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Your search for russia in text, title, author, description found 816 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 41 - 60 of 816 book(s) | |
| 41. |  | Title: Magnetic mountain: Stalinism as a civilization Author: Kotkin, Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | European History Publisher's Description: This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly ag . . . [more] Matches in book (173): ...the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel , enlarged edition... Similar Items...planning; that was socialism. That was the way to bring modernity to Russia—a... ...new Russia, a country of metal. Mobilization, the essential method of the... |
| 42. |  | Title: Same bed, different dreams: managing U.S.-China relations, 1989-2000 Author: Lampton, David M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Asian History | China | United States History Publisher's Description: The title of this unique insider's look at a crucial decade of Sino-American interchange derives from a Chinese expression that describes a relationship of two people whose lives are intimately intertwined but who do not fundamentally communicate with each other. David M. Lampton, former president o . . . [more] Matches in book (144): ...positive or negative developments in Russia could change such an assessment... Similar Items...at the old Soviet borders. ” 119 Conversely, Russia will not be forever weak.... ...international relationships—that is, with Russia (the former Soviet Union) and... |
| 43. |  | Title: Letters from prison and other essays Author: Michnik, Adam Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Politics | European History Matches in book (111): ...of, 36 ; in nineteenth-century Russia, 258 , 259 ; on "organic work" approach,... Similar Items...not exist next to a self-contained Russia. Compromises were impossible: one of... ...Vassili, 9 Rudnicki, Adolf, 178 Russia, xii. See also Soviet Union Russian Black... |
| 44. |  | Title: Pivot of the universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 Author: Amanat, Abbas Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had occupied the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful, complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who displayed remarkable resilience in the face of dilemmas and . . . [more] Matches in book (130): ...Alliance with Russia... Similar Items...Udovitch. Princeton, 1981. Atkin, M. Russia and Iran, 1780–1828 . Minneapolis,... ...See also H. Rawlinson, England and Russia in the East (London, 1875). 33. NTQ ,... |
| 45. |  | Title: Tortured confessions: prisons and public recantations in modern Iran  Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Politics | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and of the widespread utilization of torture and pu . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...71 Cultural Revolution; in Stalinist Russia and Eastern Europe, first during the... Similar Items...none have outdone Iran, Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, and early modern Europe... ...Britain; for yet others, communist Russia. In Khomeini's terminology, America is... |
| 46. |  | Title: Language in time of revolution Author: Harshav, Benjamin 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies | History | Literature Matches in book (93): ...11 , 13 , 19 , 58 , 59 , 64 , 197 ; in Russia 1881-1882, xi , 8 , 11 , 47 , 51 ,... Similar Items...110 , 133 , 134 , 155 , 184 n; in Russia 1919, 146 , 147 , 179 Post-Modernism,... ...1881– 1903) came after the pogroms in Russia in 1881–82; it consisted mainly of... |
| 47. |  | Title: Modernizing China's military: progress, problems, and prospects Author: Shambaugh, David L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Politics | International Relations | China Publisher's Description: David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade's research, Modernizing China's Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when intern . . . [more] Matches in book (86): ...are steadily widening. Transfers from Russia are meeting certain “niche” needs... Similar Items...5 (CSS-4) ICBMs, with range to cover Russia, Europe and North America. Huaihua,... ...research offices (the Americas; Europe, Russia/Ukraine, Central Asian republics;... |
| 48. |  | Title: Season of high adventure: Edgar Snow in China Author: Thomas, S. Bernard 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | China | Autobiographies and Biographies | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen more years. The idealistic young Midwesterner became a journalist and ultimately developed close friendships wi . . . [more] Matches in book (87): ...97, 302 , 303 -10; CCP independence from Russia, 334 ; earnings, 310 , 311 -12;... Similar Items...a few more wars, and near wars (in Russia during Stalingrad was a big point),... ...it is a 'sphere of influence' of either Russia, Japan, France or Great Britain.... |
| 49. |  | Title: American scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the making of the Beat Generation Author: Raskin, Jonah 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | Literature | Sociology | Poetry Publisher's Description: Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in w . . . [more] Matches in book (40): ...Just like Russia... Similar Items...5. Just like Russia... ...4 Juvenescent Savagery 65 5 Just like Russia 81 6 Ladies, We Are Going through... |
| 50. |  | Title: Russian opera and the symbolist movement Author: Morrison, Simon Alexander 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Opera | Musicology | Composers | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Literature Publisher's Description: An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth ce . . . [more] Matches in book (71): ...23),” quoted in Bartlett, Wagner and Russia , 148. Pyman, A History of Russian... Similar Items...268–69. Bartlett, Wagner and Russia , 200. See ibid. , 126–30. Belïy, “O... ...world. ” Rosamund Bartlett, Wagner and Russia (Cambridge: Cambridge University... |
| 51. |  | Title: The Gorbachev phenomenon: a historical interpretation Author: Lewin, Moshe 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Sociology | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The "Gorbachev phenomenon" is seen as the product of complex developments during the last seventy years - developments that changed the Soviet Union from a primarily agrarian society into an urban, industrial one. Here, for the first time, a noted authority on Soviet society identifies the crucial h . . . [more] Matches in book (48): ...Richard F. Roland. "Urbanization in Russia and the USSR: 1917-1970." In The City... Similar Items...Martin. The Waking Giant: Gorbachev's Russia . New York, 1986. 109. Weber, Max.... ...on the state bureaucracy, 109 Tsarist Russia, 5 , 181 ; agrarian development in,... |
| 52. |  | Title: The origins of backwardness in Eastern Europe: economics and politics from the Middle Ages until the early twentieth century Author: Chirot, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world, and useful to those who want to understand contemporary Eastern Europe's past. Like the rest . . . [more] Matches in book (69): ...146 , 239 Rusinski, Wladyslaw, 97 Russia, 6 , 8 , 12 , 56 , 59 -61, 63 -64, 69 ,... Similar Items...there were twelve bad harvests in Russia between 1891 and 1914) marked the... ...peasant revolts of 1905 to 1907 in Russia and Romania washed away the roadblocks... |
| 53. |  | Title: The Gaon of Vilna: the man and his image Author: Etkes, I Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Medieval History Publisher's Description: A legendary figure in his own lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) was known as the "Gaon of Vilna." He was the acknowledged master of Talmudic studies in the vibrant intellectual center of Vilna, revered throughout Eastern Europe for his learning and his ability to traverse with eas . . . [more] Matches in book (51): ...and cannot be cited as evidence that he had not launched the movement in Russia.... Similar Items...orthodoxy in nineteenth- century Russia. As we have shown, the Gaon's opinions... ...Vilna , 1881 . Fishman, D. E. Russia's First Modern Jews: The Jews of Shklov .... |
| 54. |  | Title: Shanghai on the Metro: spies, intrigue, and the French between the wars Author: Miller, Michael Barry 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies Publisher's Description: Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men - they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literat . . . [more] Matches in book (76): ...J. Santo, 1912. Sayler, Oliver. Russia, White or Red . Boston: Little Brown,... Similar Items...Gallimard, 1937. Dingle, Reginald. Russia's Work in France . London: Robert... ...Sergey Petrovich. The Red Terror in Russia . London: J. M. Dent, 1926. Melka,... |
| 55. |  | Title: The abacus and the sword: the Japanese penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 Author: Duus, Peter 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | Asian Studies | Japan | East Asia Other Publisher's Description: What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective to Meiji expansionism in this pathbreaking study of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. He shows how Japan's . . . [more] Matches in book (79): ...1884." Studies on Asia (1965). ———. "Russia's Policy Toward Korea, 1854-1904: A... Similar Items...ed. Korea and Manchuria Between Russia and Japan, 1895-1904: The Observations of... ...and a united Italy, which carried Russia within sight of Constantinople, and... |
| 56. |  | Title: Ana Pauker: the rise and fall of a Jewish Communist Author: Levy, Robert 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Jewish Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Politics | European History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In her own day, Ana Pauker was named "The Most Powerful Woman in the World" by Time magazine. Today, when she is remembered at all, she is thought of as the puppet of Soviet communism in Romania, blindly enforcing the most brutal and repressive Stalinist regime. Robert Levy's new biography changes t . . . [more] Matches in book (53): ...Most Recent History (RTsKhIDNI), Moscow, Russia Fond 495, Opis 255 (Ana Pauker's... Similar Items...ed. , Fifty Years of Communism in Russia. Philadelphia, 1968 . Fischer, Ernst .... ...Sheila , ed. Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–1931 . Bloomington , Ind . ,... |
| 57. |  | Title: American empire: Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization Author: Smith, Neil Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Geography | American Studies | Anthropology | United States History | International Relations Publisher's Description: An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geogra . . . [more] Matches in book (76): ...But see also John M. Thompson, Russia, Bolshevism, and the Versailles Peace (... Similar Items...the borderlands between Germany and Russia that drew Lippmann's cynicism—the “... ...CU MC, Box 1. John M. Thompson, Russia, Bolshevism, and the Versailles Peace (... |
| 58. |  | Title: Afghanistan: the Soviet invasion and the Afghan response, 1979-1982 Author: Kakar, M. Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 a . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...Russia at a Glance... Similar Items...Adkin, Bear Trap , 54. M. Poltoranin, Russia’s minister of information, quoted... ...Rights,” 7. Carmichael, History of Russia; Lourie, Predicting Russia’s Future.... |
| 59. |  | Title: The wood duck and the mandarin: the northern wood ducks Author: Shurtleff, Lawton L Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Zoology | Environmental Studies | Biology Publisher's Description: This is a story of conservation told through the natural histories of two of the world's most fascinating birds, the Wood Duck of North America and the Mandarin of Asia. The only two species in their genus ( Aix ), these Northern Wood Ducks are native to different continents but have long been kept . . . [more] Matches in book (39): ...11 , 56 –58, 71 –72 Reserves, nature. See Nature reserves Russia. See Ussuriland... Similar Items...countries the bird inhabits, mainly Russia, China, and Japan. For a species so... ...One hundred fifty reserves throughout Russia, encompassing almost sixty thousand... |
| 60. |  | Title: Letters from freedom: post-cold war realities and perspectives Author: Michnik, Adam Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Social and Political Thought | European History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: A hero to many, Polish writer Adam Michnik ranks among today's most fearless and persuasive public figures. His imprisonment by Poland's military regime in the 1980s did nothing to quench his outpouring of writings, many of which were published in English as Letters from Prison . Beginning where tha . . . [more] Matches in book (48): ...14— What Next in Russia?... Similar Items...to the most privileged class in Russia. And yet he rejected it all to become the... ...human rights . . . 'the conscience of Russia. '" What, Michnik asks, "gave those... |