The Russian S World

Author : Aliaksei Kazharski
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633862865

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Eurasian Integration and the Russian World by Aliaksei Kazharski Pdf

This volume examines Russian discourses of regionalism as a source of identity construction practices for the country's political and intellectual establishment. The overall purpose of the monograph is to demonstrate that, contrary to some assumptions, the transition trajectory of post-Soviet Russia has not been towards a liberal democratic nation state that is set to emulate Western political and normative standards. Instead, its foreign policy discourses have been constructing Russia as a supranational community which transcends Russia's current legally established borders. The study undertakes a systematic and comprehensive survey of Russian official (authorities) and semi-official (establishment affiliated think tanks) discourse for a period of seven years between 2007 and 2013. This exercise demonstrates how Russia is being constructed as a supranational entity through its discourses of cultural and economic regionalism. These discourses associate closely with the political project of Eurasian economic integration and the "Russian world" and "Russian civilization" doctrines. Both ideologies, the geoeconomic and culturalist, have gained prominence in the post-Crimean environment. The analysis tracks down how these identitary concepts crystallized in Russia's foreign policies discourses beginning from Vladimir Putin's second term in power.

Author : Chaim Harry Farber
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595411245

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Memories of World War II in the Russian Army by Chaim Harry Farber Pdf

Living in a small Polish town, Chaim (Harry) Farber was surrounded by family, friends, education and industry. But on September 1, 1939, everything changed, as German and Russian forces invaded Poland, splitting it between them. A larger shock occurred two years later when the Nazis, breaching their agreement with Russia, stormed the rest of Poland. Suddenly Chaim Farber found himself whisked into the Russian army. Working diligently-and being cautious with his words-Chaim was assigned to manage a central food warehouse for the army's battalions. Soon his responsibility grew, his status increased and he began travelling on assignment for the Russian Defense Department. Chaim made frequent connections, travelled throughout the vast Russian expanse, and, despite his feelings toward the Communist regime, developed respect for the country's people and its army. As the war concluded, with few of his family having eluded the Nazi terrors, Chaim risked a perilous border crossing to freedom, eventually reaching Canada, where he joined his sister and her husband. From there, relying on determination, guts and instinct, Harry started a building company that continues to thrive. From his home in Toronto, serving the legacy of a family long vanished but never forgotten, Chaim Farber now commits his story to paper more than six decades after having lived it. It is a story written not for enjoyment or entertainment, but for knowledge, and for wisdom, and out of love.

Author : Edward Frederick Willis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Russians
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Herbert Hoover and the Russian Prisoners of World War I by Edward Frederick Willis Pdf

Author : Genevra Gerhart
Publisher : Slavica Publishers
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015054265601

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The Russian's World by Genevra Gerhart Pdf

Author : Sean McMeekin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674072336

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The Russian Origins of the First World War by Sean McMeekin Pdf

The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notions of the war’s beginning as either a Germano-Austrian preemptive strike or a “tragedy of miscalculation.” Instead, he proposes that the key to the outbreak of violence lies in St. Petersburg. It was Russian statesmen who unleashed the war through conscious policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East. Unlike their civilian counterparts in Berlin, who would have preferred to localize the Austro-Serbian conflict, Russian leaders desired a more general war so long as British participation was assured. The war of 1914 was launched at a propitious moment for harnessing the might of Britain and France to neutralize the German threat to Russia’s goal: partitioning the Ottoman Empire to ensure control of the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Nearly a century has passed since the guns fell silent on the western front. But in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire, World War I smolders still. Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Jews, and other regional antagonists continue fighting over the last scraps of the Ottoman inheritance. As we seek to make sense of these conflicts, McMeekin’s powerful exposé of Russia’s aims in the First World War will illuminate our understanding of the twentieth century.

Author : Jean-Louis Cohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300248159

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Building a new New World by Jean-Louis Cohen Pdf

An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R. Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful concept of “Amerikanizm” and its impact on Russia’s built environment from early czarist interest in Revolutionary America, through the spectacular World’s Fairs of the 19th century, to department stores, skyscrapers, and factories built in Russia using American methods during the 20th century. Visions of America also captivated the Russian avant-garde, from El Lissitzky to Moisei Ginzburg, and Cohen explores the ongoing artistic dialogue maintained between the two countries at the mid-century and in the late Soviet era, following a period of strategic competition. This first major study of Amerikanizm in the architecture of Russia makes a timely contribution to our understanding of modern architecture and its broader geopolitics.

Author : Ефим Пивовар
Publisher : Litres
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9785043290946

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The World of Russian emigres in the late XX – early XXI centuries by Ефим Пивовар Pdf

For the first time in the national historiography, an attempt is made to give a comprehensive analysis of the Russian emigres community as the most important part of the Russian world at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, as a holistic phenomenon of modern history.Through a wide range of sources and scientific literature, the author of the book, Associate Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Efim Pivovar, considers plots that are a key to characterizing his chosen theme: interrelation of the world of Russian emigres; the national historical consciousness; state policy of the Russian Federation towards emigres; intellectual dialogue between Russia and the Russian world; social portrait of a man of the Russian world; the Russian emigres civilization model and its development prospects.В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет книги.

Author : Edyta M. Bojanowska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 0674985729

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A World of Empires by Edyta M. Bojanowska Pdf

Edyta Bojanowska uses Ivan Goncharov's gripping travelogue--a bestseller in nineteenth-century Russia--as a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Slow to be integrated into the standard narrative on European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an assertive empire eager to emulate European powers and determined to define Russia against them.--

Author : Jakub M. Godzimirski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317060369

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Russian Energy in a Changing World by Jakub M. Godzimirski Pdf

For a long time Russia’s position as a key global energy player has enhanced Moscow’s international economic and political influence whilst causing concern amongst other states fearful of becoming too dependent on Russia as an energy supplier. The Global Financial Crisis shook this established image of Russia as an indispensable energy superpower, immune to negative external influences and revealed the full extent of Russia’s dependence on oil and gas for economic and political influence. This led to calls from within the country for a new approach where energy resources were no longer regarded wholly as an asset, but also a potential curse resulting in an over reliance on one sector thwarting modernization of the economy and the country as a whole. In this fascinating and timely volume leading Russian and Western scholars examine various aspects of Russian energy policy and the opportunities and constraints that influence the choices made by the country’s energy decision makers. Contributors focus on Russia’s energy relations with the rest of the world alongside internal debates about the need for diversification and modernisation in a changing economy, country and world system where overdependence on energy commodities has become a key concern for customer and supplier alike.

Author : Danis Garaev
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000642247

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Jihadism in the Russian-Speaking World by Danis Garaev Pdf

This book contends that the discourses of jihadism in Russia's North Caucasus, and their offshoots in other parts of the Russian Federation, are not just reflections of jihadi ideologies that came from abroad, rather that post-Soviet jihadism is a phenomenon best understood when placed in the broader cultural environment in which it emerged, an environment which comprises the North Caucasus, the whole of Russia, and beyond. It examines how post-Soviet jihadism is also part of global processes, in this case, global jihadism, explores how post-Soviet jihadism bears the imprint of the preceding Soviet context especially in terms of symbols, discursive tools, interpretational frameworks, and dissemination strategies, and discusses how, ironically, Russian-speaking jihadism is an expansionist idea for uniting all Russian regions on a supra-ethnic principle, but an idea that was not born in Moscow or St. Petersburg. Overall, the book demonstrates that Russian-speaking jihadism is a completely new ideology, which nevertheless has its origins in the intellectual and cultural heritage of the Soviet era and in the broader trends of post-Soviet society and culture.

Author : Martin Marix Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135969851

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American Voices of World War I by Martin Marix Evans Pdf

Using original documents from the U.S. Army Military History Institute (including extracts from letters and diaries of serving soldiers, as well as from official reports and papers), this book recalls the experiences of Americans who fought in the First World War. Individual chapters cover different periods, from Enlistment to Victory, in a chronological fashion. The book also features topics such as weaponry, medical services and entertainment.

Author : Viktor Jakupec,Max Kelly,John McKay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040027158

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Foreign Aid in a World in Crisis by Viktor Jakupec,Max Kelly,John McKay Pdf

This book investigates the geopoliticisation of foreign aid in recent years, against a background of global overarching crises such as climate change, conflict, Covid-19, economic crisis, energy shortages and migration. Foreign aid has historically been understood as assisting both with the development objectives of the recipients and with the trade and geopolitical interests of the donors. In the first decades of the 21st century, however, this balance has been shifted by a series of complex global challenges. This book argues that donors have now moved towards framing aid as a geopolitical instrument, wherein aid can be given or withheld based on power or political intent, thus imposing the donor’s specific values and norms. This book provides an in-depth analysis of this weaponisation of foreign aid within a framework of global disruption and ultimately concludes that the world is at a tipping point towards a new socio-political world order. Asking important questions about the power dynamics at play within the aid sector, this book will be an important read for researchers across development studies, political science, international relations and global affairs.

Author : Andrew Boyd
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780415106719

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An Atlas of World Affairs by Andrew Boyd Pdf

An Atlas of World Affairs describes the people, factions and events that have shaped the modern world from the Second World War to the present day. This tenth edition of An Atlas of World Affairs has been thoroughly revised and updated to place international issues and conflicts in their most recent geographical contexts through the integration of over one hundred maps. Critical new issues are covered including: the break-up of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia; the expansion of the European Union; the reshaping of South Africa; and the pressing environmental concerns faced by many new sovereign states.

Author : Andrew Monaghan
Publisher : Russian Strategy and Power
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1526164620

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Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition by Andrew Monaghan Pdf

This book offers a nuanced and detailed examination of two of the most important current debates about contemporary Russia's international activity: is Moscow acting strategically or opportunistically, and should this be understood in regional or global terms? The book addresses core themes of Russian activity - military, energy and economic - but it offers an unusual multi-disciplinary analysis to these themes. Monaghan incorporates both regional and thematic specialist expertise to give a fresh perspective to each of these core themes. Underpinned by detailed analyses of the revolution in Russian geospatial capabilities and the establishment of a strategic planning foundation, the book includes chapters on military and maritime strategies, energy security and economic diversification and influence. This serves to highlight the connections between military and economic interests that shape and drive Russian strategy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : PURD:32754075978118

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Russian Combat Methods in World War II by Anonim Pdf