Sari: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northern Illinois University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501783449)
This book describes the life and work of Lev Alexandrovich Tikhomirov (1852-1923), both as a leading revolutionary implicated in the assassination of Alexander II, and following a radical change in his outlook as a defender of the principle of autoc...Loe edasi...
The Russian Intelligentsia is the first single-volume history of a small but tremendously influential group of Russian intellectuals who achieved world renown in a variety of spheres. While previous accounts have addressed the history of in...Loe edasi...
An Air Mail Editor’s Pick A Spectator Book of the Year “( A) masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”—Wall Street Journal? “Wise and authoritative…As the best Russ...Loe edasi...
Sari: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northern Illinois University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501781032)
This book recounts Soviet liberal intellectuals commitment to democracy during perestroika and early post-Soviet Russia (1987-1993). Their support helped Boris Yeltsin rise and dissolve the USSR but ultimately undermined their democratic goals by c...Loe edasi...
Suffering Victory recounts the commitment of Soviet liberal intellectuals to democratic transition during the effervescent period of perestroika and in the first years of post-Soviet Russia to the rise of Boris Yeltsin and the dissolution of the USS...Loe edasi...
The Russian intelligentsia gave its name to the phenomenon of an educated opposition, and it has provoked a substantial body of Russian and Western publications. This book focuses on the intelligentsias Myth, Mission, Metamorphosis as discovered in...Loe edasi...
This is the first synthetic book-length study in English of the Ukrainian nation-building during the long nineteenth century. This is the first synthetic book-length study in English of the Ukrainian nation-building during the long nin...Loe edasi...
The Russian Intelligentsia is the first single-volume history of a small but tremendously influential group of Russian intellectuals who achieved world renown in a variety of spheres. While previous accounts have addressed the history of in...Loe edasi...
Gregory Afinogenov explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. He argues that the approaches the empire took are closely related to its leaders’ perception of Russia’s place in the world. Espionage gave way to public-facing,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jul-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253066121)
Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference explores how Russian Jewish writers and political activists such as Vladimir Jabotinsky turned to race as an operational concept in the late imperial politics of the Russian Empire.Building...Loe edasi...
Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference explores how Russian Jewish writers and political activists such as Vladimir Jabotinsky turned to race as an operational concept in the late imperial politics of the Russian Empire. Building on the latest...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-May-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674971806)
A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literat...Loe edasi...
Andrew M. Drozd, Melissa L. Miller, Brendan G. Mooney, Stephen M. Woodburn, Brendan G. Mooney, James Goodwin, Victoria Thorstensson, Stephen M. Woodburn, Charles Michael Byrd, Andrew M. Drozd...
This book examines the reception of Darwin’s books and ideas in Russia as a cultural phenomenon, involving language, literature, science, philosophy, and humor. Diverse writers reveal the impact of the Darwinian moment on Russian minds and t...Loe edasi...
This is the first synthetic book-length study in English of the Ukrainian nation-building during the long nineteenth century. The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Ukraine is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and s...Loe edasi...
This provocative book addresses the ideological and political crisis of the Western left, and presents a radical critique of the current state of the Western left which puts discourse above class interest and politics of diversity above politics o...Loe edasi...
