Between Tsar And People

Author : Edith W. Clowes,Samuel D. Kassow,James L. West
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691225265

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Between Tsar and People by Edith W. Clowes,Samuel D. Kassow,James L. West Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the social and cultural life of late imperial Russia describes the struggle of new elites to take up a "middle position" in society--between tsar and people. During this period autonomous social and cultural institutions, pluralistic political life, and a dynamic economy all seemed to be emerging: Russia was experiencing a sense of social possibility akin to that which Gorbachev wishes to reanimate in the Soviet Union. But then, as now, diversity had as its price the potential for political disorder and social dissolution. Analyzing the attempt of educated Russians to forge new identities, this book reveals the social, cultural, and regional fragmentation of the times. The contributors are Harley Balzer, John E. Bowlt, Joseph Bradley, William C. Brumfield, Edith W. Clowes, James M. Curtis, Ben Eklof, Gregory L. Freeze, Abbott Gleason, Samuel D. Kassow, Mary Louise Loe, Louise McReynolds, Sidney Monas, John O. Norman, Daniel T. Orlovsky, Thomas C. Owen, Alfred Rieber, Bernice G. Rosenthal, Christine Ruane, Charles E. Timberlake, William Wagner, and James L. West. Samuel D. Kassow has written a conclusion to the volume.

Author : Christopher Read
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9781857283587

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From Tsar to Soviets by Christopher Read Pdf

By examining the 1917 revolution in the light of the experiences of the ordinary population rather than the activities of central parties and politicians, this book presents a challenging and fresh interpretation.

Author : Daniel B. Rowland
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501752100

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God, Tsar, and People by Daniel B. Rowland Pdf

God, Tsar, and People brings together in one volume essays written over a period of fifty years, using a wide variety of evidence—texts, icons, architecture, and ritual—to reveal how early modern Russians (1450–1700) imagined their rapidly changing political world. This volume presents a more nuanced picture of Russian political thought during the two centuries before Peter the Great came to power than is typically available. The state was expanding at a dizzying rate, and atop Russia's traditional political structure sat a ruler who supposedly reflected God's will. The problem facing Russians was that actual rulers seldom—or never—exhibited the required perfection. Daniel Rowland argues that this contradictory set of ideas was far less autocratic in both theory and practice than modern stereotypes would have us believe. In comparing and contrasting Russian history with that of Western European states, Rowland is also questioning the notion that Russia has always been, and always viewed itself as, an authoritarian country. God, Tsar, and People explores how the Russian state in this period kept its vast lands and diverse subjects united in a common view of a Christian polity, defending its long frontier against powerful enemies from the East and from the West.

Author : Michael Cherniavsky
Publisher : New Haven, Yale U.P
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : National characteristics, Russian
ISBN : UOM:39015004070374

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Tsar and People by Michael Cherniavsky Pdf

The author traces the ruler cult from its tenth-century origins to its demise late in the nineteenth century, pointing out that the princes of Russian history are seen as saints both through their actions and through their function as mediator between God and people.

Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448112647

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A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes Pdf

Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People’s Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. ‘A modern masterpiece’ Andrew Marr ‘The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since Doctor Zhivago’ Independent Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship. Drawing on vast original research, Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it, while providing the clearest and most cogent account of how and why it unfolded. Illustrated with over 100 photographs and now including a new introduction that reflects on the revolution’s centennial legacy, A People’s Tragedy is a masterful and definitive record of one of the most important events in modern history.

Author : Daniel Bruce Rowland
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Moscow (Russia)
ISBN : 150175209X

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God, Tsar, and People by Daniel Bruce Rowland Pdf

"A collection of essays, written over a period of fifty years, that represent a sustained effort to discover how early modern Russians (from the period roughly from 1450 to 1700) imagined their government and rulers"--

Author : Outlet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-27
Category : Russia
ISBN : 0517391368

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Before the Revolution by Outlet Pdf

Author : Douglas Smith
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230764880

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Former People by Douglas Smith Pdf

Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin’s Russia. Historian Douglas Smith's Former People is a book filled with chilling tales of looted palaces, burning estates, of desperate flights from marauding thugs and Red Army soldiers, of imprisonment, exile, and execution. It is the story of how a centuries’-old elite famous for its glittering wealth, its service to the Tsar and Empire, was dispossessed and destroyed along with the rest of old Russia. Drawing on the private archives of two great families – the Sheremetovs and the Golitsyns – Former People is also a story of survival, of how many of the tsarist ruling class, so-called 'former people' and 'class enemies,' abandoned, displaced, and repressed, overcame the loss of their world and struggled to find a place for themselves and their families in the new, hostile world of the Soviet Union. It reveals how even at the darkest depths of the terror, daily life went on – men and women fell in love, children were born and educated, friends gathered, simple pleasures were cherished. Ultimately, Former People is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

Author : Neil Faulkner
Publisher : People's History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Alternative Press Collection
ISBN : 0745399037

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A People's History of the Russian Revolution by Neil Faulkner Pdf

The Russian Revolution may be the most misunderstood and misrepresented event in modern history, its history told in a mix of legends and anecdotes. In A People's History of the Russian Revolution, Neil Faulkner sets out to debunk the myths and pry fact from fiction, putting at the heart of the story the Russian people who are the true heroes of this tumultuous tale. In this fast-paced introduction, Faulkner tells the powerful narrative of how millions of people came together in a mass movement, organized democratic assemblies, mobilized for militant action, and overturned a vast regime of landlords, profiteers, and warmongers. Faulkner rejects caricatures of Lenin and the Bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators or the progenitors of Stalinist dictatorship, and forcefully argues that the Russian Revolution was an explosion of democracy and creativity--and that it was crushed by bloody counter-revolution and replaced with a form of bureaucratic state-capitalism. Grounded by powerful first-hand testimony, this history marks the centenary of the Revolution by restoring the democratic essence of the revolution, offering a perfect primer for the modern reader.

Author : Robert Service
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447293118

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The Last of the Tsars by Robert Service Pdf

‘A timely and important book . . . he brings to it rare clarity and common sense. His book is a fast-paced account of the last sixteen months of the tsar’s life; brief, sharp, but laced with well-judged feeling for the dramas of the time.’ Catherine Merridale, Observer In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. In this masterful and forensic study, Robert Service examines the last year Nicholas's reign and the months between that momentous abdication and his death, with his family, in Ekaterinburg in July 1918. Drawing on the Tsar's own diaries and other hitherto unexamined contemporary records, The Last of the Tsars reveals a man who was almost entirely out of his depth, perhaps even willfully so. It is also a compelling account of the social, economic and political foment in Russia in the aftermath of Alexander Kerensky's February Revolution, the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917 and the beginnings of Lenin's Soviet republic.

Author : Stephen M. Norris,Willard Sunderland
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253001764

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Russia's People of Empire by Stephen M. Norris,Willard Sunderland Pdf

This book explores the multicultural world of historical Russia through the life stories of 31 individuals that exemplify the cross-cultural exchanges in the country from the late 1500s to post-Soviet Russia.

Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0674781198

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Russia by Geoffrey A. Hosking Pdf

Discusses the sixteenth century roots of the lack of a unified Russian identity, the division between the gentry and the peasantry, and the widening gap in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which led to revolution and continues to affect Russia today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Russia
ISBN : OCLC:1243873890

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The Tsar and His People, Or, Social Life in Russia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexis S. Troubetzkoy
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Russia
ISBN : 1559706082

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Imperial Legend by Alexis S. Troubetzkoy Pdf

Caught up in the personal and political maelstrom between his domineering grandmother Catherine the Great and his highly neurotic and volatile father, Paul I, Alexander came to the throne as a result of a coup mounted against his father in March 1801. Alexander was devastated when the takeover turned violent and his father was assassinated.".

Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher : Bodley Head Childrens
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Russia
ISBN : 1847922910

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A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes Pdf

Vast in scope, based on exhaustive original research, and written with passion, narrative skill and human sympathy, this book offers an account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation.