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Your search for russia in text, title, author, description found 816 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 81 - 100 of 816 book(s) | |
| 81. |  | Title: Land, labor and the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1882-1914 Author: Shafir, Gershon Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but t . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...Union of Lithuania, Poland, and Russia): Jewish socialist party, founded in... Similar Items...173 , 191 in Palestine, 165 , 173 in Russia, 175 , 181 see also artel, communes... ...Zionist movement. Founded in 1882 in Russia and later established chapters in... |
| 82. |  | Title: Postmodernism and the postsocialist condition: politicized art under late socialism Author: Erjavec, Aleš Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Intellectual History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without precedent. Artists, seeing it all firsthand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...page 58) 1. Komar and Melamid, Russia's Most Wanted, 1994, oil on canvas, 40 ×... Similar Items...the countries under discussion—Russia, China, the former Soviet bloc countries... ...it of seminal importance. In Europe, Russia included, the national principle is... |
| 83. |  | Title: New world disorder: the Leninist extinction Author: Jowitt, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Communism, or as Ken Jowitt prefers, Leninism, has attracted, repelled, mystified, and terrified millions for nearly a century. In his brilliant, timely, and controversial study, New World Disorder , Jowitt identifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political co . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...practices Rumyanstev, Aleksey, 230 Russia, 38 , 292 , 323 See also Soviet Union... Similar Items...Schurmann, "Politics and Economics in Russia and China," in Donald W. Treadgold,... ...Kent Geiger, The Family in Soviet Russia (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University... |
| 84. |  | Title: Resistance and revolution in China: the Communists and the second united front  Author: Kataoka, Tetsuya Published: University of California Press, 1974 Subjects: Asian Studies | China Matches in book (25): ...pointed for the CCP a third path between Republican China and Soviet Russia.... Similar Items...capitalist traders that emerged in Soviet Russia in 1922–1928 when the stringent... ...Ming hsüan-chi , I, 134, 139. Soviet Russia in China (New York: Farrar Strauss... |
| 85. |  | Title: Take my word: autobiographical innovations of ethnic American working women Author: Goldman, Anne E 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Ethnic Studies | Women's Studies | United States History | American Studies Publisher's Description: In an innovative critique of traditional approaches to autobiography, Anne E. Goldman convincingly demonstrates that ethnic women can and do speak for themselves, even in the most unlikely contexts. Citing a wide variety of nontraditional texts - including the cookbooks of Nuevo Mexicanas, African A . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...of the Jewish working class, both in Russia and in America the twin causes of... Similar Items...34. Tobias, The Jewish Bund in Russia, 245. 35. Rischin, The Promised City, 166,... ...Tobias, Henry J. The Jewish Bund in Russia: From Its Origins to 1905 . Stanford:... |
| 86. |  | Title: Revolution and rebellion in the early modern world Author: Goldstone, Jack A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Political Theory | European History | Social Theory Publisher's Description: What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhel . . . [more] Matches in book (36): ...in Seventeenth Century France, Russia, and China . Translated by B. Pearce. New... Similar Items...Problem of Bureaucracy and Society in Russia, 1801-1917. Social Science History... ...uprisings, rural Rural villages, xxiii Russia: modern, 482 n; Pugachev's revolt,... |
| 87. |  | Title: Splendid monarchy: power and pageantry in modern Japan Author: Fujitani, Takashi Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | Japan Publisher's Description: Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultur . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...problem of two political centers in Russia, especially after the assassination... Similar Items...the Political Center in Tsarist Russia, 1881-1914." In Rites of Power , edited... ...progresses Ruiz, Teofilo F. , 96 Russia, 55 Russo-Japanese War, 15 , 121 , 126 -... |
| 88. |  | Title: The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000 Author: Endelman, Todd M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies | European History | Ethnic Studies | Immigration Publisher's Description: In Todd Endelman's spare and elegant narrative, the history of British Jewry in the modern period is characterized by a curious mixture of prominence and inconspicuousness. British Jews have been central to the unfolding of key political events of the modern period, especially the establishment of t . . . [more] Matches in book (25): ...and Chimen Abramsky, "The Visits to Russia," in The Century of Moses Montefiore,... Similar Items...and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia (Berkeley, Calif. , 1964), chaps. 2... ...revolutions, like those in France and Russia, that radically and rapidly... |
| 89. |  | Title: Radio goes to war: the cultural politics of propaganda during World War II Author: Horten, Gerd 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | United States History | Media Studies | American Studies | Television and Radio Publisher's Description: Radio Goes to War is the first comprehensive and in-depth look at the role of domestic radio in the United States during the Second World War. As this study convincingly demonstrates, radio broadcasting played a crucial role both in government propaganda and within the context of the broader cultura . . . [more] Matches in book (20): ...January 28, 1942) Equally persistent were the isolationists' attacks on Russia.... Similar Items...Had not Russia abandoned the Allied coalition in 1917? What would prevent Stalin... ...Did the United States have to fight Russia next, after Germany and Japan were... |
| 90. |  | Title: Adventures of a mathematician Author: Ulam, Stanislaw M Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | Mathematics | United States History Publisher's Description: The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1944 on, Ulam helped to precipitate some . . . [more] Matches in book (21): ...the catastrophes to come. He saw Russia as the chief antagonist to Nazi Germany.... Similar Items...fighting against France, England, Russia, and Italy. Most of the Polish-speaking... ...Ulam, would you like to come to Russia? I could arrange everything and would... |
| 91. |  | Title: Rural China takes off: institutional foundations of economic reform Author: Oi, Jean Chun Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | China | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization . . . [more] Matches in book (20): ...labor; management; private ownership; profits Russia, 2 , 57 , 192 , 198 , 201 ;... Similar Items...and Sally Wallace. "Revenue Sharing in Russia." Paper presented at the Taxation,... ...and Robert Vishny. Privatizing Russia. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1995.... |
| 92. |  | Title: Antonia Canova and the politics of patronage in revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe Author: Johns, Christopher M. S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Art History | European Studies | European History Publisher's Description: The Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) was Europe's most celebrated artist from the end of the ancien régime to the early years of the Restoration, an era when the traditional relationship between patrons and artists changed drastically. Christopher M. S. Johns's refreshingly original stud . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...been offers for it from Britain and Russia. The artist did not live long enough... Similar Items...had suffered crippling setbacks in Russia and Germany. Canova certainly could... ...from Paris in 1815. Catherine II of Russia, her chagrin at the artist's refusal... |
| 93. |  | Title: "Ronald Reagan," the movie: and other episodes in political demonology Author: Rogin, Michael Paul Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States History Publisher's Description: The fear of the subversive has governed American politics, from the racial conflicts of the early republic to the Hollywood anti-Communism of Ronald Reagan. Political monsters - the Indian cannibal, the black rapist, the demon rum, the bomb-throwing anarchist, the many-tentacled Communist conspiracy . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...workability of an American program. And Russia is accused of developing a first-... Similar Items...of life. He said it was this that Red Russia cannot match, so it tried to take... ...of Communism. The author visited Russia with his half brother in the 1930s. He... |
| 94. |  | Title: The Jews of modern France Author: Hyman, Paula 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | French Studies | European Studies | History | European History | Judaism | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The Jews of Modern France explores the endlessly complex encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to the eve of the twenty-first century. In the late eighteenth century, some forty thousand Jews lived in scattered communities on the peripheries of the French state, not consid . . . [more] Matches in book (19): ...93 , 97 , 108 Rue Copernic, synagogue of, 211 Russia, 89 ; Jews of, 117 -118... Similar Items...Impact of Industrialization in Tsarist Russia on the Socioeconomic Conditions of... ...the Jewish Workers' Movement in Tsarist Russia (Cambridge: Cambridge University... |
| 95. |  | Title: Khubilai Khan: his life and times Author: Rossabi, Morris Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | Asian History | China | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Living from 1215 to 1294 Khubilai Khan is one of history's most renowned figures. Here for the first time is an English-language biography of the man. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages as he focuses on the life and times of the great . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...82 , 108 -09, 114 , 182 , 193 , 200 -201, 225 , 229 Riazan, 10 Russia, 10 , 109... Similar Items...Co. , 1964. Halperin, Charles. "Russia in the Mongol Empire in Historical... ...1938): 337-60. ———. The Mongols and Russia . New Haven: Yale University Press,... |
| 96. |  | Title: Mesozoic birds: above the heads of dinosaurs Author: Chiappe, Luis M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Ornithology | Paleontology | Evolution Publisher's Description: Our knowledge of the origin and early evolution of birds has exploded in the past ten to fifteen years. In the 1990s alone, scientists became aware of approximately three times more species of early birds than were previously known, marking the first 85 million years of avian development as a period . . . [more] Matches in book (20): ...Bajsa, Chita Oblast, Transbaikalia, Russia... Similar Items...Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; PIN, Paleontological Institute of Russia, Academy of... ...Sciences, Moscow, Russia.... |
| 97. |  | Title: Reflections on the way to the gallows: rebel women in prewar Japan Author: Hane, Mikiso Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Japan | Women's Studies | Asian History Publisher's Description: In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current . . . [more] Matches in book (20): ...espionage activities on behalf of Soviet Russia. He had the cooperation of Ozaki... Similar Items...Theodore Roosevelt invited Japan and Russia to send delegates to Portsmouth, New... ...ends. The wars with China and Russia, and the rapid industrial expansion at the... |
| 98. |  | Title: From fascism to libertarian communism: Georges Valois against the Third Republic Author: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Georges Valois is the enigma who stands at the center of French fascism. Writer, publisher, economic and political organizer, Valois went from adolescent anarchism to fascism and finally to libertarian socialism. His career has mystified scholars, as it did his contemporaries. From Fascism to Libert . . . [more] Matches in book (25): ...conflicting attitudes to Stalin's Russia, the chief power supporting vigorous... Similar Items...Rome, 142 , 254 Ruhr, 57 , 60 -61 Russia, 5 -7, 9 -11, 26 , 41 , 140 -41, 197 ,... ...Singapore, Indochina, Switzerland, and Russia. Shortly before his seventeenth... |
| 99. |  | Title: The conquest of Ainu lands: ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590-1800 Author: Walker, Brett L 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Japan | Ethnic Studies | Ecology Publisher's Description: This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu - the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago - at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. I . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...RUSSIA AND THE QUESTION OF BOUNDARIES... Similar Items...Balance 128 6. The Kuril Trade: Russia and the Question of Boundaries 155 7.... ...Slezkine, Yuri . Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North.... |
| 100. |  | Title: A translucent mirror: history and identity in Qing imperial ideology Author: Crossley, Pamela Kyle Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian History Publisher's Description: In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Drawi . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...16 (1992): 117-27. Mancall, Mark. Russia and China: Their Diplomatic Relations... Similar Items...the Inner Asian Frontiers of China and Russia. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950. Lee,... ...Legalist, 66 n21. See also universalism Russia, 50 . See also Romanov empire... |