Goncharov In The Twenty First Century

Author : Ingrid Kleespies,Lyudmila Parts
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644697009

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Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century by Ingrid Kleespies,Lyudmila Parts Pdf

Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century brings together a range of international scholars for a reexamination of Ivan Goncharov’s life and work through a twenty-first century critical lens. Contributions to the volume highlight Goncharov’s service career, the complex and understudied manifestation of Realism in his work, the diverse philosophical threads that shape his novels, and the often colliding contexts of writer and imperial bureaucrat in the 1858 travel text Frigate Pallada. Chapters engage with approaches from post-colonial and queer studies, theories of genre and the novel, desire, laughter, technology, and mobility and travel.

Author : Edyta M. Bojanowska
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674985704

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A World of Empires by Edyta M. Bojanowska Pdf

Through the lens of a classic Russian travelogue, this historical study examines early globalization and Russia’s participation in the Imperial race. In the 1850s, American Commodore Matthew Perry embarked on a legendary expedition to open trade relations with Japan. Less well known is the Russian expedition that followed on his heels. Serving aboard the Russian Frigate Pallada was the novelist Ivan Goncharov, who turned his impressions into a bestselling book. In A World of Empires, Edyta Bojanowska uses Goncharov’s travelogue as a window onto mid-19th century global imperialism. Goncharov recounts experiences in Africa’s Cape Colony, Dutch Java, Spanish Manila, Japan, and the British ports of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, offering keen insight on imperial expansion, cooperation, and competition. Often overlooked in the history of European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an increasingly assertive empire, eager to position itself on the world stage and fully conversant with the ideologies of civilizing mission and race. Goncharov’s gripping narrative offers a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Bojanowska’s illuminating analysis reveals both a zeal to emulate European powers and a determination to define Russia against them. A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year

Author : Stephen Pearl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 071455037X

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Malinovka Heights by Stephen Pearl Pdf

Conceived twenty years before its initial publication in 1869, and regarded by its author as his best work, Malinovka Heights (previously translated in English as The Precipice) is Goncharov's crowning achievement as a novelist and a triumph of psychological insight. Here presented for the first time in unabridged form in a sparkling new translation by Stephen Pearl, Goncharov's final novel deserves to be reassessed as one of the most important classics of nineteenth-century Russian literature. After his university studies and a short stint in the army and the civil service, thirty-something Boris Pavlovich Raisky enjoys the life of an artist, frequenting St Petersburg's elegant circles, dabbing at his paintings, playing a little music and entertaining thoughts of writing a novel. But for a man like him, who has achieved nothing so far and by his own admission is "not born to work", the bustle of the capital proves too much, so he decides to visit his country estate of Malinovka. There he hopes to rediscover the joys of a simpler and more authentic life - but when he becomes emotionally involved with his beautiful cousin Vera and meets the dangerous freethinker Mark Volokhov, the scene is set for a chain of events that will lead to disappointment, confrontation and, ultimately, tragedy.

Author : Loretta E. Kim,Chengyi Zhou
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793616746

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The Russian Orthodox Community in Hong Kong by Loretta E. Kim,Chengyi Zhou Pdf

Russian Orthodox Christianity is the cornerstone of a diverse cultural community in modern Hong Kong. This book explores the contributions that this group has made to the social landscape of Hong Kong from the British colonial period to the current era of integration into China.

Author : Barbara Ann Chotiner,Linda J. Cook
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793636102

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The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century by Barbara Ann Chotiner,Linda J. Cook Pdf

The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century presents studies by senior scholars and practitioners that are highly relevant to contemporary political challenges. The democratic vision that accompanied the collapse of communist regimes in the Soviet Union and East Central Europe has been replaced by a range of authoritarian, semi-authoritarian and democratic regimes, and growing division between Western and Russian influence. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to renewed tensions and international crisis. China, which presents major challenges to the US, Europe, and the global order, has emerged as a critical actor in the international conflict. The need to understand the internal dynamics and international behavior of communist and authoritarian regimes is more urgent at this time. The expertise provided by the volume’s contributors is especially timely, offering new insights into the past and contemporary politics of these states, the agendas driving their behavior, regimes’ domestic strengths and weaknesses, and the role of leaders’ differing perceptions in exacerbating international conflict. Practitioners demonstrate how such knowledge can inform effective policy and ameliorative efforts.

Author : Robert Legvold
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231512176

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Russian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century and the Shadow of the Past by Robert Legvold Pdf

Because the turbulent trajectory of Russia's foreign policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union echoes previous moments of social and political transformation, history offers a special vantage point from which to judge the current course of events. In this book, a mix of leading historians and political scientists examines the foreign policy of contemporary Russia over four centuries of history. The authors explain the impact of empire and its loss, the interweaving of domestic and foreign impulses, long-standing approaches to national security, and the effect of globalization over time. Contributors focus on the underlying patterns that have marked Russian foreign policy and that persist today. These patterns are driven by the country's political makeup, geographical circumstances, economic strivings, unsettled position in the larger international setting, and, above all, its tortured effort to resolve issues of national identity. The argument here is not that the Russia of Putin and his successors must remain trapped by these historical patterns but that history allows for an assessment of how much or how little has changed in Russia's approach to the outside world and creates a foundation for identifying what must change if Russia is to evolve. A truly unique collection, this volume utilizes history to shed crucial light on Russia's complex, occasionally inscrutable relationship with the world. In so doing, it raises the broader issue of the relationship of history to the study of contemporary foreign policy and how these two enterprises might be better joined.

Author : Denis Auroux,Ludmil Katzarkov,Tony Pantev,Yan Soibelman,Yuri Tschinkel
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319599397

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Algebra, Geometry, and Physics in the 21st Century by Denis Auroux,Ludmil Katzarkov,Tony Pantev,Yan Soibelman,Yuri Tschinkel Pdf

This volume is a tribute to Maxim Kontsevich, one of the most original and influential mathematicians of our time. Maxim’s vision has inspired major developments in many areas of mathematics, ranging all the way from probability theory to motives over finite fields, and has brought forth a paradigm shift at the interface of modern geometry and mathematical physics. Many of his papers have opened completely new directions of research and led to the solutions of many classical problems. This book collects papers by leading experts currently engaged in research on topics close to Maxim’s heart. Contributors: S. Donaldson A. Goncharov D. Kaledin M. Kapranov A. Kapustin L. Katzarkov A. Noll P. Pandit S. Pimenov J. Ren P. Seidel C. Simpson Y. Soibelman R. Thorngren

Author : Galya Diment
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810114054

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Goncharov's Oblomov by Galya Diment Pdf

All the essays were written specifically for this volume and are published here for the first time. The book also includes an introduction, autobiographical materials, an annotated bibliography, and letters never before translated into English.

Author : Danhui Li,Yafeng Xia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498511674

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Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959–1973 by Danhui Li,Yafeng Xia Pdf

This study provides a comprehensive examination of the breaking of political relations between China and the Soviet Union. Based on archival materials from several countries—particularly China—the authors analyze the split from 1959, when visible cracks in the relationship appeared, to China’s foreign policy shift toward the United States in 1973.

Author : Nicole Perlroth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526629838

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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth Pdf

WINNER OF THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 The instant New York Times bestseller A Financial Times and The Times Book of the Year 'A terrifying exposé' The Times 'Part John le Carré . . . Spellbinding' New Yorker We plug in anything we can to the internet. We can control our entire lives, economy and grid via a remote web control. But over the past decade, as this transformation took place, we never paused to think that we were also creating the world's largest attack surface. And that the same nation that maintains the greatest cyber advantage on earth could also be among its most vulnerable. Filled with spies, hackers, arms dealers and a few unsung heroes, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing and gripping feat of journalism. Drawing on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, Nicole Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the global cyber arms race to heel.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004521841

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From Northeast Passage to Northern Sea Route by Anonim Pdf

This volume is the first study of the entire history of the Northern Sea Route, from its earliest exploration to the twenty-first century. It includes the West-European search for a new waterway to the Orient (sixteenth to seventeenth century), the Russian Kamchatka expeditions (eighteenth century), and the navigation from Europe to the major rivers in north-west Siberia (late nineteenth to early twentieth century), as well as the Russian utilisation of the sea route in the Soviet epoch and later.

Author : Alastair Iain Johnston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400852987

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Social States by Alastair Iain Johnston Pdf

"Constructive engagement" became a catchphrase under the Clinton administration for America's reinvigorated efforts to pull China firmly into the international community as a responsible player, one that abides by widely accepted norms. Skeptics questioned the effectiveness of this policy and those that followed. But how is such socialization supposed to work in the first place? This has never been all that clear, whether practiced by the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Japan, or the United States. Social States is the first book to systematically test the effects of socialization in international relations--to help explain why players on the world stage may be moved to cooperate when doing so is not in their material power interests. Alastair Iain Johnston carries out his groundbreaking theoretical task through a richly detailed look at China's participation in international security institutions during two crucial decades of the "rise of China," from 1980 to 2000. Drawing on sociology and social psychology, this book examines three microprocesses of socialization--mimicking, social influence, and persuasion--as they have played out in the attitudes of Chinese diplomats active in the Conference on Disarmament, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, the Convention on Conventional Weapons, and the ASEAN Regional Forum. Among the key conclusions: Chinese officials in the post-Mao era adopted more cooperative and more self-constraining commitments to arms control and disarmament treaties, thanks to their increasing social interactions in international security institutions.

Author : Janko Lavrin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258082713

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Goncharov by Janko Lavrin Pdf

Author : Bryan Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317191544

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A History of the Theatre Laboratory by Bryan Brown Pdf

The term ‘theatre laboratory’ has entered the regular lexicon of theatre artists, producers, scholars and critics alike, yet use of the term is far from unified, often operating as an catch-all for a web of intertwining practices, territories, pedagogies and ideologies. Russian theatre, however, has seen a clear emergence of laboratory practice that can be divided into two distinct organisational structures: the studio and the masterskaya (artisanal guild). By assessing these structures, Bryan Brown offers two archetypes of group organisation that can be applied across the arts and sciences, and reveals a complex history of the laboratory’s characteristics and functions that support the term’s use in theatre. This book’s discursive, historical approach has been informed substantially by contemporary practice, through interviews with and examinations of practitioners including Slava Polunin, Anatoli Vassiliev, Sergei Zhenovach and Dmitry Krymov.

Author : Warren I. Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0231104073

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Pacific Passage by Warren I. Cohen Pdf

A study of relations between America and East Asia on the eve of the twenty-first century.