Soviet Potpourri

Author : Laszlo Solymar
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781524681234

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Soviet Potpourri by Laszlo Solymar Pdf

This book has been written for those who know already a lot about what happened in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. It is at times controversial, at times humorous, and, I hope, constantly provocative. My aim is for readers to say or at least think, Yes, I can now see things more clearly. The principal events of Soviet history are discussed. The central thesis is that the Soviet Union was far from unique, that its ideology bore nearly exclusively the marks of a religion and most of its functioning was derived from the French Revolution, from Nazi Germany, and from Imperial Russia. There is a lot written about the purges, a prediction made in 1984 about the demise of the Soviet Union and a short play about the unsuccessful coup against Gorbachev. The book ends with a light touchjokes about the Soviet system.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1985-03
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UIUC:30112105112459

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Air University Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gertjan Plets
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317220626

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Heritage Statecraft and Corporate Power by Gertjan Plets Pdf

Heritage Statecraft and Corporate Power examines the politicization of heritage and heritage conflicts in Siberia. In so doing, it challenges the idea that heritage is created by the state and instead argues that heritage creates the state. Building upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in south-central Eurasia, this book provides an analysis of the sociopolitical enmeshment of archaeology and heritage in Russia’s resource colony: Siberia. Although many examples from across Siberia are discussed, the core study region for the book is the Altai Republic, which is located where Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and China intersect. Taking a “heritage statecraft” approach, Plets argues that heritage is a particularly important political instrument in this region. The book considers how different social “groups”—including indigenous communities, Russian settlers, displaced groups, national and international archaeologists, political parties, and energy companies—translate archaeological data into culturally distinct heritages. Plets encourages scrutiny of the different players that mobilize heritage to instill norms and ideas and the ways in which new regulations or institutions are ultimately implemented. Heritage Statecraft and Corporate Power contributes to key debates around the politics of archaeology, resource development, and cultural heritage. It will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, archaeology, and memory.

Author : Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782385011

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Music and International History in the Twentieth Century by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht Pdf

Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century. For more than a century, both state and non-state actors have sought to employ sound and harmony to influence allies and enemies, resolve conflicts, and export their own culture around the world. This book asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence, and how the cultural encounters fostered by music changes our ideas about international history.

Author : Andrey Makarychev
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004513792

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Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe’s Eastern Margins by Andrey Makarychev Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Andrey Makarychev approaches populism through a critical biopolitical lens and shows that populist narratives are grounded intrinsically in corporeality, sexuality, health, bodily life and religious practices. The author demonstrates that populism is a phenomenon deeply rooted in mass culture. He compares three countries -- Estonia, Ukraine and Russia--that all share post-Soviet experiences offering a broad spectrum of populist discourses. The three case studies display the interconnection between biopower and populism through references to culture, media, art, theatrical performances and literature, raising new questions and directions for understanding traditional accounts of populism. This work was supported by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 822682: "Populist rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neo-feudalism – POPREBEL".

Author : Heli Reimann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000440546

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Tallinn '67 Jazz Festival by Heli Reimann Pdf

Tallinn ’67 Jazz Festival: Myths and Memories explores the legendary 1967 jazz gathering that centered Tallinn, Estonia as the jazz capital of the USSR and marked both the pinnacle of a Soviet jazz awakening as well as the end of a long series of evolutionary jazz festivals in Estonia. This study offers new insights into what was the largest Soviet jazz festival of its time through an abundance of collected materials – including thousands of pages of archival documents, more than a hundred hours of interviews and countless media reviews and photographs – while grappling with the constellation of myths integral to jazz discourse in an attempt to illuminate ‘how it really was’. Accounts from musicians, jazz fans, organisers and listeners bring renewed life to this transcultural event from more than half a century ago, framed by scholarly discussions contextualizing the festival within the closed conditions of the Cold War. Tallinn ’67 Jazz Festival details the lasting international importance of this confluence of Estonian, Soviet and American jazz and the ripple effects it spread throughout the world.

Author : Stuart Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994-07-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521402675

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Russians on Russian Music, 1830-1880 by Stuart Campbell Pdf

The volume reveals, through contemporary Russian eyes, how the foundations of the hugely popular Russian classical repertory were laid, providing a vivid picture of the musical life of the opera house and the concert hall from which this repertory sprang.

Author : Vlad Strukov,Sarah Hudspith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317235583

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Russian Culture in the Age of Globalization by Vlad Strukov,Sarah Hudspith Pdf

This book brings together scholars from across a variety of disciplines who use different methodologies to interrogate the changing nature of Russian culture in the twenty-first century. The book considers a wide range of cultural forms that have been instrumental in globalizing Russia. These include literature, art, music, film, media, the internet, sport, urban spaces, and the Russian language. The book pays special attention to the processes by which cultural producers negotiate between Russian government and global cultural capital. It focuses on the issues of canon, identity, soft power and cultural exchange. The book provides a conceptual framework for analyzing Russia as a transnational entity and its contemporary culture in the globalized world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Warships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105072002889

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Warship International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carlo Caldarola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110823530

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Religion and Societies by Carlo Caldarola Pdf

The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems – both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Communism
ISBN : UVA:X030806400

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East Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Jay Risch
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739178232

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Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc by William Jay Risch Pdf

Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the rise of youth as consumers of popular culture and the globalization of popular music in Russia and Eastern Europe. This collection of essays challenges assumptions that Communist leaders and Western-influenced youth cultures were inimically hostile to one another. While initially banning Western cultural trends like jazz and rock-and-roll, Communist leaders accommodated elements of rock and pop music to develop their own socialist popular music. They promoted organized forms of leisure to turn young people away from excesses of style perceived to be Western. Popular song and officially sponsored rock and pop bands formed a socialist beat that young people listened and danced to. Young people attracted to the music and subcultures of the capitalist West still shared the values and behaviors of their peers in Communist youth organizations. Despite problems providing youth with consumer goods, leaders of Soviet bloc states fostered a socialist alternative to the modernity the capitalist West promised. Underground rock musicians thus shared assumptions about culture that Communist leaders had instilled. Still, competing with influences from the capitalist West had its limits. State-sponsored rock festivals and rock bands encouraged a spirit of rebellion among young people. Official perceptions of what constituted culture limited options for accommodating rock and pop music and Western youth cultures. Youth countercultures that originated in the capitalist West, like hippies and punks, challenged the legitimacy of Communist youth organizations and their sponsors. Government media and police organs wound up creating oppositional identities among youth gangs. Failing to provide enough Western cultural goods to provincial cities helped fuel resentment over the Soviet Union’s capital, Moscow, and encourage support for breakaway nationalist movements that led to the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Despite the Cold War, in both the Soviet bloc and in the capitalist West, political elites responded to perceived threats posed by youth cultures and music in similar manners. Young people participated in a global youth culture while expressing their own local views of the world.

Author : Bob Coyle
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781663212993

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I Have Been I Have Seen I Have Been Blessed. by Bob Coyle Pdf

Life’s Journey While On Earth The journey, the quest, I was merely a guest On life’s backbone of time, from zero to prime To confirm I was blessed, I will tell you the rest Of my fruits on the vine, of a life by design. — Robert Coyle

Author : Kurt London
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000805802

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The Soviet Union in World Politics by Kurt London Pdf

The Soviet Union in World Politics, first published in 1980, looks at the change in direction of Soviet foreign policy away from world revolution in the 1970s. Examining the impact of Soviet policies and actions on key nations and regions throughout the world and highlighting their significance as agents for change in the international arena, the authors present an overview of world politics, as well as an in-depth study of Soviet international behaviour.

Author : All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi
Publisher : PRASAR BHARATI CENTRAL ARCHIVES
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1935-10-07
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE INDIAN RADIO TIMES by All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi Pdf

THE INDIAN RADIO TIMES was the first programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, formerly known as The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, it was started publishing from 16 July, 1927. Later, it has been renamed to The Indian Listener w.e.f. 22 December, 1935. It used to serve the listener as a Bradshaw of broadcasting, and used to give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information about major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: THE INDIAN RADIO TIMES LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 07-10-1935 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 76 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 1510-1514 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. IX, No. 20 Document ID: IRT-1934-35(J-D)-VOL-I -20