The Real Situation In Russia Routledge Revivals

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317744719

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The Real Situation in Russia (Routledge Revivals) by Leon Trotsky Pdf

The Real Situation in Russia, first published in 1928, contains three of Trotsky’s harshest rebuttals of Stalin’s takeover of the Russian Revolution following the death of Lenin. The first part contains a defence of the ‘Opposition Platform’ against the Stalinist denunciation; the second details Trotsky’s view of the precise nature of the Stalinist program, as well as its disastrous consequences for Russia; and the third demonstrates the unashamed falsification of the history by Stalin with regard to the beginning of the Revolution. Including a sympathetic, but nonetheless astute, introduction to Trotsky’s argument by the translator, The Real Situation in Russia will prove to be of value to all students of twentieth-century Marxism, and in particular to those interested in the Russian Revolution – not only its origins and early development, but also, perhaps, the reasons for its ultimate failure.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:486944967

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The Real Situation in Russia by Leon Trotsky Pdf

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317744702

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The Real Situation in Russia (Routledge Revivals) by Leon Trotsky Pdf

The Real Situation in Russia, first published in 1928, contains three of Trotsky’s harshest rebuttals of Stalin’s takeover of the Russian Revolution following the death of Lenin. The first part contains a defence of the ‘Opposition Platform’ against the Stalinist denunciation; the second details Trotsky’s view of the precise nature of the Stalinist program, as well as its disastrous consequences for Russia; and the third demonstrates the unashamed falsification of the history by Stalin with regard to the beginning of the Revolution. Including a sympathetic, but nonetheless astute, introduction to Trotsky’s argument by the translator, The Real Situation in Russia will prove to be of value to all students of twentieth-century Marxism, and in particular to those interested in the Russian Revolution – not only its origins and early development, but also, perhaps, the reasons for its ultimate failure.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Communism
ISBN : OCLC:279399747

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The Real Situation in Russia by Leon Trotsky Pdf

Author : Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 1138910740

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Russia and Peace (Routledge Revivals) by Fridtjof Nansen Pdf

This book, first published in 1923, endeavoured to provide a brief account of the social and economic conditions in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. Russia and Peace discusses the interest in Russia shown by other countries, the country's economic development, and the social problems it was experiencing at the time. This book will be of interest to students of history.

Author : Laura Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134341085

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Performing Russia by Laura Olson Pdf

This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia showing how folk 'tradition' in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented.

Author : Friedrich Christian Weber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367140861

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The Present State of Russia Vol. 2 by Friedrich Christian Weber Pdf

Published in 1968, this second volume embarks on the journeys of Laurence Lang, and Le Brun through Russia and other countries. Weber also delves into the criminal proceedings against the late czarewitz, the justification of the Swedish war against Russia and many more topics involving the politics and government of Russia as a country through European eyes.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317744856

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The Essential Trotsky (Routledge Revivals) by Leon Trotsky Pdf

When Lenin died and the Russian Revolution began to devour its leaders, Trotsky survived longer than most as an exile in Mexico, until his assassination in 1940. The Essential Trotsky, first published in 1963, demonstrates the significance of this innovative and radical thinker’s contribution to the Bolshevik success, the magnetism of his personality, and also a certain tragic heroism discernible throughout his life. The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk was written immediately after the events it describes, when Trotsky was attending the negotiations that extracted Russia from the First World War; The Lessons of October, an answer to his opponents in 1924, matches Lenin in power of analysis; and Stalin Falsifies History, written in 1927, presents the beginning of the distorting process by which Stalin secured his position, and defeated a range of attitudes, many more benign than his own, towards the future of the Revolution. This is a fascinating reissue that will be of value to students with an interest in early-twentieth century Russia, the Russian Revolution and the writings of Trotsky more generally.

Author : Robert Bideleux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317703068

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Communism and Development (Routledge Revivals) by Robert Bideleux Pdf

First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the diverse Communist development strategies that shaped the twentieth century. Robert Bideleux emphasises the appalling human and economic costs of the most widely adopted ‘Stalinist’ strategies of forced industrialisation and rural collectivisation. He also reconsiders the powerful arguments in favour of the most feasible and cost-effective alternatives to Stalinism, including ‘village communisms’ and ‘market socialisms’. A highly readable and challenging study, this reissue will be of particular value to students with research interests in Development Studies, East European History and Politics.

Author : Julie Fedor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136671852

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Russia and the Cult of State Security by Julie Fedor Pdf

This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, the volume argues that successive Russian regimes have sponsored a ‘cult’ of state security, whereby security organs are held up as something to be worshipped. The book approaches the history of this cult as an ongoing struggle to legitimise and sacralise the Russian state security apparatus, and to negotiate its violent and dramatic past. It explores the ways in which, during the Soviet period, this mythology sought to make the existence of the most radically intrusive and powerful secret police in history appear ‘natural’. It also documents the contemporary post-Soviet re-emergence of the cult of state security, examining the ways in which elements of the old Soviet mythology have been revised and reclaimed as the cornerstone of a new state ideology. The Russian cult of state security is of ongoing contemporary relevance, and is crucial for understanding not only the tragedies of Russia’s twentieth-century history, but also the ambiguities of Russia’s post-Soviet transition, and the current struggle to define Russia’s national identity and future development. The book examines the ways in which contemporary Russian life continues to be shaped by the legacy of Soviet attitudes to state-society relations, as expressed in the reconstituted cult of state security. It investigates the shadow which the figure of the secret policeman continues to cast over Russia today. The book will be of great interest to students of modern Russian history and politics, intelligence studies and security studies, as well as readers with an interest in the KGB and its successors.

Author : Ian Blanchard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317678014

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Russia's 'Age of Silver' (Routledge Revivals) by Ian Blanchard Pdf

First published in 1989, Russia’s ‘Age of Silver’ represents a major contribution to the history of the international economy during the eighteenth century, challenging old prejudices and establishing the importance of Russian precious-metal production. Ian Blanchard examines the nature of the Central and South America specie crisis of 1670 to 1760, and the response of European precious-metal producers. He highlights the rise of the Russian copper industry to a position of world supremacy, and the Siberian gold and silver mines to ‘old world’ supremacy. The study explains why Russia experienced little inflation and why no metal was exported: the economy acted as a sponge, absorbing the flood of coins as monetary expansion was paralleled by rapid economic growth. These developments doubled average per capita incomes over the course of the century, so that between 1788 and 1807 the average Russian enjoyed an income equivalent to that of their British counterpart. Providing a comprehensive analysis, this reissue will be of particular value to students and researchers with an interest in Russian economic history.

Author : Hanna Stähle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000420944

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Russian Church in the Digital Era by Hanna Stähle Pdf

The Russian Orthodox Church, the largest and most powerful religious institution in Russia, has become one of the central pillars of Vladimir Putin’s authoritarianism. While church attendance remains low, the religiously inspired rhetoric of traditionalism has come to dominate the mainstream political and media discourse. Has Russia abandoned its atheist past and embraced Orthodox Christianity as its new moral guide? The reality is more complex and contradictory. Digital sources provide evidence of rising domestic criticism of the Russian Orthodox Church and its leadership. This book offers a nuanced understanding of contemporary Russian Orthodoxy and its changing role in the digital era. Topics covered within this book include: • Mediatization theory; • Church reforms under Patriarch Kirill; • Church–state relations since 2009; • The Russian Orthodox Church’s media policy; • Anticlericalism vs. Church criticism; and • Religious, secular, and atheist critiques of the Church in digital media. Using contemporary case studies such as Pussy Riot's Punk Prayer, this book is a gripping read for those with an interest in media studies, digital criticism of religion, religion in the media, the role of religion in society, and the Russian Orthodox Church.

Author : Laura Siragusa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351622073

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Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia by Laura Siragusa Pdf

This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority’s heritage language, partly neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around revival movements. In addition to the more-theoretically oriented scopes, this book addresses all the actors involved in revival movements including activists, scholars and policy-makers, and opens a discussion on literacy and orality, and power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices. This study addresses issues common to language revival movements worldwide and will appeal to researchers of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, education and language policy, and culture studies.

Author : Nikolai Biryukov,Victor Sergeyev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429756603

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Russian Politics in Transition by Nikolai Biryukov,Victor Sergeyev Pdf

First published in 1997 and written by two distinguished Russian scholars, this book examines the problems and prospects of democratic transition in Russia since the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Specifically, it offers a compelling evaluation of the rise and fall of the 1990 Russian parliament. The problems of transforming what had been a regional assembly into a national parliament are analysed in the context of the failure of perestroika, the difficulties of generating pluralist politics, the strength of presidential power and the tensions between ideologies of reform, on the one hand, and the realities of economic crisis, on the other. The analysis allows them to evaluate the role of political upheaval and conflicts of legitimacy in Russian democratization. The book is divided into three sections. The first offers a theory of transition to modern democracy. This provides the framework for the second section, an account of the first parliament after the 1990 elections, its conflicts with presidential power and the reform agenda of the government and, finally, its fall. The third section examines three particular problems which were decisive in producing the crisis of Russian parliamentarianism and democratization: voting behaviour in a non-party parliamentary setting and its relationship to conflicts between legislature and executive; populism and representation; and the role of democratic values and procedures in the legislative process. Drawing on their unrivalled knowledge of issues, events and actors, Nikolai Biryukov and Victor Sergeyev gather and interpret much new evidence to explore their subject. In a path-breaking study, the authors draw on a variety of sources and traditions to produce an original theory of the problems of political stability set up by democratic transition in Russia.

Author : Marietta Stepaniants,Benjamin Forest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Identification (Religion)
ISBN : 1138259055

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Religion and Identity in Modern Russia by Marietta Stepaniants,Benjamin Forest Pdf

Focusing on the roles of Russian Orthodoxy and Islam in constituting, challenging and changing national and ethnic identities in Russia, this study takes Tsarist and Soviet legacies into account, paying special attention to the evolution of the relationship between religious teachings and political institutions through the late 19th and 20th centuries. The volume explicitly discusses and compares the role of Russia's two major religions, Orthodoxy and Islam, in forging identity in the modern era and brings an innovative blend of sociological, historical, linguistic and geographic scholarship to the problem of post-Soviet Russian identity. This comprehensive volume is suitable for courses on post-Soviet politics, Russian studies, religion and political culture.