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Book The Bolsheviks in Power

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  • Author : Alexander Rabinowitch
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0253220424
  • Pages : 518 pages

Download or read book The Bolsheviks in Power written by Alexander Rabinowitch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to newly opened archives has allowed Alexander Rabinowitch to substantially rewrite the history of how the Bolsheviks consolidated their power in Russia. Focusing on the first year of Soviet rule in St Petersburg, he shows how state organs evolved in the face of repeated crises.

Book Russia s Home Front in War and Revolution  1914 22

Download or read book Russia s Home Front in War and Revolution 1914 22 written by Sarah Badcock and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Origins of the Russian Civil War

Download or read book The Origins of the Russian Civil War written by Geoffrey Swain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the turbulent months from February 1917 to November 1918, Geoffrey Swain explores the origins of the Civil War against the wider background of revolutionary Russia. He examines the aims of the anti-Bolshevik insurgents themselves; but he also shows how far the fear of civil war governed the action of the Provisional Government, and even the plans of the Bolsheviks. If the war itself can seem a fairly straightforward line-up of revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries, this study reveals how complex were the motives of the people who precipitated it.

Book Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution  1914 1921

Download or read book Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914 1921 written by Edward Acton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by 46 historians reflect the impact of the fall of the Soviet Union on the study of the revolution that birthed it, including better access to archives and new opportunities for collaborations between Russian and other specialists. They cover the revolution as event; actors and the question of agency; parties, movements, and ideologies; institutions and institutional cultures; social groups, identities, cultures, and the question of consciousness; economic issues and problems of everyday life; and nationality and regional questions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Red Petrograd

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  • Author : S. A. Smith
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9780521316187
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Red Petrograd written by S. A. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with problem of workers' control in Russia

Book Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel

Download or read book Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel written by Hunt, et al and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using various narrative approaches and methodologies, an international team of forty-four Johannine scholars here offers probing essays related to individual characters and group characters in the Gospel of John. These essays present fresh perspectives on characters who play a major role in the Gospel (Peter, Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, Thomas, and many others), but they also examine characters who have never before been the focus of narrative analysis (the men of the Samaritan woman, the boy with the loaves and fishes, Barabbas, and more). Taken together, the essays shed new light on how complex and nuanced many of these characters are, even as they stand in the shadow of Jesus. Readers of this volume will be challenged to consider the Gospel of John anew.

Book Prelude to Revolution

Download or read book Prelude to Revolution written by Alexander Rabinowitch and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memoirs of a British Agent

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  • Author : R. H. Bruce Lockhart
  • Publisher : Frontline Books
  • Release : 2011-04-30
  • ISBN : 1848326297
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Memoirs of a British Agent written by R. H. Bruce Lockhart and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published in 1932, this memoir was an immediate classic, both as a unique eyewitness account of Revolutionary Russia and as one man’s story of struggle, and tragedy set against the background of great events. Aged 25, Lockhart became the British Vice-Consul to Moscow in 1912. With revolution in the air, it was dangerous, decadent posting. The 'Boy Ambassador' became an eyewitness to pivotal events and in 1918 was charged with establishing a diplomatic understanding with the Bolsheviks, to ensure that Russia remained in the war against Germany. It was a precarious mission: Whitehall could not be seen support revolutionaries; Lockhart grew wary of his masters’ secret machinations; while Lenin and Trotsky's cordial relations with the British agent never quite dispelled their mistrust of the nation he represented. When Lockhart met Moura Budberg, who became the great love of his life, he was in an increasingly vulnerable position. In September 1918 he would be falsely accused of a counter-revolutionary plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks, and sent to the Loubianka. His account even inspired a Hollywood movie. From his evocative descriptions of revolutionary Moscow, where the champagne flowed as the bourgeoisie trembled, to his audiences with Trotsky and his brushes with death, this is a vivid, unique memoir.

Book For to Speke Frenche Trewely

Download or read book For to Speke Frenche Trewely written by Douglas A. Kibbee and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first grammatical descriptions of the French language were produced in England, several centuries before the first grammar written in French (but also several centuries after the Norman Conquest). This book describes the status of French in England during the period from the marriage of Emma of Normandy to thelred (1004) to the fixing of a (relatively) standard pedagogical scheme for the teaching of French of English speakers (ca. 1600). During this period French passed from a native language to a second language, became the official language of the legal profession, and ultimately fell back to a position of social accomplishment. At the same time, different pedagogical and descriptive traditions developed to meet these various needs. Here Kibbee traces the interaction of cultural, intellectual, social and technological history with the elaboration of a grammatical tradition. The book includes a bibliography and indexes of names, titles and subjects.

Book Anti Judaism and the Fourth Gospel

Download or read book Anti Judaism and the Fourth Gospel written by Reimund Bieringer and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of essays from the Leuven Conference on the anti-Judaism of the fourth gospel, this volume includes essays from the world's best Johannine scholars.

Book Ukrainian Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective

Download or read book Ukrainian Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective written by Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and published by CIUS Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Feminists Despite Themselves

Download or read book Feminists Despite Themselves written by Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak and published by CIUS Press. This book was released on 1988-10-12 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the women's movement in Ukraine.

Book The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple

Download or read book The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple written by Richard Bauckham and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading New Testament scholar explores key issues in the Gospel of John.

Book Translating Cultures

Download or read book Translating Cultures written by David Katan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 21st century gets into stride so does the call for a discipline combining culture and translation. This second edition of Translating Cultures retains its original aim of putting some rigour and coherence into these fashionable words and lays the foundation for such a discipline. This edition has not only been thoroughly revised, but it has also been expanded. In particular, a new chapter has been added which focuses specifically on training translators for translational and intercultural competencies. The core of the book provides a model for teaching culture to translators, interpreters and other mediators. It introduces the reader to current understanding about culture and aims to raise awareness of the fundamental role of culture in constructing, perceiving and translating reality. Culture is perceived throughout as a system for orienting experience, and a basic presupposition is that the organization of experience is not 'reality', but rather a simplified model and a 'distortion' which varies from culture to culture. Each culture acts as a frame within which external signs or 'reality' are interpreted. The approach is interdisciplinary, taking ideas from contemporary translation theory, anthropology, Bateson's logical typing and metamessage theories, Bandler and Grinder's NLP meta-model theory, and Hallidayan functional grammar. Authentic texts and translations are offered to illustrate the various strategies that a cultural mediator can adopt in order to make the different cultural frames he or she is mediating between more explicit.

Book Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine  1932 1933

Download or read book Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine 1932 1933 written by United States. Commission on the Ukraine Famine and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Priority of John

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  • Author : John A. T. Robinson
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2011-03-01
  • ISBN : 1610971027
  • Pages : 461 pages

Download or read book The Priority of John written by John A. T. Robinson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been the fate of many books on John to be left unfinished, for its interpretation naturally forms the crowning of a lifetime. I have myself been intending to write a book on the Fourth Gospel since the 'fifties, before I broke off (reluctantly) to be Bishop of Woolwich, though I am grateful now that I did not produce it prematurely at that time. It means however that I shall be compelled to refer to and often recapitulate material directly or indirectly related to the Johannine literature, which I have written over the years (some of it indeed while I was bishop). Many scholars in fact, if not most now, think that the author of the Gospel himself never lived to finish it and have seen the work as the product of numerous hands and redactors. As will become clear, I prefer to believe that the ancient testimony of the church is correct that John wrote it 'while still in the body' and that its roughnesses, self-corrections and failures of connection, real or imagined, are the result of its not having been smoothly or finally edited. If so I am in good company. At any rate who could wish for a better last testimony from his friends than that 'his witness is true' (John 21.24)? In other words, he got it right--historically and theologically. --from the Introduction At the time of his death in December 1983, John Robinson had completed the text of the book on which his 1984 Bampton lectures were to be based, so that it is possible to see the full details of his extremely controversial argument that the Gospel of John was the first Gospel to be written. Dr. Robinson himself once described the dawning of his conviction that this was the case as a 'Damascus Road experience', and his presentation of the evidence is made with all the customary vigor with which he would argue for something in which he deeply believed. The objections which need to be overcome to stand on its head what has long been one of the fundamental assumptions of New Testament scholarship are substantial, but here once again Dr. Robinson shows that so much of what is taken as established fact in that area is no more than preference and presumption. Certainly he will provoke rethinking on a whole series of topics, from the chronology of Jesus' ministry to the nature of his teaching. As The Listener said of the equally controversial Redating the New Testament: The greatest pleasure Dr. Robinson gives is purely intellectual. His book is a prodigious virtuoso exercise in inductive reasoning and an object lesson in the nature of historical argument and historical knowledge. This sequel equals, if not excels, its predecessor in those respects and is a fitting tribute to a brilliant New Testament scholar. The manuscript was prepared for publication by Dr. Chip Coakley, Dr Robinson's pupil, now Lecturer in Religious Studies in the University of Lancaster.

Book Identifications

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  • Author : University of Alberta. Department of English
  • Publisher : Edmonton, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Identifications written by University of Alberta. Department of English and published by Edmonton, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. This book was released on 1982 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: