Peasant Icons

Author : Cathy A. Frierson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Peasantry
ISBN : 0195072944

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Peasant Icons by Cathy A. Frierson Pdf

In the thirty years after Russian peasants were emancipated in 1861, they became a major focus of Russian intellectual life. This text is the first to examine the revealing images of the peasant created by Russian writers, scholars, journalists, and government officials during that period, as the identity and fate of the Russian peasant became an integral component in the future of Russia envisioned by liberal reformers and conservatives alike. Frierson examines the persisting stereotypes created by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and other intellectuals seeking to understand village life, from the likable narod, the simple folk, to the exploitative kulak, the village strongman.

Author : Jeffrey Burds
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822974994

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Peasant Dreams and Market Politics by Jeffrey Burds Pdf

Examines how peasant migration—the movement of males to cities for wage labor—affected villages before the Bolshevik revolution. New Russian sources are utilized.

Author : Oleg Tarasov,Oleg I︠U︡rʹevich Tarasov
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 1861891180

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Icon and Devotion by Oleg Tarasov,Oleg I︠U︡rʹevich Tarasov Pdf

By tracing the artistic vocabulary, techniques and working methods of icon painters in the last 400 years, Tarasov shows how icons have been integral to the history of Russian art, influenced by folk traditions and Western European currents alike.

Author : Ben Eklof,Stephen P. Frank
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003807711

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The World of the Russian Peasant by Ben Eklof,Stephen P. Frank Pdf

First published in 1990 The World of the Russian Peasant is designed to provide a wide-ranging survey of new developments in Russian peasant studies. Editors Eklof and Frank paint a broad picture of what life was like for the vast majority of Russia’s population before 1917. Individual authors treat the intricacies of the village community and peasant commune, social structure, the everyday life and labour of peasant women, the impact of migration, the spread of education, and peasant art, religion, justice, and politics. The result is a portrait of a people greatly influenced by rapid and radical changes in the world yet seeking to maintain control over their lives and their communities. This is a must read for students of Russian history, Russian peasantry and rural sociology.

Author : Lynne Viola
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Collectivization of agriculture
ISBN : 9780195131048

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Peasant Rebels Under Stalin by Lynne Viola Pdf

Based on newly declassified Soviet archives, including secret police reports, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin documents the active history of the vast peasant rebellion against collectivization between 1928-1932. Lynn Viola reveals the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to virtual civil war between state and peasantry.

Author : Wayne S. Vucinich,John Shelton Curtiss
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : 0804706387

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The Peasant in Nineteenth-Century Russia by Wayne S. Vucinich,John Shelton Curtiss Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Gilles Néret
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 3822819611

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Malevich by Gilles Néret Pdf

The supremacy of pure feeling Dabbling in fauvism and cubism before founding the Suprematist movement, Russian painter and sculptor Kasimir Malevich (1879-1935) was a leading figure of the avant-garde and a pioneer of the non-objective style that he felt would "free viewers from the material world." In 1915, the same year he produced his most famous painting, "Black Square," he published the manifesto From Cubism to Suprematism. To critics who accused his work of being devoid of beauty and nature, he responded "art does not need us, and it never did." His 1918 painting "Suprematist Composition: White on White," one of the most radical artworks of its time, fetched $60 million at auction in 2008. The supremacy of pure feeling About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

Author : Georgeta Roșu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Folk art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133336219

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Glass icons from the collection of the Museum of the Romanian Peasant by Georgeta Roșu Pdf

Author : H. Hudson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137010544

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Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State by H. Hudson Pdf

This book combines social and institutional histories of Russia, focusing on the secret police and their evolving relationship with the peasantry. Based on an analysis of Cheka/OGPU reports, it argues that the police did not initially respond to peasant resistance to Bolshevik demands simply with the gun—rather, they listened to peasant voices.

Author : Alexandre Dessingué,Jay M. Winter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317421337

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Beyond Memory by Alexandre Dessingué,Jay M. Winter Pdf

Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance analyses the intricate connections between silence, acts of remembrance and acts of forgetting, and relates the topic of silence to the international research field of Cultural Memory Studies. It engages with the most recent work in the field by viewing silence as a remedy to the traditionally binary approach to our understanding of remembering and forgetting. The international team of contributors examine case studies from colonialism, war, politics and slavery from across the globe, as well as drawing examples from literature, philosophy and sites of memory to draw three main conclusions. Firstly, that the relationship between remembering and forgetting is relational rather than ‘hermetic’, and the space between the two is often occupied by silence. Secondly, silence is a force in itself, capable of stimulating more or less remembrance. Finally, that silence is a necessary and key element in the interaction between the human mind and the ‘outer world’, and enables people to challenge their understanding of art, music, literature, history and memory. With an introduction by the editors discussing Memory Studies, and concluding remarks by Astrid Erll, this collection demonstrates that acceptance and consideration of silence as having both a performative and aesthetic dimension is an essential component of history and memory studies.

Author : David L. Hoffmann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501725661

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Peasant Metropolis by David L. Hoffmann Pdf

During the 1930's, 23 million peasants left their villages and moved to Soviet cities, where they comprised almost half the urban population and more than half the nation's industrial workers. Drawing on previously inaccessible archival materials, David L. Hoffmann shows how this massive migration to the cities—an influx unprecedented in world history—had major consequences for the nature of the Soviet system and the character of Russian society even today.Hoffmann focuses on events in Moscow between the launching of the industrialization drive in 1929 and the outbreak of war in 1941. He reconstructs the attempts of Party leaders to reshape the social identity and behavior of the millions of newly urbanized workers, who appeared to offer a broad base of support for the socialist regime. The former peasants, however, had brought with them their own forms of cultural expression, social organization, work habits, and attitudes toward authority. Hoffmann demonstrates that Moscow's new inhabitants established social identities and understandings of the world very different from those prescribed by Soviet authorities. Their refusal to conform to the authorities' model of a loyal proletariat thwarted Party efforts to construct a social and political order consistent with Bolshevik ideology. The conservative and coercive policies that Party leaders adopted in response, he argues, contributed to the Soviet Union's emergence as an authoritarian welfare state.

Author : Mark D. Steinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191017773

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The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 by Mark D. Steinberg Pdf

The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 is a new history of Russia's revolutionary era as a story of experience-of people making sense of history as it unfolded in their own lives and as they took part in making history themselves. The major events, trends, and explanations, reaching from Bloody Sunday in 1905 to the final shots of the civil war in 1921, are viewed through the doubled perspective of the professional historian looking backward and the contemporary journalist reporting and interpreting history as it happened. The volume then turns toward particular places and people: city streets, peasant villages, the margins of empire (Central Asia, Ukraine, the Jewish Pale), women and men, workers and intellectuals, artists and activists, utopian visionaries, and discontents of all kinds. We spend time with the famous (Vladimir Lenin, Lev Trotsky, Alexandra Kollontai, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Isaac Babel) and with those whose names we don't even know. Key themes include difference and inequality (social, economic, gendered, ethnic), power and resistance, violence, and ideas about justice and freedom. Written especially for students and general readers, this history relies extensively on contemporary texts and voices in order to bring the past and its meanings to life. This is a history about dramatic and uncertain times and especially about the interpretations, values, emotions, desires, and disappointments that made history matter to those who lived it.

Author : Tom Brass
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0714649406

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Peasants, Populism, and Postmodernism by Tom Brass Pdf

Tracing the emergence and re-emergence of the agrarian myth in the past century the argument in this book is that at the centre of the discourse about the cultural identity of "otherness/difference" lies the concept of an innate "peasant-ness".

Author : Daniel Orlovsky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118620854

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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 : David Moon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317895190

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The Russian Peasantry 1600-1930 by David Moon Pdf

This impressive work, set to become the standard history on the subject, offers a definitive survey of peasant society in Russia, from the consolidation of serfdom and tsarist autocracy in the 17th century through to the destruction of the peasant's traditional world under Stalin. Over three-quarters of Russian society were peasants in these years, and David Moon explores all aspects of their life xxx; including the rural economy, peasant households, village communities xxx; and their political role, including protest against the landowning elites. In the process he presents a fresh perspective on the history of Russia itself. A big book in every way xxx; and compellingly readable.