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Your search for russia in text, title, author, description found 816 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 61 - 80 of 816 book(s) | |
| 61. |  | Title: Flight from Eden: the origins of modern literary criticism and theory  Author: Cassedy, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature Publisher's Description: Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is new and autonomous. He argues that though modern criticism is often forbiddingly scientific and technical, the modern critic remains something of a mystic. Every school of modern critic . . . [more] Matches in book (33): ...Chapter Nine— How Numbers Ran Amok in Russia... Similar Items...Chapter Nine— How Numbers Ran Amok in Russia... ...Orthodox Philosophy of Language in Russia," Studies in Soviet Thought 20 (1979):... |
| 62. |  | Title: Armenia: portraits of survival and hope Author: Miller, Donald E. (Donald Earl) 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Religion | Sociology Publisher's Description: A remarkable view of how geopolitics affects ordinary people, this book documents, in words and pictures, the lives of Armenians in the last two decades. Based on intimate interviews with three hundred Armenians and featuring Jerry Berndt's superb photographs, it brings together firsthand testimony . . . [more] Matches in book (32): ...emigrated to other places? (e.g. , Russia) How hopeful are you about the future?... Similar Items...Armenia needed a strong alliance with Russia, especially given the hostility of... ...however, was a strong alliance with Russia. As the smallest of the former Soviet... |
| 63. |  | Title: Fascist modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 Author: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: European Studies | History | Intellectual History | European History Publisher's Description: Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a ne . . . [more] Matches in book (48): ...1942, report Italian impressions of Russia and German conduct there. Treccani,... Similar Items...Bernagozzi, Giampaolo . La‘campagna'di Russia: Finzionierealtà . In Schermi di... ...Year Plan . In Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–31 , ed. Sheila Fitzpatrick ,... |
| 64. |  | Title: Romain Rolland and the politics of intellectual engagement Author: Fisher, David James Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | European History Matches in book (49): ...Dr. A. H. Fried, Stefan Zweig. Russia: Paul Birukof, Maxim Gorky, Nicolas... Similar Items...R. Margulies, The Pilgrimage to Russia: The Soviet Union and the Treatment of... ...revolutionary adventure soon to begin in Russia. Before returning to Russia in... |
| 65. |  | Title: In a cold crater: cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948 Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | German Studies | European History | Literature | Film | Music Publisher's Description: Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century - Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War - are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Russia... Similar Items...father and other reimmigrants from Russia. 91. Pike, The Politics of Culture,... ...NEP New Economic Policy. The period in Russia following the so-called wartime... |
| 66. |  | Title: Anarchism in the Chinese revolution Author: Dirlik, Arif Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Politics Publisher's Description: Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals wi . . . [more] Matches in book (42): ...Ironically, the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 initially helped stimulate... Similar Items...shiji congshu, 1907. Price, Don. Russia and the Roots of the Chinese Revolution,... ...fangfa” (The failure of Communism in Russia and the way to salvage it), Gongyu (... |
| 67. |  | Title: Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century: a genealogy of modernity Author: Hundert, Gershon David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | European History | Jewish Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world - an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century . . . [more] Matches in book (37): ...Coxe, William. Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark Interspersed with... Similar Items...Dubnow, Simon. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland from the Earliest Times... ...Aviv , 1989 . Klier, John Doyle . Russia Gathers Her Jews: The Origins of the "... |
| 68. |  | Title: Proof through the night: music and the great war Author: Watkins, Glenn 1927- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Musicology | American Music | European History | United States History Publisher's Description: Carols floating across no-man's-land on Christmas Eve 1914; solemn choruses, marches, and popular songs responding to the call of propaganda ministries and war charities; opera, keyboard suites, ragtime, and concertos for the left hand - all provided testimony to the unique power of music to chronic . . . [more] Matches in book (53): ...Hubertus F. Patriotic Culture in Russia During World War I . Ithaca , 1995 .... Similar Items...387 . Newmarch, Rosa . The Outlook in Russia. The Musical Times 56 (1 September... ...286–302 . Taruskin, Richard . Defining Russia Musically . Princeton , 1997 .... |
| 69. |  | Title: Japan's Orient: rendering pasts into history Author: Tanaka, Stefan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan Publisher's Description: Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. He argues that the Japanese attempted to use a variety of pasts - Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese - to construct an identity that . . . [more] Matches in book (35): ...31, 135 -36 Yellow Peril, 182 ; Russia as, 101 Yi dynasty, 237 Yoshida Togo, 159... Similar Items...shore of the Black Sea in southern Russia, was inhospitable, the cold climate... ...affected by both of the basic types was Russia. Because Russians shared a border... |
| 70. |  | Title: Revolutionizing the family: politics, love, and divorce in urban and rural China, 1949-1968 Author: Diamant, Neil Jeffrey 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Politics | China | Sociology | Asian History | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. In this compreh . . . [more] Matches in book (40): ...and Peasant Customary Justice in Russia, 1861–1912,” Journal of Social Histor y... Similar Items...and Peasant Customary Justice in Russia, 1861–1912. Journal of Social Histor y... ...in-Law: Family Relations in Rural Russia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth... |
| 71. |  | Title: Leningrad: shaping a Soviet city Author: Ruble, Blair A 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action. Nowhere has this process of state intervention gone further than in the Soviet Union. This volume explores the ways in which local and regional politic . . . [more] Matches in book (30): ...Parkins, M. F. City Planning in Soviet Russia . Chicago: University of Chicago... Similar Items...Hamilton, The Art and Architecture of Russia (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1975),... ...Provincial Towns of Late Imperial Russia , The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and... |
| 72. |  | Title: Robert Maynard Hutchins: a memoir Author: Mayer, Milton Sanford 1908- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | Print Media | Education | United States History Publisher's Description: At age 28, he was dean of Yale Law School; at 30, president of the University of Chicago. By his mid-thirties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was an eminent figure in the world of educational innovation and liberal politics. And when he was 75, he told a friend, "I should have died at 35."Milton Mayer, Hut . . . [more] Matches in book (37): ...1946, pp. 13-14. 17. Hutchins, "How to Blunder into War with Russia," p. 15.... Similar Items...Atomic Energy: Peace or War with Russia," CBS Radio Address, March 5, 1946. 4.... ...Atomic Energy: Peace or War with Russia," CBS Radio Address, March 5, 1946. 4.... |
| 73. |  | Title: A fable of modern art Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton's masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac's brilliant and little known 'philosophic' story The Unknown Masterpiece in which the concerns of Cézanne, Picasso, and the abstract expressionists are strikingly prefigured. Balzac's fable is discussed not only wit . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...Peter Paul 15 Rubin, William 59 Runge, Philipp Otto 53 Russia 48 -9, 50 -2... Similar Items...on him here during his 1900 tour of Russia. (Photo Novosti Press Agency) Image... ...Andreas-Salomé, who introduced him to Russia in 1899. Image not available 25 ... |
| 74. |  | Title: Pathways of power: building an anthropology of the modern world Author: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology Publisher's Description: This collection of twenty-eight essays by renowned anthropologist Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan. Of the essays, six have never been published and two have not appeared in English until now. Shortly before his death, Wolf prep . . . [more] Matches in book (34): ...Jerome . 1961 . Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth... Similar Items...1899 . The Development of Capitalism in Russia . In Vladimir I. Lenin, Collected... ...History of the National Economy of Russia to the 1917 Revolution . New York :... |
| 75. |  | Title: Constructive dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture Author: Brand, Juliane Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Composers | Intellectual History | Art History Publisher's Description: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is a pivotal figure of musical modernism. The "father of serialism" has influenced nearly every major composer of this century, and the idea of Schoenberg, now wild-eyed radical, now embattled moralist, now lonely prophet, is woven into the mythos of modern art. What is . . . [more] Matches in book (25): ...most recently, Kandinsky and Old Russia: The Artist as Ethnographer and Shaman.... Similar Items...Ganfliege, see Weiss, Kandinsky and Old Russia (1995), 183. For a reproduction... ...as well as in Kandinsky and Old Russia (1995), 193-195, 200-204. The Green Bond... |
| 76. |  | Title: Jewish icons: art and society in modern Europe Author: Cohen, Richard I Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Jewish Studies | European Studies | European History Publisher's Description: With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, c . . . [more] Matches in book (30): ...The Awakening of Jewish National Art in Russia." Jewish Art 16/17 (1990/1): 98–... Similar Items...situation. Jewish emigration from Russia soared to over 100,000 in 1906,... ...the political future of the Jews in Russia became all the more bleak. During... |
| 77. |  | Title: Art nouveau in fin-de-siècle France: politics, psychology, and style Author: Silverman, Debora Leah Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | Art History | French Studies | European History | Intellectual History Matches in book (39): ...legacy of the two Louis with whom Russia had cooperated in the seventeenth and... Similar Items...French delegates were sent to Russia, Portugal, Austria, England, Belgium,... ...private collections in France and Russia that had hitherto been considered lost.... |
| 78. |  | Title: Founder of Hasidism: a quest for the historical Baʾal Shem Tov Author: Rosman, Murray Jay Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Judaism Publisher's Description: This book goes farther than any previous work in uncovering the historical Israel ben Eliezer - known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht - the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic who profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism. As the progenitor of Hasidism, the Ba'al Shem Tov is one of t . . . [more] Matches in book (26): ...1991. ———. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland . 3 vols. Philadelphia,... Similar Items...The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia , 1825–1855. Philadelphia, 1983.... ...S. M. Dubnow, History of the Jews in Russia and Poland , vol. 1 (Philadelphia,... |
| 79. |  | Title: Building the fourth estate: democratization and the rise of a free press in Mexico Author: Lawson, Chappell H 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Latin American Studies | Media Studies Publisher's Description: Based on an in-depth examination of Mexico's print and broadcast media over the last twenty-five years, this book is the most richly detailed account available of the role of the media in democratization, demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between changes in the press and changes in the polit . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...Progress, ‘ special report by the U.S. -Russia Business Council, Washington,... Similar Items...McNair, ‘The Media in Post-Soviet Russia—An Overview, ‘ European Journal of... ...Progress , special report by the U.S. -Russia Business Council, Washington,... |
| 80. |  | Title: Lives at risk: public health in nineteenth-century Egypt Author: Kuhnke, LaVerne Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and an international Quarantine Board. The ways in which these institutions succeeded and failed will gr . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...the zemstvo medical system in Tsarist Russia, Egypt's small network of urban and... Similar Items...the Delivery of Health Care in Rural Russia: The Moscow Zemstvo, 1864-1878,"... ...education was not solved in continue Russia either until well after the... |