Defenders Of The Motherland

Author : Matthew Rendle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191608018

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Defenders of the Motherland by Matthew Rendle Pdf

Defenders of the Motherland studies how the most powerful social groups in tsarist Russia reacted to the challenges posed by the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Arguing that elite groups-especially nobles, landowners, and officers-played an important role in these events, Matthew Rendle shows how the alienation of tsarist elites from the tsar during the First World War and their support for the new Provisional Government in February 1917 secured the initial success of the revolution. Elites engaged actively with revolutionary politics, serving in the government and forming unions to promote their interests and gather wider support. In doing so, they fostered fears of counter-revolution amongst the lower social classes, radicalizing the popular mood and paving the way for the Bolsheviks. Although increasingly disillusioned with events, elites were not solely counter-revolutionary and were far from united. A poorly-supported military revolt in August 1917 demonstrated different aspirations for the future, whilst as many served the Bolshevik regime after October 1917 as opposed it. The divisions that had existed prior to 1917, exacerbated by the revolution, consequently undermined the White armies' opposition to Bolshevism during Russia's civil war. Nevertheless, the Bolsheviks' fear of 'class enemies' was endemic, and their obsession with removing the threat that former elites posed laid the foundations of the violent and repressive Soviet regime.

Author : Roger R. Reese
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700628605

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The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917 by Roger R. Reese Pdf

In December 1917, nine months after the disintegration of the Russian monarchy, the army officer corps, one of the dynasty’s prime pillars, finally fell—a collapse that, in light of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, historians often treat as inevitable. The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917 contests this assumption. By expanding our view of the Imperial Russian Army to include the experience of the enlisted ranks, Roger R. Reese reveals that the soldier’s revolt in 1917 was more social revolution than anti-war movement—and a revolution based on social distinctions within the officer corps as well as between the ranks. Reese’s account begins in the aftermath of the Crimean War, when the emancipation of the serfs and consequent introduction of universal military service altered the composition of the officer corps as well as the relationship between officers and soldiers. More catalyst than cause, World War I exacerbated a pervasive discontent among soldiers at their ill treatment by officers, a condition that reached all the way back to the founding of the Russian army by Peter I. It was the officers’ refusal to change their behavior toward the soldiers and each other over a fifty-year period, Reese argues, capped by their attack on the Provisional Government in 1917, that fatally weakened the officer corps in advance of the Bolshevik seizure of power. As he details the evolution of Russian Imperial Army over that period, Reese explains its concrete workings—from the conscription and discipline of soldiers to the recruitment and education of officers to the operation of unit economies, honor courts, and wartime reserves. Marshaling newly available materials, his book corrects distortions in both Soviet and Western views of the events of 1917 and adds welcome nuance and depth to our understanding of a critical turning point in Russian history.

Author : Olena Hankivsky,Anastasiya Salnykova
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442693395

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Gender, Politics and Society in Ukraine by Olena Hankivsky,Anastasiya Salnykova Pdf

Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine is the first collection to examine how political, social, and economic transitions in post-Communist Ukraine are transforming gender roles and relations within the country. Leading Western and Ukrainian scholars and practitioners address a wide range of effects associated with and reinforced by these transitions – including the breakdown of the general welfare system, the lack of progress in the development of the healthcare system, gender inequality in political representation, the patriarchal nature of nation building, human trafficking, domestic violence, changing conceptions of fatherhood and masculinity, homelessness, and LGBT issues – from a variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives. Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine is particularly innovative in its exploration of both women's and men's experiences and the ways in which gender relations shift over time in societies undergoing transitions to democracy. As such, this volume furthers the understanding of the complex obstacles and challenges of working towards gender equality in evolving democracies and identifies future priorities for research, politics, and policy development.

Author : Timm Beichelt,Susann Worschech
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838269443

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Transnational Ukraine? by Timm Beichelt,Susann Worschech Pdf

The Euromaidan protests showed Ukraine to be a state between East and West European paths. Ukraine’s search for an identity and future is deeply rooted in historical fractures, which indicate its longstanding ties beyond its borders. In this volume, distinguished scholars provide empirical analysis and theoretical reflections on Ukraine’s transnational embeddedness, which surfaced with an unexpected intensity in the recent political conflict. The essays have subjects including the role of international media and of diaspora communities in Euromaidan’s aftermath, the transnational roots of memory and the search for collective identity, and transnational linkages of elites within Ukrainian political and economic regimes. The anthology demonstrates the theoretical and analytical value of the concept of transnationalism for studying the ambivalent processes of post-Soviet modernization.

Author : Daniel Orlovsky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118620847

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A Companion to the Russian Revolution by Daniel Orlovsky Pdf

A compendium of original essays and contemporary viewpoints on the 1917 Revolution The Russian revolution of 1917 reverberated throughout an empire that covered one-sixth of the world. It altered the geo-political landscape of not only Eurasia, but of the entire globe. The impact of this immense event is still felt in the present day. The historiography of the last two decades has challenged conceptions of the 1917 revolution as a monolithic entity— the causes and meanings of revolution are many, as is reflected in contemporary scholarship on the subject. A Companion to the Russian Revolution offers more than thirty original essays, written by a team of respected scholars and historians of 20th century Russian history. Presenting a wide range of contemporary perspectives, the Companion discusses topics including the dynamics of violence in war and revolution, Russian political parties, the transformation of the Orthodox church, Bolshevism, Liberalism, and more. Although primarily focused on 1917 itself, and the singular Revolutionary experience in that year, this book also explores time-periods such as the First Russian Revolution, early Soviet government, the Civil War period, and even into the 1920’s. Presents a wide range of original essays that discuss Brings together in-depth coverage of political history, party history, cultural history, and new social approaches Explores the long-range causes, influence on early Soviet culture, and global after-life of the Russian Revolution Offers broadly-conceived, contemporary views of the revolution largely based on the author’s original research Links Russian revolutions to Russian Civil Wars as concepts A Companion to the Russian Revolution is an important addition to modern scholarship on the subject, and a valuable resource for those interested in Russian, Late Imperial, or Soviet history as well as anyone interested in Revolution as a global phenomenon.

Author : Arkady Babchenko
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555848354

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One Soldier's War by Arkady Babchenko Pdf

A visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars. In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naïve conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages. Babchenko takes the raw and mundane realities of war the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion, filth, and terror and twists it into compelling, haunting, and eerily elegant prose. Acclaimed by reviewers around the world, this is a devastating first-person account of war that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of One Soldier’s War was hailed by Tibor Fisher in The Guardian as “right up there with Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Michael Herr’s Dispatches.” Mark Bowden, bestselling author of Black Hawk Down, hailed it as “hypnotic and terrifying” and the book won Russia’s inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write despite, not because of, their life circumstances. “If you haven’t yet learned that war is hell, this memoir by a young Russian recruit in his country’s battle with the breakaway republic of Chechnya, should easily convince you.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Maya Eichler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804778367

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Militarizing Men by Maya Eichler Pdf

A state's ability to maintain mandatory conscription and wage war rests on the idea that a "real man" is one who has served in the military. Yet masculinity has no inherent ties to militarism. The link between men and the military, argues Maya Eichler, must be produced and reproduced in order to fill the ranks, engage in combat, and mobilize the population behind war. In the context of Russia's post-communist transition and the Chechen wars, men's militarization has been challenged and reinforced. Eichler uncovers the challenges by exploring widespread draft evasion and desertion, anti-draft and anti-war activism led by soldiers' mothers, and the general lack of popular support for the Chechen wars. However, the book also identifies channels through which militarized gender identities have been reproduced. Eichler's empirical and theoretical study of masculinities in international relations applies for the first time the concept of "militarized masculinity," developed by feminist IR scholars, to the case of Russia.

Author : Joseph I. Zajda
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483157580

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Education in the USSR by Joseph I. Zajda Pdf

Education in the USSR examines the current and official Soviet educational philosophy, with emphasis on social, moral, and political aspects of Soviet education. Organized into five chapters, this book begins with a discussion on the origins of Soviet educational philosophy. Then, the Soviet school as an organization is explained. Subsequent chapters elucidate the moral education and political socialization of Soviet schoolchildren, and the education for labor, patriotism, and defense. The education of Soviet teachers is also addressed.

Author : Hiranya Borah
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Mula Gabharu by Hiranya Borah Pdf

The novel is based on an Assamese legend, Princess Mula Gabharu, the younger sister of the Greatest Ahom King, Swargadeo Suhungmung Dihinigia Raja, who became a martyr while defending border against the fifth attempt (out of 17 unsuccessful attempts in 158 years from 1527 to 1685) by the Mighty Mughals to subjugate Assam in 1533-34. She took a decision to face the invading army after her husband Frasengmung Borgohain became a martyr fighting with the same invaders. Her participation galvanized the Assamese Army to defeat the Mughals and the leader of the invaders, Turbak Khan was killed by her stepbrother, Konseng Borpatra Gohain. Her son, Ton Kham also took part in this battle. The novel also describes the heroics of Sati Sadhani, the last Chutiya Queen and Kachari Prince, Detcha who were defeated by Frasengmung Borgohain in two separate battles. The novel also refers about Rani Gaidinlu while legacy of Mula has been shared with the readers.

Author : Celine-Marie Pascale
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452256047

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Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation by Celine-Marie Pascale Pdf

In a global landscape, the representational practices through which inequalities gain meaning are central- both within and across national boundaries. Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation takes a fresh look at how inequalities of class, race, sexuality, gender, and nation are constructed in twenty countries on five continents. It offers both rich insight and cultural critique- yet it does not offer a universal paradigm, nor is it concerned with debates about scholarship from "the center" or "the periphery". The collection de-centers North American/European paradigms by placing scholarship from countries around the globe on equal footing. Readers will find a variety of analytical styles including frame analysis, semiotics, poststructural discourse analysis, critical discourse studies, and conversation analysis. Each chapter provides an overview of relevant cultural and historical contexts for an international audience as well as a brief introduction to relevant methodological and theoretical frameworks. Consequently, it is both a richly diverse and easily accessible collection.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UOM:39015078435362

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Soviet Military Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105071560606

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Translations from Kommunist by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : World politics
ISBN : OSU:32435063985220

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Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

Author : Andreĭ Antonovich Grechko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UCR:31210012144299

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The Armed Forces of the Soviet State by Andreĭ Antonovich Grechko Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110700924

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Soviet Military Thought by Anonim Pdf