Children Of Rus

Author : Faith Hillis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801469251

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Children of Rus' by Faith Hillis Pdf

In Children of Rus’, Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River—which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine—was one of the Russian empire’s last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest’s Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities. Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire’s most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native language or identifying with the culture of the Great Russian interior. Nevertheless, as Hillis shows, by the late nineteenth century, Russian nationalists had established a strong foothold in the southwest’s culture and educated society; in the first decade of the twentieth, they secured a leading role in local mass politics. By 1910, with help from sympathetic officials in St. Petersburg, right-bank activists expanded their sights beyond the borderlands, hoping to spread their nationalizing agenda across the empire. Exploring why and how the empire’s southwestern borderlands produced its most organized and politically successful Russian nationalist movement, Hillis puts forth a bold new interpretation of state-society relations under tsarism as she reconstructs the role that a peripheral region played in attempting to define the essential characteristics of the Russian people and their state.

Author : Faith Hillis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:883826513

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Children of Rusʹ by Faith Hillis Pdf

Author : Audra Winslow
Publisher : Boom! Studios
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781646680221

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Jo & Rus by Audra Winslow Pdf

At first, Jo and Rus don’t realize how much they have in common - she’s a middle schooler who’s constantly bullied and he’s a high schooler in a rock band. But when a mysterious one-eyed cat brings the two of them together, they quickly learn they’re both outcasts trying to figure out what they really want from life in a world where the odds are stacked against them. It’s only by becoming friends they discover who they are, who they want to be and what it takes for every one of us to find our own happiness! Cartoonist Audra Winslow presents an all-new story about rolling with the punches when life doesn’t go your way and when you have to stand your ground, no matter the cost.

Author : Faith Hillis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190066338

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Utopia's Discontents by Faith Hillis Pdf

Utopia's Discontents provides the first synthetic treatment of the Russian revolutionary emigration before the Revolution. It argues that neighborhoods created by Russian exiles became sites of revolutionary experimentation that offered their residents a taste of their anticipated utopian future.

Author : Nadya L. Peterson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228007654

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Chekhov's Children by Nadya L. Peterson Pdf

Anton Chekhov's representations of children have generally remained on the periphery of scholarly attention. Yet his stories about children, which focus on communication and the emergence of personhood, also illuminate the process by which the author forged his own language of expression and occupy a uniquely important place within his work. Chekhov's Children explores these stories – dating from Chekhov's early writings in the 1880s – as a distinct body of work unified by the theme of maturation and by the creation of a literary model of childhood. Nadya Peterson describes the evolution of Chekhov's model and its connection with the prevalent views on children in the literature, education, medicine, and psychology of his time. As with his later writing, Chekhov's portrayals of young protagonists exhibit complexity, diversity, and a broad reach across the writer's cultural and literary landscape, dealing with such themes as the distinctiveness of a child's perspective, the relationship between the worlds of children and adults, the nature of child development, socialization, gender differences, and sexuality. While reconstructing a particular literary model of childhood, this book brings to light a body of discourse on children, childhood development, and education prominent in Russia in the late nineteenth century. Chekhov's Children accords this topic the significance it deserves by placing Chekhov's model of childhood within the broad context of his time and reassessing established notions about the child's place in the author's oeuvre.

Author : Laura Engelstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199794218

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Russia in Flames by Laura Engelstein Pdf

Author's Note -- Part I: Last Years of the Old Empire, 1904-1914 -- Part II: The Great War : Imperial Self-Destruction -- The Great War Begins -- Germans, Jews, Armenians -- Tearing Themselves Apart -- Conflict and Collapse -- Part III: 1917 : Contest for Control -- Five Days that Shook the World -- The Provisional Government and the War -- August-September : From Putsch to Coup -- Bolshevik October -- Death of the Constituent Assembly -- Politics from Below -- Part IV: Sovereign Claims -- The Peace that Wasn't -- Treason and Terror -- Finland's Civil War -- Baltic Entanglements -- Ukrainian Drama, Act I -- Colonial Repercussions -- Part V: War Within -- The Unquiet Don -- Foreign Bodies -- Trotsky Arms, Siberia Mobilizes -- Kolchak : the Wild East -- Ukraine, Act II -- War Against the Cossacks -- Miracle on the Vistula -- War Against the Jews : 1919-1920 -- The Last Page -- War Against the Peasants -- Part VI: Victory and Retreat -- The Proletariat in the Proletarian Dictatorship -- The Revolution Turns Against Itself -- Conclusion: Revolution Against Itself

Author : Geoffrey Hosking
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199580989

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Russian History: A Very Short Introduction by Geoffrey Hosking Pdf

A leading international authority discusses all aspects of Russian history, from the struggle by the state to control society to the transformation of the nation into a multi-ethnic empire, Russia's relations with the West and the post-Soviet era. Original.

Author : Christian Raffensperger
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 193265013X

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Ties of Kinship by Christian Raffensperger Pdf

"Describes and analyzes the dynastic marriages of the descendants of Volodimer, the first ruler of Kyivan Rus', across medieval Europe from the tenth through the twelfth centuries and presents more than twenty-two genealogical charts with accompanying bibliographic information"--

Author : Andrei I. Pliguzov,Research Assistant to the Director Andrei I Pliguzov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674258304

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Documentary Sources on the History of Rus ́ Metropolitanate by Andrei I. Pliguzov,Research Assistant to the Director Andrei I Pliguzov Pdf

Edited and curated by the renowned medievalist Andrei Pliguzov, Documentary Sources on the History of Rus ́ Metropolitanate is a rich resource for any reader interested in the controversies and preoccupations of the Orthodox hierarchy and the clergy throughout the Rus ́ metropolitanate up to the early modern period.

Author : Kate Wilson,Elizabeth Jenner,Nia Roberts
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781839941467

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Coronavirus: A Book for Children by Kate Wilson,Elizabeth Jenner,Nia Roberts Pdf

What is the coronavirus, and why is everyone talking about it? Engagingly illustrated by Axel Scheffler, this approachable and timely book helps answer these questions and many more, providing children aged 5-10 and their parents with clear and accessible explanations about the coronavirus and its effects - both from a health perspective and the impact it has on a family’s day-to-day life. With input from expert consultant Professor Graham Medley of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, as well as advice from teachers and child psychologists, this is a practical and informative resource to help explain the changes we are currently all experiencing. The book is free to read and download, but Nosy Crow would like to encourage readers, should they feel in a position to, to make a donation to: https://www.nhscharitiestogether.co.uk/

Author : Shauna Tominey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780393711608

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Creating Compassionate Kids: Essential Conversations to Have with Young Children by Shauna Tominey Pdf

Young children can surprise us with tough questions. Tominey’s essential guide teaches us how to answer them and foster compassion along the way. If you had to choose one word to describe the world you want children to grow up in, what would it be? Safe? Understanding? Resilient? Compassionate? As parents and caregivers of young children, we know what we want for our children, but not always how to get there. Many children today are stressed by academic demands, anxious about relationships at school, confused by messages they hear in the media, and overwhelmed by challenges at home. Young children look to the adults in their lives for everything. Sometimes we’re prepared... sometimes we’re not. In this book, Shauna Tominey guides parents and caregivers through how to have conversations with young children about a range of topics-from what makes us who we are (e.g., race, gender) to tackling challenges (e.g., peer pressure, divorce, stress) to showing compassion (e.g., making friends, recognizing privilege, being a helper). Talking through these topics in an age-appropriate manner—rather than telling children they are too young to understand—helps children recognize how they feel and how they fit in with the world around them. This book provides sample conversations, discussion prompts, storybook recommendations, and family activities. Dr. Tominey's research-based strategies and practical advice creates dialogues that teach self-esteem, resilience, and empathy: the building blocks for a more compassionate world.

Author : Sofiya Pasternack
Publisher : Versify
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9780358006077

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Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack Pdf

In an alternate ninth century, twelve-year-old Anya and a new friend face a Viking and a Tsar to protect the water dragon that saved her life, putting her family's home at risk.

Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521155118

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The Origins of the Slavic Nations by Serhii Plokhy Pdf

This 2006 book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important questions about the origins of the East Slavic nations and the essential similarities or differences between their cultures. It traces the origins of the modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nations by focusing on pre-modern forms of group identity among the Eastern Slavs. It also challenges attempts to 'nationalize' the Rus' past on behalf of existing national projects, laying the groundwork for understanding of the pre-modern history of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The book covers the period from the Christianization of Kyivan Rus' in the tenth century to the reign of Peter I and his eighteenth-century successors, by which time the idea of nationalism had begun to influence the thinking of East Slavic elites.

Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250796905

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The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes Pdf

“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West.” —Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy and Red Famine Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews From “the great storyteller of Russian history” (Financial Times), a brilliant account of the national mythologies and imperial ideologies that have shaped Russia’s past and politics—essential reading for understanding the country today The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia’s history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies. From the founding of Kievan Rus in the first millennium to Putin’s war against Ukraine, Orlando Figes explores the ideas that have guided Russia’s actions throughout its long and troubled existence. Whether he's describing the crowning of Ivan the Terrible in a candlelit cathedral or the dramatic upheaval of the peasant revolution, he reveals the impulses, often unappreciated or misunderstood by foreigners, that have driven Russian history: the medieval myth of Mother Russia’s holy mission to the world; the imperial tendency toward autocratic rule; the popular belief in a paternal tsar dispensing truth and justice; the cult of sacrifice rooted in the idea of the “Russian soul”; and always, the nationalist myth of Russia’s unjust treatment by the West. How the Russians came to tell their story and to revise it so often as they went along is not only a vital aspect of their history; it is also our best means of understanding how the country thinks and acts today. Based on a lifetime of scholarship and enthrallingly written, The Story of Russia is quintessential Figes: sweeping, revelatory, and masterful.

Author : Neil Price
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465096992

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Children of Ash and Elm by Neil Price Pdf

The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirík Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.