Adventures In Russian Historical Research

Author : Samuel H. Baron,Cathy Frierson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317477730

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Adventures in Russian Historical Research by Samuel H. Baron,Cathy Frierson Pdf

American historians of Russia have always been an intrepid lot. Their research trips were spent not in Cambridge or Paris, Rome or Berlin, but in Soviet dormitories with official monitors. They were seeking access to a historical record that was purposefully shrouded in secrecy, boxed up and locked away in closed archives. Their efforts, indeed their curiosity itself, sometimes raised suspicion at home as well as in a Soviet Union that did not want to be known even while it felt misunderstood. This lively volume brings together the reflections of twenty leading specialists on Russian history representing four generations. They relate their experiences as historians and researchers in Russia from the first academic exchanges in the 1950s through the Cold War years, detente, glasnost, and the first post-Soviet decade. Their often moving, acutely observed stories of Russian academic life record dramatic change both in the historical profession and in the society that they have devoted their careers to understanding.

Author : Samuel H. Baron,Cathy Frierson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317477747

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Adventures in Russian Historical Research: Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present by Samuel H. Baron,Cathy Frierson Pdf

American historians of Russia have always been an intrepid lot. Their research trips were spent not in Cambridge or Paris, Rome or Berlin, but in Soviet dormitories with official monitors. They were seeking access to a historical record that was purposefully shrouded in secrecy, boxed up and locked away in closed archives. Their efforts, indeed their curiosity itself, sometimes raised suspicion at home as well as in a Soviet Union that did not want to be known even while it felt misunderstood. This lively volume brings together the reflections of twenty leading specialists on Russian history representing four generations. They relate their experiences as historians and researchers in Russia from the first academic exchanges in the 1950s through the Cold War years, detente, glasnost, and the first post-Soviet decade. Their often moving, acutely observed stories of Russian academic life record dramatic change both in the historical profession and in the society that they have devoted their careers to understanding.

Author : Charles Morley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Russia
ISBN : OCLC:678890449

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Guide to Research in Russian History by Charles Morley Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0765633620

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Adventures in Russ Hist Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Joseph Kerner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UOM:39015021317584

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The Russian Adventure by Robert Joseph Kerner Pdf

Author : Arup Banerji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351381987

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Writing History in the Soviet Union by Arup Banerji Pdf

The history of the Soviet Union has been charted in several studies over the decades. These depictions while combining accuracy, elegance, readability and imaginativeness, have failed to draw attention to the political and academic environment within which these histories were composed. Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the Past Work is aimed at understanding this environment. The book seeks to identify the significant hallmarks of the production of Soviet history by Soviet as well as Western historians. It traces how the Russian Revolution of 1917 triggered a shift in official policy towards historians and the publication of history textbooks for schools. In 1985, the Soviet past was again summoned for polemical revision as part and parcel of an attitude of openness (glasnost') and in this, literary figures joined their energies to those of historians. The Communist regime sought to equate the history of the country with that of the Communist Party itself in 1938 and 1962 and this imposed a blanket of conformity on history writing in the Soviet Union. The book also surveys the rich abundance of writing the Russian Revolution generated as well as the divergent approaches to the history of the period. The conditions for research in Soviet archives are described as an aspect of official monitoring of history writing. Another instance of this is the manner by which history textbooks have, through the years, been withdrawn from schools and others officially nursed into circulation. This intervention, occasioned in the present circumstance by statements by President Putin himself, in the manner in which history is taught in Russian schools, continues to this day. In other words, over the years, the regime has always worked to make the past work. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka

Author : Walter G. Moss
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857287397

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A History Of Russia Volume 2 by Walter G. Moss Pdf

Moss has significantly revised his text and bibliography in this second edition to reflect new research findings and controversies on numerous subjects. He has also brought the history up to date by revising the post-Soviet material, which now covers events from the end of 1991 up to the present day. This new edition retains the features of the successful first edition that have made it a popular choice in universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada and around the world.

Author : Yücel Güçlü
Publisher : UPA
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761865674

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Historical Archives and the Historians' Commission to Investigate the Armenian Events of 1915 by Yücel Güçlü Pdf

This book demonstrates the vital importance of Ottoman and other relevant archives in Turkey for the study of the Armenian question. By turning a modern eye on historical events, Güçlü gives necessary attention to discovering the precise chronology, meaning, and development of the continuing negotiations between Turkey and Armenia.

Author : Volodymyr V. Kravchenko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793609083

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Ukrainian Historical Writing in North America during the Cold War by Volodymyr V. Kravchenko Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive survey of Ukrainian historical writing in North America during the Cold War. The author describes the development of Ukrainian historical studies in Canada and the United States as an open, sometimes difficult dialogue between the Ukrainian ethnic and academic communities on the one hand and between Ukrainian scholars and Western academic mainstream on the other. He focuses on the institutional and the intellectual issues including various interpretations of major topics related to the Ukrainian national grand narrative, considering them in the evolving academic and political contexts of Slavic, East European, and Soviet studies.

Author : Sergei I. Zhuk
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498551250

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Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR by Sergei I. Zhuk Pdf

This study is an intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930–2008), the prominent Soviet historian who was a pioneering scholar of US history and US–Russian relations. Alongside the personal history of Bolkhovitinov, this study also examines the broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Using archival documents, numerous studies by Russian and Ukrainian Americanists, various periodicals, personal correspondence, diaries, and more than one hundred interviews, it demonstrates how concepts, genealogies, and images of modernity shaped a national self-perception of the intellectual elites in both nations during the Cold War.

Author : David C. Engerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0199717230

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Know Your Enemy by David C. Engerman Pdf

As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies to fill in this dangerous gap in American knowledge. This group brought together some of the nation's best minds from the left, right, and center, colorful and controversial individuals ranging from George Kennan to Margaret Mead to Zbigniew Brzezinski, not to mention historians Sheila Fitzpatrick and Richard Pipes. Together they created the knowledge that helped fight the Cold War and define Cold War thought. Soviet Studies became a vibrant intellectual enterprise, studying not just the Soviet threat, but Soviet society and culture at a time when many said that these were contradictions in terms, as well as Russian history and literature. And this broad network, Engerman argues, forever changed the relationship between the government and academe, connecting the Pentagon with the ivory tower in ways that still matter today.

Author : David L. Ransel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : 9780253352361

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A Russian Merchant's Tale by David L. Ransel Pdf

Based on the rare diary of an 18th-century Russian provincial merchant, A Russian Merchant's Tale presents a revealing portrait of Russia's little-known commercial class. By recording his daily contacts with a wide array of individuals from lords to laborers for more than 40 years, Ivan Alekseevich Tolchënov opened a window onto the education, work, birth, death, marriage, business, civic, holiday, and religious practices of a social group about which little has been known. Using the tools of microhistory to interpret the diary, David L. Ransel vividly brings to life Tolchënov's self-construction, his relations with family and society, and his entire world of aspirations, achievements, and failures. Challenging prevailing stereotypes of Russian merchants as tradition-bound and narrow-minded, A Russian Merchant's Tale offers important new insights into the social history of imperial Russia.

Author : Michael Hughes
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783740123

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Beyond Holy Russia by Michael Hughes Pdf

This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the United States. In later years he travelled widely across Europe and North America, meeting some of the best known writers of the twentieth century, including H.G.Wells and Ernest Hemingway. Graham also wrote numerous novels and biographies that won him a wide readership on both sides of the Atlantic. This book traces Graham’s career as a world traveller, and provides a rich portrait of English, Russian and American literary life in the first half of the twentieth century. It also examines how many aspects of his life and writing coincide with contemporary concerns, including the development of New Age spirituality and the rise of environmental awareness. Beyond Holy Russia is based on extensive research in archives of private papers in Britain and the USA and on the many works of Graham himself. The author describes with admirable tact and clarity Graham’s heterodox and convoluted spiritual quest. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who was for many years a significant literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Jeremy D. Popkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226675435

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History, Historians, and Autobiography by Jeremy D. Popkin Pdf

Though history and autobiography both claim to tell true stories about the past, historians have traditionally rejected first-person accounts as subjective and therefore unreliable. What then, asks Jeremy D. Popkin in History, Historians, and Autobiography, are we to make of the ever-increasing number of professional historians who are publishing stories of their own lives? And how is this recent development changing the nature of history-writing, the historical profession, and the genre of autobiography? Drawing on the theoretical work of contemporary critics of autobiography and the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, Popkin reads the autobiographical classics of Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams and the memoirs of contemporary historians such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Peter Gay, Jill Ker Conway, and many others, he reveals the contributions historians' life stories make to our understanding of the human experience. Historians' autobiographies, he shows, reveal how scholars arrive at their vocations, the difficulties of writing about modern professional life, and the ways in which personal stories can add to our understanding of historical events such as war, political movements, and the traumas of the Holocaust. An engrossing overview of the way historians view themselves and their profession, this work will be of interest to readers concerned with the ways in which we understand the past, as well as anyone interested in the art of life-writing.

Author : Frederick Whymper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Alaska
ISBN : PSU:000013910952

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Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska by Frederick Whymper Pdf