The Russian Experiment

Author : Holly Ice
Publisher : Almond Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1988074002

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The Russian Sleep Experiment by Holly Ice Pdf

Four political prisoners living in a 1940s Siberian POW camp volunteer to be Subjects in a Soviet Military experiment. They are promised freedom in exchange for completing the exercise. In return they must endure 30 days without sleep, fuelled by Gas 76-IA. The longer the experimentees endure insomnia, the more they deteriorate. Words and pleasantries break down until they turn on each other. Researchers look on, neutral, and take notes for the super soldier applications possible with this new, wonder drug. One researcher, Luka, stands alone in believing the experiment needs to be stopped before irreversible damage is done but is he too late? "The Subjects no longer want the Gas switched off..." Illustrations by award-winning graphic artist Daniel Tyka.

Author : Robert Service
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0674021088

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Russia by Robert Service Pdf

The first history of modern Russia from 1991 to the present day by one of the leading historians of the 20th century USSR and Russia. In 1991, in a huge experiment with a people and in a state of euphoria, Boris Yeltsin abolished the USSR and recreated the Russian nation. At the point of its declaration is was in a state of economic and social disarray and yet there were high hopes. Hopes which have subsequently been dashed. Robert Service brings to bear his vast knowledge of the people and the country to put the recent upheavals into context and he shows that not everything changed for the worst 1991. The Gorbachev years have allowed the Russian people to give a priority to living a private life and shutting the door on the state. They could think what they liked. The could enjoy intellectual and religious freedom, and indulge in recreations their income would allow. Gays and Lesbians could come 'out'. The Youth culture could finally be loosed from contraints. This is a broad political, social and cultural history of one of the newest nations ever to be formed.

Author : Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0195340558

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The Soviet Experiment by Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

Focusing on the eras of Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev, and Yeltsin, a multi-layered account of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union chronicles and analyzes the Soviet experiment from the tsar to the first president of the Russian republic. UP.

Author : Jeremy Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1988091381

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The Sleep Experiment by Jeremy Bates Pdf

From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes the second book in the all-new WORLD'S SCARIEST LEGENDS series. In 1954, at the start of the Cold War, the Soviet military offered four political prisoners their freedom if they participated in an experiment requiring them to remain awake for fourteen days while under the influence of a powerful stimulant gas. The prisoners ultimately reverted to murder, self-mutilation, and madness. None survived. In 2018, Dr. Roy Wallis, an esteemed psychology professor at UC Berkeley, is attempting to recreate the same experiment during the summer break in a soon-to-be demolished building on campus. He and two student assistants share an eight-hour rotational schedule to observe their young Australian test subjects around the clock. What begins innocently enough, however, morphs into a nightmare beyond description that no one could have imagined--with, perhaps, the exception of Dr. Roy Wallis himself.

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher : Ayer Company Pub
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Science
ISBN : 0405066430

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The Contempt of Freedom by Michael Polanyi Pdf

Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1973-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521200415

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The Russian Constitutional Experiment by Geoffrey A. Hosking Pdf

Author : Ronald Suny
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788730747

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Red Flag Wounded by Ronald Suny Pdf

Tracking the degeneration of the Russian Revolution Red Flag Wounded brings together essays covering the controversies and debates over the fraught history of the Soviet Union from the revolution to its disintegration. Those monumental years were marked not only by violence, mass killing, and the brutal overturning of a peasant society but also by the modernisation and industrialisation of the largest country in the world, the victory over fascism, and the slow recovery of society after the nightmare of Stalinism. Ronald Grigor Suny is one of the most prominent experts on the revolution, the fate of the non-Russian peoples of the Soviet empire, and the twists and turns of Western historiography of the Soviet experience. As a biographer of Stalin and a long-time commentator on Russian and Soviet affairs, he brings novel insights to a history that has been misunderstood and deliberately distorted in the public sphere. For a fresh look at a story that affects our world today, this is the place to begin.

Author : Camilla Gray,Marian Burleigh-Motley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:749000057

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The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922 by Camilla Gray,Marian Burleigh-Motley Pdf

Author : Michael David-Fox
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199794577

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Showcasing the Great Experiment by Michael David-Fox Pdf

Showcasing the Great Experiment provides the most far-reaching account of Soviet methods of cultural diplomacy innovated to influence Western intellectuals and foreign visitors. Probing the declassified records of agencies charged with crafting the international image of communism, it reinterprets one of the great cross-cultural and trans-ideological encounters of the twentieth century.

Author : Terence Emmons,Wayne S. Vucinich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521234160

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The Zemstvo in Russia by Terence Emmons,Wayne S. Vucinich Pdf

The essays in this 1982 volume result from a conference held at Stanford University in 1978, assembled to assess the overall character and significance of the prerevolutionary Russian experiment with the principle and practice of local self-government, the zemstvo, over half of its existence, 1864-1918. The unifying theme of the collection is the rejection of the liberal myth of the zemstvo as an instrument of social integration. The chapters focus on the substantive elements of conflict and tension that existed within the zemstvos, especially between the institutions' two principal groups: the landed gentry, who dominated the zemstvo, and the peasants, who constituted the majority of the population and were intended to the beneficiaries of most of the economic and cultural programs, yet had little part in their formation. Based on the contributors' extensive knowledge of their respective subjects, many of them provide information from previously unpublished materials in Soviet and American archives.

Author : Eric Lee
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786990952

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The Experiment by Eric Lee Pdf

For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very idea of socialism. The experience of Georgia, which declared its independence from Russia in 1918, tells a different story. In this riveting history, Eric Lee explores the little-known saga of the country’s experiment in democratic socialism, detailing the epic, turbulent events of this forgotten chapter in revolutionary history. Along the way, we are introduced to a remarkable cast of characters – among them the men and women who strove for a more inclusive vision of socialism that featured multi-party elections, freedom of speech and assembly, a free press and a civil society grounded in trade unions and cooperatives. Though the Georgian Democratic Republic lasted for just three years before it was brutally crushed on the orders of Stalin, it was able to offer, however briefly, a glimpse of a more humane alternative to the Soviet reality that was to come.

Author : Dominic Erdozain
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501757693

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The Dangerous God by Dominic Erdozain Pdf

At the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and spiritual mastery had roots deeper than the deficiencies of the Soviet leadership or the chaos of a "command" economy. Beneath the rhetoric of scientific communism was a culture of intellectual and cultural dissidence, which may be regarded as the "prehistory of perestroika." This volume explores the contribution of Christian thought and belief to this culture of dissent and survival, showing how religious and secular streams of resistance joined in an unexpected and powerful partnership. The essays in The Dangerous God seek to shed light on the dynamic and subversive capacities of religious faith in a context of brutal oppression, while acknowledging the often-collusive relationship between clerical elites and the Soviet authorities. Against the Marxist notion of the "ideological" function of religion, the authors set the example of people for whom faith was more than an opiate; against an enduring mythology of secularization, they propose the centrality of religious faith in the intellectual, political, and cultural life of the late modern era. This volume will appeal to specialists on religion in Soviet history as well as those interested in the history of religion under totalitarian regimes.

Author : Abbott Gleason,Peter Kenez,Richard Stites
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0253205131

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Bolshevik Culture by Abbott Gleason,Peter Kenez,Richard Stites Pdf

This book focuses on the interaction between the emerging political and cultural policies of the Soviet regime and the deeply held traditional values of the worker and peasant masses.

Author : Vladimir Feshchenko
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004526303

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Russian and American Poetry of Experiment by Vladimir Feshchenko Pdf

An experiment with language. Is it an object cultivated in poetic laboratories where entry is locked for mere mortals? And what do language scholars think about it? Specialists in language and literature studies interested in linguistic innovation and experimental poetry will find answers to these questions in Vladimir Feshchenko’s book. The study investigates various strategies of radical linguistic creativity in Russian and American experimental writing of the 20th century and explores cases of contemporary ‘language-oriented’ and ‘trans-language’ poetry. It is a comparative examination of two national avant-garde cultures, but also a juxtaposition of the relationships that Russian and American avant-garde poetics had with linguistic ideas of their times. The monograph may serve as a wonderful introduction to the entire field of ‘linguistic poetics of the avant-garde’.

Author : Vladimir Tismaneanu,Jordan Luber
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633864067

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One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments by Vladimir Tismaneanu,Jordan Luber Pdf

Why has communism’s humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this collective volume address this urgent question covering the one hundred years since Lenin’s coup brought the first communist regime to power in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 1917. The first part of the volume is dedicated to the varieties of communist fantasies of salvation, and the remaining three consider how communist experiments over many different times and regions attempted to manage economics, politics, as well as society and culture. Although each communist project was adapted to the situation of the country where it operated, the studies in this volume find that because of its ideological nature, communism had a consistent penchant for totalitarianism in all of its manifestations. This book is also concerned with the future. As the world witnesses a new wave of ideological authoritarianism and collectivistic projects, the authors of the nineteen essays suggest lessons from their analyses of communism’s past to help better resist totalitarian projects in the future.