Russia S Dangerous Texts

Author : Kathleen F. Parthe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300138221

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Russia's Dangerous Texts by Kathleen F. Parthe Pdf

Russia’s Dangerous Texts examines the ways that writers and their works unnerved and irritated Russia’s authoritarian rulers both before and after the Revolution. Kathleen F. Parthé identifies ten historically powerful beliefs about literature and politics in Russia, which include a view of the artistic text as national territory, and the belief that writers must avoid all contact with the state. Parthé offers a compelling analysis of the power of Russian literature to shape national identity despite sustained efforts to silence authors deemed subversive. No amount of repression could prevent the production, distribution, and discussion of texts outside official channels. Along with tragic stories of lost manuscripts and persecuted writers, there is ample evidence of an unbroken thread of political discourse through art. The book concludes with a consideration of the impact of two centuries of dangerous texts on post-Soviet Russia.

Author : Brian P. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136736124

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Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia by Brian P. Bennett Pdf

Church Slavonic, one of the world's historic sacred languages, has experienced a revival in post-Soviet Russia. Blending religious studies and sociolinguistics, this is the first book devoted to Church Slavonic in the contemporary period. It is not a narrow study in linguistics, but uses Slavonic as a passkey into various wider topics, including the renewal and factionalism of the Orthodox Church; the transformation of the Russian language; and the debates about protecting the nation from Western cults and culture. It considers both official and popular forms of Orthodox Christianity, as well as Russia's esoteric and neo-pagan traditions. Ranging over such diverse areas as liturgy, pedagogy, typography, mythology, and conspiracy theory, the book illuminates the complex interrelationship between language and faith in post-communist society, and shows how Slavonic has performed important symbolic work during a momentous chapter in Russian history. It is of great interest to scholars of sociolinguistics and of religion, as well as to Russian studies specialists.

Author : Angela Stent
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455533015

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Putin's World by Angela Stent Pdf

In this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world—and increased Russia's status on the global stage. How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems and US ambivalence about whether it still wants to act as a superpower? Putin's World examines the country's turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russians' understanding of their position on the global stage and their future ambitions—and their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the USSR collapsed. This book looks at Russia's key relationships—its downward spiral with the United States, Europe, and NATO; its ties to China, Japan, the Middle East; and with its neighbors, particularly the fraught relationship with Ukraine. Putin's World will help Americans understand how and why the post-Cold War era has given way to a new, more dangerous world, one in which Russia poses a challenge to the United States in every corner of the globe—and one in which Russia has become a toxic and divisive subject in US politics.

Author : Yuri Orlov
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015021878536

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Dangerous Thoughts by Yuri Orlov Pdf

In this highly personal memoir, Yuri Orlov, celebrated scientist and human rights activist, recalls his life in pre-Glasnost Russia. He describes his days as a young man under Stalin, the persecution of his friends Sakharov and Scharansky, and his release from exile, in the famous spy for dissident swap arranged by the U.S., which generated international headlines.

Author : Seth G. Jones
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781324006213

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Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare by Seth G. Jones Pdf

How three key figures in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran built ruthless irregular warfare campaigns that are eroding American power. In Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has focused on building fighter jets, missiles, and conventional warfighting capabilities, its three principal rivals—Russia, Iran, and China—have increasingly adopted irregular warfare: cyber attacks, the use of proxy forces, propaganda, espionage, and disinformation to undermine American power. Jones profiles three pioneers of irregular warfare in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran who adapted American techniques and made huge gains without waging traditional warfare: Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov; the deceased Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani; and vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission Zhang Youxia. Each has spent his career studying American power and devised techniques to avoid a conventional or nuclear war with the US. Gerasimov helped oversee a resurgence of Russian irregular warfare, which included attempts to undermine the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections and the SolarWinds cyber attack. Soleimani was so effective in expanding Iranian power in the Middle East that Washington targeted him for assassination. Zhang Youxia presents the most alarming challenge because China has more power and potential at its disposal. Drawing on interviews with dozens of US military, diplomatic, and intelligence officials, as well as hundreds of documents translated from Russian, Farsi, and Mandarin, Jones shows how America’s rivals have bloodied its reputation and seized territory worldwide. Instead of standing up to autocratic regimes, Jones demonstrates that the United States has largely abandoned the kind of information, special operations, intelligence, and economic and diplomatic action that helped win the Cold War. In a powerful conclusion, Jones details the key steps the United States must take to alter how it thinks about—and engages in—competition before it is too late.

Author : Paul McDonald,Courtney Brannon Donoghue,Timothy Havens
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781479806775

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Digital Media Distribution by Paul McDonald,Courtney Brannon Donoghue,Timothy Havens Pdf

"This book examines the current state of global media distribution today, including legacy and born-digital media industries, and the social, cultural, and economic impact of the digital distribution ecosystem"--

Author : Félix Krawatzek,Nina Friess
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110733501

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Youth and Memory in Europe by Félix Krawatzek,Nina Friess Pdf

This volume contends that young individuals across Europe relate to their country’s history in complex and often ambivalent ways. It pays attention to how both formal education and broader culture communicate ideas about the past, and how young people respond to these ideas. The studies collected in this volume show that such ideas about the past are central to the formation of the group identities of nations, social movements, or religious groups. Young people express received historical narratives in new, potentially subversive, ways. As young people tend to be more mobile and ready to interrogate their own roots than later generations, they selectively privilege certain aspects of their identities and their identification with their family or nation while neglecting others. This collection aims to correct the popular misperception that young people are indifferent towards history and prove instead that historical narratives are constitutive to their individual identities and their sense of belonging to something broader than themselves.

Author : Gordon M. Hahn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476644349

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The Russian Dilemma by Gordon M. Hahn Pdf

From the end of the Mongol Empire to today, Russian history is a tale of cultural, political, economic and military interaction with Western powers. The depth of this relationship has created a geopolitical dilemma: Russia has persistently been both attracted to and at odds with Western ideas and technological development, which have tended to threaten Russia's sense of identity and create destabilizing divisions within society. Simultaneously, deepening involvement in Western international affairs brought meddling in Russian domestic politics and military invasion. This book examines how the centuries-old Western threat has shaped Russia's political and strategic structures, creating a culture of security rooted in vigilance against Western influence and interference.

Author : Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 080148331X

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The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal Pdf

A comprehensive account of the influence of occult beliefs and doctrines on intellectual and cultural life in twentieth-century Russia.

Author : Bill Browder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982153281

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Freezing Order by Bill Browder Pdf

At once a financial caper, an international adventure, and a passionate plea for justice, Freezing Order is a stirring morality tale about how one man can take on one of the most dangerous and ruthless villains in the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106019905980

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Russian Studies in History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781105494406

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Anna Karenina: English-Russian Parallel Text Edition Volume One by Leo Tolstoy Pdf

Anna Karenina is presented for the first timein English-Russian parallel text, complete and unabridged ineight volumes. Sensuous, driven Anna's tragic love for CountVronsky is presented in stark contrast to Konstantin Levin'spassionate search for spiritual meaning in Leo Tolstoy's classictale of infidelity, hope, hypocrisy, vengeance and redemption.Volume One of eight with chapter illustrations.

Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCAL:$B42769

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Text by Edward Augustus Freeman Pdf

Author : Ileana Baird,Christina Ionescu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317145455

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Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context by Ileana Baird,Christina Ionescu Pdf

Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. To highlight trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly global significance, the contributors draw their case studies from Western Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. This survey underscores the multifarious ways in which new theoretical approaches, such as thing theory or material and visual culture studies, revise our understanding of the people and objects that inhabit the phenomenological spaces of the eighteenth century. Rather than focusing on a particular geographical area, or on the global as a juxtaposition of regions with a distinctive cultural footprint, this collection draws attention to the unforeseen relational maps drawn by things in their global peregrinations, celebrating the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale.

Author : Patricia A. Weitsman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804748667

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Dangerous Alliances by Patricia A. Weitsman Pdf

Military alliances drive international politics. They embody conflict and cooperation among states and shape the international political landscape. Despite the profound effect alliances have on the course of international politics, many gaps remain in our understanding of their formation, continuance, and cohesion. In this book, Patricia Weitsman introduces a comprehensive theory that unifies current ideas about alliances and examines the relationship between threat and alliance politics under conditions of both war and peace. Examining military alliances before and during World War I, Weitsman provides a new interpretation of the politics of the great powers of this period. She reveals that states frequently form alliances to keep peace among the allied countries, not simply to counter shared external threats. Though alliances may be perceived by others to present a unified and threatening front, countries often face significant threats from within their own alliances. It is this paradox that underscores Weitsman's theory: although alliances are frequently forged to sustain peace, they may, in fact, increase the prospects of war.