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Book Russian Dissenters

Download or read book Russian Dissenters written by Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russian Dissenters  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Russian Dissenters Classic Reprint written by F. C. Conybeare and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Russian Dissenters Uzov infers that Dissent flourished just the same, no matter whether the Government was strict or lenient; and that it did so proved that it is not engendered by temporary or transient causes, but is founded on deep cravings and satisfies daily spiritual needs of individuals. Yet neither Russian administration, nor Russian polite society understands thoroughly what sort of thing Dissent is; 4 and this not from want of facts accumulated by students, but from their onesidedness. By preference they have di rected their attention to the ceremonial peculiarities which distinguish dissent from orthodoxy, without remarking, nay rather, without wishing to remark, that the dissenters' out look is framed on quite other principles than those which underlie our present social structure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Russian Dissenters

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  • Author : F. C. Conybeare
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2015-06-14
  • ISBN : 9781330295557
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Russian Dissenters written by F. C. Conybeare and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Russian Dissenters This work was begun in 1914 and completed nearly as it stands early in 1917, about the time when the Russian Revolution began. It is too early yet to trace the fortunes of the Russian sects during this latest period, for the contradictory news of the struggle is not to be trusted; and few, if any, know what is really happening or has happened in unhappy Russia. Since, however, the future is largely moulded by the past, I trust that my work may be of some use to those who sincerely desire to understand and trace out the springs of the Revolution. It is not a work of original research. I have only read a number of Russian authorities and freely exploited them. I have especially used the History of the Russian Raskol by Ivanovski (two volumes, Kazan, 1895 and 1897). He was professor of the subject in the Kazan Seminary between 1880 and 1895. He tries to be fair, and in the main succeeds in being so. Subbotin, indeed, in a letter to Pobedonostzev, Procurator of the Holy Synod, who had consulted him about the best manuals on the subject, wrote slightingly of the work; but I think unfairly, for the only concrete faults he finds with it are, first, that the author allowed himself to use the phrase; 'the historical Christ,' which had to his ears a rationalist ring; and secondly, that he devoted too little space to the Moscow Synods of 1654 to 1667. Another Russian work I have transferred almost bodily to my pages. This is the extremely rare brochure of I. Uzov or Yusov, Russkie Dissidenty, St. Petersburg, 1881. This is a work of impartial and independent criticism, and valuable for its numerous and well chosen citations from earlier works on the subject. In many cases where I have identified these citations I have found them accurate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Russian Dissenters

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  • Author : Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-05-19
  • ISBN : 9781357316976
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Russian Dissenters written by Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissidents among Dissidents

Download or read book Dissidents among Dissidents written by Ilya Budraitskis and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have the fall of the USSR and the long dominance of Putin reshaped Russian politics and culture? Ilya Budraitskis, one of the country's most prominent leftist political commentators, explores the strange fusion of free-market ideology and postmodern nationalism that now prevails in Russia, and describes the post-Soviet evolution of its left. He incisively describes the twists and contradictions of the Kremlin's geopolitical fantasies, which blend up-to-date references to "information wars" with nostalgic celebrations of the tsars of Muscovy. Despite the revival of aggressive Cold War rhetoric, he argues, the Putin regime takes its bearings not from any Soviet inheritance, but from reactionary thinkers such as the White émigré Ivan Ilyin. Budraitskis makes an invaluable contribution by reconstructing the forgotten history of the USSR's dissident left, mapping an entire alternative tradition of heterodox Marxist and socialist thought from Khrushchev's Thaw to Gorbachev's perestroika. Doubly outsiders, within an intelligentsia dominated by liberal humanists, they offer a potential way out of the impasse between condemnations of the entire Soviet era and blanket nostalgia for Communist Party rule--suggesting new paths for the left to explore.

Book Dissident for Life

Download or read book Dissident for Life written by Koenraad De Wolf and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping book tells the largely unknown story of longtime Russian dissident Alexander Ogorodnikov -- from Communist youth to religious dissident, in the Gulag and back again. Ogorodnikov's courage has touched people from every walk of life, including world leaders such as Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher. In the 1970s Ogorodnikov performed a feat without precedent in the Soviet Union: he organized thousands of Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christians in an underground group called the Christian Seminar. When the KGB gave him the option to leave the Soviet Union rather than face the Gulag, he firmly declined because he wanted to change "his" Russia from the inside out. His willingness to sacrifice himself and be imprisoned meant leaving behind his wife and newborn child. Ogorodnikov spent nine years in the Gulag, barely surviving the horrors he encountered there. Despite KGB harassment and persecution after his release, he refused to compromise his convictions and went on to found the first free school in the Soviet Union, the first soup kitchen, and the first private shelter for orphans, among other accomplishments. Today this man continues to carry on his struggle against government detainments and atrocities, often alone. Readers will be amazed and inspired by Koenraad De Wolf's authoritative account of Ogorodnikov's life and work.

Book Uncensored Russia  Protest and Dissent in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Uncensored Russia Protest and Dissent in the Soviet Union written by Peter Reddaway and published by New York : American Heritage Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conscience  Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia

Download or read book Conscience Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia written by Philip Boobbyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing the political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Soviet Russia, this book provides a useful perspective of Putin’s Russia. Focusing on the ethics in Soviet Russia, it explores the history of moral thinking amongst dissidents, and examines the ethical assumptions of the perestroika era.

Book The Legacy of Soviet Dissent

Download or read book The Legacy of Soviet Dissent written by Robert Horvath and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1970s, dissidents like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn dominated Western perceptions of the USSR, but were then quickly forgotten, as Gorbachev's reformers monopolised the spotlight. This book restores the dissidents to their rightful place in Russian history. Using a vast array of samizdat and published sources, it shows how ideas formulated in the dissident milieu clashed with the original programme of perestroika, and shaped the course of democratisation in post-Soviet Russia. Some of these ideas - such the dissidents' preoccupation with glasnost and legality, and their critique of revolutionary violence - became part of the agenda of Russia's democratic movement. But this book also demonstrates that dissidents played a crucial role in the rise of the new Russian radical nationalism. Both the friends and foes of Russian democracy have a dissident lineage.

Book State of Madness

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  • Author : Rebecca Reich
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-03-13
  • ISBN : 1609092333
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book State of Madness written by Rebecca Reich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric discourse to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. Situating literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power, this bold interdisciplinary study will appeal to literary specialists; historians of culture, science, and medicine; and scholars and students of the Soviet Union and its legacy for Russia today.

Book Russian Dissenters

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  • Author : F. C. Conybeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780758143624
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Russian Dissenters written by F. C. Conybeare and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old Believers

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  • Author : Irina Paert
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780719063220
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Old Believers written by Irina Paert and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1960s, American literature has been revitalised by the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros and Maxine Hong Kingston. An introduction to the study of ethnic American fictions organised into four sections, each written by a specialist in the fields of African American, Asian American, Chicano/a and native American literature. Writers are discussed in their cultural/political contexts and literary traditions (rather than as exceptions or as individuals, or on a generic basis). The book highlights common themes in ethnic writing as well as specificities, and has extensive suggestions for further reading as well as a critical introduction regarding the concept of 'ethnic writing'. No competing titles - there are no textbooks, no beginners' books nor any systematised combination of ethnic fictions such as this - only edited collections on each area.

Book Kicking the Kremlin

Download or read book Kicking the Kremlin written by Marc Bennetts and published by Oneworld. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the wave of anti-Putin sentiment that has surged in Russia since his reelection in 2011, including interviews with members of the infamous Pussy Riot, top opposition leaders, and Kremlin insiders. -- Provided by publisher.

Book The Universe Behind Barbed Wire

Download or read book The Universe Behind Barbed Wire written by Miroslav Marinovič and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile.

Book Escape from Paradise

Download or read book Escape from Paradise written by Alexander Shatravka and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the memoir of a Soviet dissident who was sent to a psychiatric hospital and escaped to the West"--

Book Soviet Dissent

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  • Author : Ludmilla Alexeyeva
  • Publisher : Wesleyan
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780819561763
  • Pages : 521 pages

Download or read book Soviet Dissent written by Ludmilla Alexeyeva and published by Wesleyan. This book was released on 1987 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the struggles of individuals and organizations for civil rights in the Soviet Union

Book On Dissidents and Madness

Download or read book On Dissidents and Madness written by Robert van Voren and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains the memoirs of Robert van Voren covering the period 1977-2008 and provides unique insights into the dissident movement in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, both inside the country and abroad. As a result of his close friendship with many of the leading dissidents and his dozens of trips to the USSR as a courier, he had intimate knowledge of the ins and outs of the dissident movement and participated in many of the campaigns to obtain the release of Soviet political prisoners. In the late 1980s he became involved in building a humane and ethical practice of psychiatry in Eastern Europe and the (ex-) USSR, based on respect for the human rights of persons with mental illness. The book describes the dissident movement and many of the people who formed it, mental health reformers in Eastern Europe and the response of the Western psychiatric community, the battle with the World Psychiatric Association over Soviet, and later, Chinese political abuse of psychiatry, his contacts with former KGB officers and problems with the KGB's successor organization, the FSB. It also vividly describes the emotional effects of serving as a courier for the dissident movement, the fear of arrest, the pain of seeing friends disappear for many years into camps and prisons, sometimes never to return.