Life In Russia

Author : Henri Troyat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 0804710309

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Daily Life in Russia under the Last Tsar by Henri Troyat Pdf

This book is a vivid account of life in Moscow, "the most Russian of Russian cities," in the year 1903, a year before Russia's disastrous war with Japan and two years before the momentous Revolution of 1905. Though the undercurrents of social change were running swiftly, the surface stability of the Tsarist regime show no indication of the turmoil ahead. The author, who is perhaps best known for his biography Tolstoy, describes Russian life through the eyes of a fictional young Englishman visiting a prosperous Russian merchant family. All facets of Moscow life are covered, from entertainment and night life to family life and the devotions of the Orthodox. We learn about Russia's factory workers and peasants, its soldiers and lawyers, its priests and its city officials, its Tsar and his entourage: what they do and what they wear, what they think and what they dream. Concluding chapters take our visitor to the famous fair at Nizhny-Novgorod, which was held every year from July 15 to September 10, and on a boat trip down the Volga.

Author : Jesse Burton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534417670

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Living in . . . Russia by Jesse Burton Pdf

Discover what it’s like to grow up in Russia in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series all about kids just like you in countries around the world! Zdravstvuyte! My name is Katia, and I’m a kid just like you living in Russia. Russia is a massive country, located in two continents—Europe and Asia. It’s known for its cool cities bursting with history and culture, awesome wildlife, and diverse climates. Have you ever wondered what Russia is like? Come along with me to find out! Each book in our Living in… series is narrated by a kid growing up in their home country and is filled with fresh, modern illustrations as well as loads of history, geography, and cultural goodies that fit perfectly into Common Core standards. Join kids from all over the world on a globe-trotting adventure with the Living in… series—sure to be a hit with children, parents, educators, and librarians alike!

Author : Susan Richards
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781590513699

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Lost and Found in Russia by Susan Richards Pdf

After the fall of communism, Russia was in a state of shock. The sudden and dramatic change left many people adrift and uncertain—but also full of a tentative but tenacious hope. Returning again and again to the provincial hinterlands of this rapidly evolving country from 1992 to 2008, Susan Richards struck up some extraordinary friendships with people in the middle of this historical drama. Anna, a questing journalist, struggles to express her passionate spirituality within the rules of the new society. Natasha, a restless spirit, has relocated from Siberia in a bid to escape the demands of her upper-class family and her own mysterious demons. Tatiana and Misha, whose business empire has blossomed from the ashes of the Soviet Union, seem, despite their luxury, uneasy in this new world. Richards watches them grow and change, their fortunes rise and fall, their hopes soar and crash. Through their stories and her own experiences, Susan Richards demonstrates how in Russia, the past and the present cannot be separated. She meets scientists convinced of the existence of UFOs and mind-control warfare. She visits a cult based on working the land and a tiny civilization founded on the practices of traditional Russian Orthodoxy. Gangsters, dreamers, artists, healers, all are wondering in their own ways, “Who are we now if we’re not communist? What does it mean to be Russian?” This remarkable history of contemporary Russia holds a mirror up to a forgotten people. Lost and Found in Russia is a magical and unforgettable portrait of a society in transition.

Author : Michael Binyon
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0425081885

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Life in Russia by Michael Binyon Pdf

The first Briton to teach in the U.S.S.R. and the head of the London "Times" Moscow bureau illuminates the daily lives, aspirations, worries and frustrations of ordinary Russians and examines the impact of key social trends.

Author : Svetlana BOYM,Svetlana Boym
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674028647

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Common Places by Svetlana BOYM,Svetlana Boym Pdf

Boym provides a view of Russia that is historically informed, replete with unexpected detail, and stamped with authority. Alternating analysis with personal accounts of Russian life, she conveys the foreignness of Russia and examines its peculiar conceptions of private life and common good, of Culture and Trash, of sincerity and banality.

Author : Ryan Wolf
Publisher : 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781725321663

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Life and Culture in Russia and the Eurasian Republics by Ryan Wolf Pdf

An expansive region, Russia and the Eurasian Republics take up one-sixth of the land surface on Earth. Spread across two continents and eleven time zones, it is no wonder this region's cultural history is similarly wide and diverse. This book offers readers a unique glimpse into Russian and Eurasian cultures, punctuated by vibrant photographs and engaging fact boxes. The accessible text will help readers understand how this region's culture has been shaped and how it has impacted other countries, both in the surrounding area and across the globe.

Author : Alexey Golubev
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501752902

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The Things of Life by Alexey Golubev Pdf

The Things of Life is a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era. It traces the biographies of Soviet things, examining how the material world of the late Soviet period influenced Soviet people's gender roles, habitual choices, social trajectories, and imaginary aspirations. Instead of seeing political structures and discursive frameworks as the only mechanisms for shaping Soviet citizens, Alexey Golubev explores how Soviet people used objects and spaces to substantiate their individual and collective selves. In doing so, Golubev rediscovers what helped Soviet citizens make sense of their selves and the world around them, ranging from space rockets and model aircraft to heritage buildings, and from home gyms to the hallways and basements of post-Stalinist housing. Through these various materialist fascinations, The Things of Life considers the ways in which many Soviet people subverted the efforts of the Communist regime to transform them into a rationally organized, disciplined, and easily controllable community. Golubev argues that late Soviet materiality had an immense impact on the organization of the Soviet historical and spatial imagination. His approach also makes clear the ways in which the Soviet self was an integral part of the global experience of modernity rather than simply an outcome of Communist propaganda. Through its focus on materiality and personhood, The Things of Life expands our understanding of what made Soviet people and society "Soviet."

Author : Choi Chatterjee,David L. Ransel,Mary Cavender,Karen Petrone
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253012609

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Everyday Life in Russia by Choi Chatterjee,David L. Ransel,Mary Cavender,Karen Petrone Pdf

A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and “a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture” (The Russian Review). In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized Russian daily life from pre-revolutionary times through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and transnational perspectives shed new light on the formation and elaboration of gender, ethnicity, class, nationalism, and subjectivity. Changes in consumption and communication patterns, the restructuring of familial and social relations, systems of cultural meanings, and evolving practices in the home, at the workplace, and at sites of leisure are among the topics explored. “Offers readers a richly theoretical and empirical consideration of the ‘state of play’ of everyday life as it applies to the interdisciplinary study of Russia.” —Slavic Review “An engaging look at a vibrant area of research . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice “Volumes of such diversity frequently miss the mark, but this one represents a welcomed introduction to and a ‘must’ read for anyone seriously interested in the subject.” —Cahiers du Monde russe

Author : Nick Holdsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Moscow (Russia)
ISBN : 0233996796

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Moscow by Nick Holdsworth Pdf

A social insight into modern Russia from the viewpoint of the people whose lives, hopes and dreams have been so altered in a period of change, written by a British journalist living and working in Moscow.

Author : Olʹga Petrovna Semenova-Ti︠a︡n-Shanskai︠a︡
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Russia
ISBN : 0253347971

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Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia by Olʹga Petrovna Semenova-Ti︠a︡n-Shanskai︠a︡ Pdf

Ò . . . a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution. . . . The translation is superb.Ó ÑSteven Hoch Ò . . . one of the best ethnographic portraits that we have of the Russian village. . . . a highly readable text that is an excellent introduction to the world of the Russian peasantry.Ó ÑSamuel C. Ramer Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia provides a unique firsthand portrait of peasant family life as recorded by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, an ethnographer and painter who spent four years at the turn of the twentieth century observing the life and customs of villagers in a central Russian province. Unusual in its awareness of the rapid changes in the Russian village in the late nineteenth century and in its concentration on the treatment of women and children, SemyonovaÕs ethnography vividly describes courting rituals, marriage and sexual practices, childbirth, infanticide, child-rearing practices, the lives of women, food and drink, work habits, and the household economy. In contrast to a tradition of rosy, romanticized descriptions of peasant communities by Russian upper-class observers, Semyonova gives an unvarnished account of the harsh living conditions and often brutal relationships within peasant families.

Author : Eleanor Randolph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015037462853

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Waking the Tempests by Eleanor Randolph Pdf

This book by veteran journalist Eleanor Randolph offers a startling picture of life in Russia in the wake of the Soviet collapse, where the chaos that followed engulfed everything and everybody

Author : Stephen M. Norris,Willard Sunderland
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Mary M. Leder
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253214424

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My Life in Stalinist Russia by Mary M. Leder Pdf

"The thoughtful memoirs of a disillusioned daughter of the Russian Revolution. . . . A sometimes astonishing, worm's-eye view of life under totalitarianism, and a valuable contribution to Soviet and Jewish studies." —Kirkus Reviews "In this engrossing memoir, Leder recounts the 34 years she lived in the U.S.S.R. . . . [She] has a marvelous memory for the details of everyday life. . . . This plainly written account will particularly appeal to readers with a general interest in women's memoirs, Russian culture and history, and leftist politics." —Publishers Weekly In 1931, Mary M. Leder, an American teenager, was attending high school in Santa Monica, California. By year's end, she was living in a Moscow commune and working in a factory, thousands of miles from her family, with whom she had emigrated to Birobidzhan, the area designated by the USSR as a Jewish socialist homeland. Although her parents soon returned to America, Mary, who was not permitted to leave, would spend the next 34 years in the Soviet Union. My Life in Stalinist Russia chronicles Leder's experiences from the extraordinary perspective of both an insider and an outsider. Readers will be drawn into the life of this independent-minded young woman, coming of age in a society that she believed was on the verge of achieving justice for all but which ultimately led her to disappointment and disillusionment. Leder's absorbing memoir presents a microcosm of Soviet history and an extraordinary window into everyday life and culture in the Stalin era.

Author : Robert Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:935896817

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Rise of Russia by Robert Wallace Pdf

Author : Chris Cheang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811226786

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Life And Work In Post-soviet Russia by Chris Cheang Pdf

Life and Work in Post-Soviet Russia revolves around the professional and personal experience of living and working in Moscow of a Singapore diplomat, beginning in the aftermath of the USSR's collapse and ending in the first decade-and-a-half of this century.The book seeks to provide readers with glimpses of life in Moscow and Russia in the mid-1990s, as well as in the early years of this century. It deals with not only the sociopolitical and economic challenges of Russia's post-Soviet leaders, but also those facing the man-in-the-street. That the man-in-the-street had to personally bear the brunt of the momentous changes in post-Soviet Russia's rush to reforms is made plain in the book, and not so much the trials and tribulations of his leaders.Life and Work in Post-Soviet Russia also looks to broaden the outlook of Singaporeans, in the first instance, and non-Russians, in general, about Russia, a country which has been portrayed in a negative light by most of the Anglo-Saxon and Western media.This book also gives readers some insight into Singapore's relations with Russia, deals with issues from a personal standpoint without any attempt to inject political science theories into its analyses, and concludes with some thoughts on its future role in the world.