Soviet Princeton

Author : Jon Bartlett,Rika Ruebsaat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : 1554201098

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Soviet Princeton by Jon Bartlett,Rika Ruebsaat Pdf

The winter of 1932-33 saw the small interior town of Princeton, BC divided. Charges of outside agitators and charges by mounted provincial police into picket lines of workers, Ku Klux Klan threats and a beating and cross-burning, the kidnapping of legendary labour organizer Slim Evans who was bundled onto the next train out of town (though he returned soon enough) -- Princeton's few thousand citizens saw much of the human drama of the Great Depression play out right in their own lives over the course of just a few months. A ten percent paycut, in the depths of the Depression, galvanized the miners working Princeton's three coalmines into unionizing, and they brought in Arthur "Slim" Evans from the Workers Unity League to help them. Meanwhile, north of town, one of the federal government's Relief Camps had opened up, and soon Canadian Labour Defence League organizers were at work there. "Outside agitators" became the by-word as the town's merchants and propertied establishment rallied around the cause -- to defeat the "Communist menace" that threatened the prospects of their little town. They were given voice by the colourful local paper the Princeton Star, whose archives provide the source material for much of Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat's engrossing history. Soviet Princeton provides an interesting sidebar as well to Canadian left-labour history, as two years later, one of the main actors in the Princeton drama, Slim Evans, led the On-to-Ottawa Trek of homeless and unemployed protesting the relief camps and their conditions.

Author : Victoria Smolkin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691197234

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A Sacred Space Is Never Empty by Victoria Smolkin Pdf

When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101081976944

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Princeton Alumni Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert K. Durkee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691198743

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The New Princeton Companion by Robert K. Durkee Pdf

"The definitive single-volume compendium of all things Princeton"--

Author : Alexei Yurchak
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400849109

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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More by Alexei Yurchak Pdf

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive. This book explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of "late socialism" (1960s-1980s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation. Focusing on the major transformation of the 1950s at the level of discourse, ideology, language, and ritual, Alexei Yurchak traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings, communities, relations, ideals, and pursuits that this transformation subsequently enabled. His historical, anthropological, and linguistic analysis draws on rich ethnographic material from Late Socialism and the post-Soviet period. The model of Soviet socialism that emerges provides an alternative to binary accounts that describe that system as a dichotomy of official culture and unofficial culture, the state and the people, public self and private self, truth and lie--and ignore the crucial fact that, for many Soviet citizens, the fundamental values, ideals, and realities of socialism were genuinely important, although they routinely transgressed and reinterpreted the norms and rules of the socialist state.

Author : Peter Kenez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139451024

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A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End by Peter Kenez Pdf

An examination of political, social and cultural developments in the Soviet Union. The book identifies the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in the government of Russia, from the turn of the century to the revolution of 1917. Kenez envisions that revolution as a crisis of authority that posed the question, 'Who shall govern Russia?' This question was resolved with the creation of the Soviet Union. Kenez traces the development of the Soviet Union from the Revolution, through the 1920s, the years of the New Economic Policies and into the Stalinist order. He shows how post-Stalin Soviet leaders struggled to find ways to rule the country without using Stalin's methods but also without openly repudiating the past, and to negotiate a peaceful but antipathetic coexistence with the capitalist West. In this second edition, he also examines the post-Soviet period, tracing Russia's development up to the time of publication.

Author : The Princeton Review
Publisher : Princeton Review
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780525570042

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Princeton Review AP U.S. History Prep, 2021 by The Princeton Review Pdf

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Author : Stephen J. Collier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400840427

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Post-Soviet Social by Stephen J. Collier Pdf

The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken--casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market-oriented reforms associated with neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus. In Post-Soviet Social, Stephen Collier examines reform in Russia beyond the Washington Consensus. He turns attention from the noisy battles over stabilization and privatization during the 1990s to subsequent reforms that grapple with the mundane details of pipes, wires, bureaucratic routines, and budgetary formulas that made up the Soviet social state. Drawing on Michel Foucault's lectures from the late 1970s, Post-Soviet Social uses the Russian case to examine neoliberalism as a central form of political rationality in contemporary societies. The book's basic finding--that neoliberal reforms provide a justification for redistribution and social welfare, and may work to preserve the norms and forms of social modernity--lays the groundwork for a critical revision of conventional understandings of these topics.

Author : Loren R. Graham
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400875511

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The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party, 1927-1932 by Loren R. Graham Pdf

No other research organization dominates the field of science in its country to the degree that the Soviet Academy of Sciences does. The coming to power of the Bolsheviks in 1917 presented Russian science with a new governmental attitude toward the place of science in national life. The Soviet Union's first five-year plan, the period of this study, was the crucial period for the Academy. During this time the Academy was transformed. Between 1927 and 1932 important decisions were reached by Soviet leaders concerning the organization, control, and planning of science; the role of science in the national economy, the position of the individual scientist, and the nature of scientific research itself. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : The Princeton Review
Publisher : Princeton Review
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780525569565

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Princeton Review AP European History Prep 2021 by The Princeton Review Pdf

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Author : The Princeton Review
Publisher : Princeton Review
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780525569558

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Princeton Review AP European History Premium Prep 2021 by The Princeton Review Pdf

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Author : The Princeton Review
Publisher : Princeton Review
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780525569398

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Princeton Review GED Test Prep 2021 by The Princeton Review Pdf

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Author : Padma Desai
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400859863

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Perestroika in Perspective by Padma Desai Pdf

Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika is a historic effort at restructuring the troubled Soviet economy. Wide-ranging in scope, harnessed with cultural and political reforms, it raises intriguing and important questions: Are Gorbachev's ideas different from the Kosygin-Brezhnev reform of 1965 that came to naught? What kinds of problems do the Russians have in understanding the market system? Who opposes perestroika? Do Gorbachev's proposals threaten his own future as Soviet leader? How does perestroika relate to a more general environment of openness, of glasnost? What happened at the June 1988 Party Conference? And, above all, is the old order really giving way to a new one? Or does Gorbachev aim at "capitalist icing on a socialist cake"?. To answer these questions and others, Padma Desai, a distinguished pioneer in the modern econometric analysis of the Soviet economy, has distilled from Gorbachev's myriad decrees the outlines of his strategy for doing away with the Soviet Union's long-term economic malaise. Focusing on the key areas of industry, agriculture, services, and foreign trade, she discusses specific blueprints for change and evaluates the possibilities for their success. Skillfully combining charts, photographs, cartoons, and quotes, this book offers a unique and coherent view of the strategy underlying Gorbachev's reform efforts to date--and does so gracefully and with sparkle, in terms completely understandable to the layperson. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Alvin Z. Rubinstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400876150

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Soviets in International Organizations by Alvin Z. Rubinstein Pdf

Focusing on the relationship between the Soviet Union and the leading Afro-Asian neutralists, Professor Rubinstein studies Soviet policy and behavior in international organizations concerned with promoting the economic and social welfare of developing countries. He has made a thorough examination of the records of many such organizations, including the Economic and Social Council, the Technical Assistance Committee, and the International Labor Organization. To gain insight into the conduct and objectives of Soviet representatives at meetings of these groups, and into the behavior of Soviet nationals employed in international secretariats, the author undertook extensive interviewing of neutralist, Communist, and Western officials in New York, Geneva, Vienna, Bangkok, and New Delhi. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : The Princeton Review
Publisher : Princeton Review
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780525570493

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Princeton Review GED Test Prep, 2022 by The Princeton Review Pdf

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