interdisciplinary and hard-hitting work including two books that changed the way many people viewed their lives and the structure of power in the Uni . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...edition. ) [Isaac] Deutscher's letters. Russia After Stalin, isn't it? ; but... Similar Items...he went on a frustrating journey to Russia and Europe, not finding the answers... ...magazine, Amerika, circulated in Russia. "The Sociology of Mass Media and Public... |
| 38. |  | Title: Jewish memories Author: Valensi, Lucette Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Collective memory: a living, breathing gift from the past, less fragmentary than the recollections of any one individual, more personal by far than "history." The authors of Jewish Memories saw in the large numbers of Jews who migrated to France during the twentieth century the chance to retrieve a . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...Jewish Socialist party founded in Russia in 1897, very active in Poland between... Similar Items...In some memories of Poland or Russia, the figure of the Other at first seems... ...attributes it to the intervention of Russia. In 1878, the Russians forced the... |
| 39. |  | Title: Law and disorder on the Narova River: the Kreenholm strike of 1872 Author: Zelnik, Reginald E Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Labor Studies | European History | European Studies Publisher's Description: Reginald Zelnik uses a single episode - a militant strike at the Kreenholm factory, Europe's largest textile plant - to explore the broad historical moment. In examining this crucial event of Russian history he sheds fresh light on local power relations, high politics in St. Petersburg, controversie . . . [more] Matches in book (115): ...and ed. A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of Semën Ivanovich... Similar Items...45 (1954): 148-62. McGrew, Roderick E. Russia and the Cholera, 1823-32. Madison,... ...A. "Workers and Civil Rights in Tsarist Russia, 1899-1917." In Civil Rights in... |
| 40. |  | Title: The life of Judaism Author: Goldberg, Harvey E Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Jewish Studies | Judaism Publisher's Description: Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies. The book's attention to material culture o . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...A. Tranowsky, nineteenth-century Russia, oil on canvas. Courtesy Judah L. Magnes... Similar Items...195 ; and liberalism, 61n3 ; in Russia, 124 –25. See also Nationalism; Religious... ...M . 1916 . The History of the Jews in Russia and Poland from the Earliest Times... |