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Book The Spirit of Change  Russia in Revolution

Download or read book The Spirit of Change Russia in Revolution written by Margot Morcombe and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spirit of Change Series encourages students and teachers to engage in an inquiry-based study of documents and illustrations. These comprehensive texts provide a plethora of primary and secondary sources, sometimes of a conflicting nature, which guide students through the causes, events, leaders, ideology and aftermath of the revolutions. There are four major investigations in each text. Within each investigation there are a number of inquiries that focus on a particular question for study. It is intended that the inquiries simulate the process of the historian, that is, raising questions, investigating and critiquing sources, drawing conclusions, justifying their decisions and communicating their findings. Graded questions encourage an examination of the sources using a variety of learning techniques. Designed to meet the curriculum requirements of the Western Australian and Victorian senior history syllabuses, The Spirit of Change Series would be appropriate for any senior History student studying the revolutions.

Book The Spirit of Change

Download or read book The Spirit of Change written by Margot Morcombe and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inquiry-based approach to content, encouraging students to question and evaluate. An extensive range of primary and secondary sources including letters, newspaper reports, state documents, propaganda items, speeches, interviews and memoirs. Diverse and stimulating array of visual sources, including fine art, diagrams, cartoons, maps, timelines and tables

Book The Spirit of the Russian Revolution

Download or read book The Spirit of the Russian Revolution written by Harold Williams and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Russian Revolution 1917

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  • Author : Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-07-14
  • ISBN : 1400857104
  • Pages : 745 pages

Download or read book The Russian Revolution 1917 written by Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the only full-length eyewitness account of the 1917 Revolution, Sukhanov was a key figure in the first revolutionary Government. His seven-volume book, first published in 1922, was suppressed under Stalin. This reissue of the abridged version is, as the editor's preface points out, one of the few things written about this most dramatic and momentous event, which actually has the smell of life, and gives us a feeling for the personalities, the emotions, and the play of ideas of the whole revolutionary period." Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Wall Street and the Russian Revolution

Download or read book Wall Street and the Russian Revolution written by Richard Spence and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street and the Russian Revolution will give readers critical insight into what might be called the "Secret History of the 20th century." The Russian Revolution, like the war in which it was born, represents the real beginning of the modern world. The book will look not just at the sweep of events, but probe the economic, ideological and personal motivations of the key figures involved, revealing heretofore unknown or misunderstood connections. Was Trotsky, for instance, a political genius, an unprincipled egomaniac, or something of each? Readers should come away with not only a far deeper understanding of what happened in Russia a century ago, but also what happened in America and how that still shapes the relations of the twocountries today.

Book Culture of the Future

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  • Author : Lynn Mally
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1990-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520065772
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Culture of the Future written by Lynn Mally and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mally's book moves the study of an important revolutionary cultural experiment from the realm of selective textual analysis to wide-ranging social and institutional history. It reveals vividly the social-cultural tensions and values inherent in the Russian revolutionary period, and adds authoritatively to the rapidly emerging literature on cultural revolution in Russia and in the modern world at large."--Richard Stites, Georgetown University "Mally's book moves the study of an important revolutionary cultural experiment from the realm of selective textual analysis to wide-ranging social and institutional history. It reveals vividly the social-cultural tensions and values inherent in the Russian revolutionary period, and adds authoritatively to the rapidly emerging literature on cultural revolution in Russia and in the modern world at large."--Richard Stites, Georgetown University

Book Roads to the Temple

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  • Author : Leon Aron
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2012-06-13
  • ISBN : 0300183240
  • Pages : 746 pages

Download or read book Roads to the Temple written by Leon Aron and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Aron considers the “mystery of the Soviet collapse” and finds answers in the intellectual and moral self-scrutiny of glasnost that brought about a profound shift in values. Reviewing the entire output of the key glasnost outlets in 1987-1991, he elucidates and documents key themes in this national soul-searching and the “ultimate” questions that sparked moral awakening of a great nation: “Who are we? How do we live honorably? What is a dignified relationship between man and state? How do we atone for the moral breakdown of Stalinism?” Contributing both to the theory of revolutions and history of ideas, Aron presents a thorough and original narrative about new ideas’ dissemination through the various media of the former Soviet Union. Aron shows how, reaching every corner of the nation, these ideas destroyed the moral foundation of the Soviet state, de-legitimized it and made its collapse inevitable.

Book Sale of the Century

Download or read book Sale of the Century written by Chrystia Freeland and published by Crown. This book was released on 2000 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1990s, all eyes turned to the momentous changes in Russia, as the world's largest country was transformed into the world's newest democracy. But the heroic images of Boris Yeltsin atop a tank in front of Moscow's White House soon turned to grim new realities: a currency in freefall and a war in Chechnya; on the street, flashy new money and a vicious Russian mafia contrasted with doctors and teachers not receiving salaries for months at a time. If this was what capitalism brought, many Russians wondered if they weren't better off under the communists. This new society did not just appear ready-made: it was created by a handful of powerful men who came to be known as the oligarchs and the young reformers. The oligarchs were fast-talking businessmen who laid claim to Russia's vast natural resources. The young reformers were an elite group of egghead economists who got to put their wild theories into action, with results that were sometimes inspiring, sometimes devastating. With unparalleled access and acute insight, Chrystia Freeland takes us behind the scenes and shows us how these two groups misused a historic opportunity to build a new Russia. Their achievements were considerable, but their mistakes will deform Russian society for generations to come. Along with a gripping account of the incredible events in Russia's corridors of power, Freeland gives us a vivid sense of the buzz and hustle of the new Russia, and inside stories of the businesses that have beaten the odds and become successful and profitable. She also exposes the conflicts and compromises that developed when red directors of old Soviet firms and factories yielded to -- or fought -- the radically new ways of doing business. She delves into the loophole economy, where anyone who knows how to manipulate the new rules can make a fast buck. Sale of the Century is a fascinating fly-on-the-wall economic thriller -- an astonishing and essential account of who really controls Russia's new frontier.

Book The Dawn in Russia

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  • Author : Henry Woodd Nevinson
  • Publisher : Arno Press
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book The Dawn in Russia written by Henry Woodd Nevinson and published by Arno Press. This book was released on 1906 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Caught in the Revolution

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  • Author : Helen Rappaport
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2016-08-25
  • ISBN : 1473518172
  • Pages : 547 pages

Download or read book Caught in the Revolution written by Helen Rappaport and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TELEGRAPH AND EVENING STANDARD '[The] centenary will prompt a raft of books on the Russian Revolution. They will be hard pushed to better this highly original, exhaustively researched and superbly constructed account.' Saul David, Daily Telegraph 'A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport.' Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin’s Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil. Foreign visitors who filled hotels, bars and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps. Among them were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, governesses and volunteer nurses. Many kept diaries and wrote letters home: from an English nurse who had already survived the sinking of the Titanic; to the black valet of the US Ambassador, far from his native Deep South; to suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, who had come to Petrograd to inspect the indomitable Women’s Death Battalion led by Maria Bochkareava. Drawing upon a rich trove of material and through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold, Helen Rappaport takes us right up to the action – to see, feel and hear the Revolution as it happened.

Book The Spirit of the Russian Revolution

Download or read book The Spirit of the Russian Revolution written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kingdom Revolution

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  • Author : Joseph Mattera
  • Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
  • Release : 2011-07-28
  • ISBN : 0768494745
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Kingdom Revolution written by Joseph Mattera and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, someone has explained and explored the kingdom of God in a way that enables us to understand the mission of the church in the world! Believers will be thrilled as they see God s special plan unfold for them regarding their particular vocation,whether they are in full-time church ministry or not! This book is an oasis for those thirsting to know how God s will should be practically fleshed out in the natural world! A must for pastors, leaders, and thinking Christians everywhere!

Book The House of Government

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  • Author : Yuri Slezkine
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2017-08-07
  • ISBN : 1400888174
  • Pages : 1128 pages

Download or read book The House of Government written by Yuri Slezkine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine’s gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin’s purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children’s loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union. Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building’s residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.

Book The End of Tsarist Russia

Download or read book The End of Tsarist Russia written by D. C. B. Lieven and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Great Britain under the title Towards the flame: empire, war and the end of tsarist Russia.

Book The Soul of the Russian Revolution

Download or read book The Soul of the Russian Revolution written by Moissaye Joseph Olgin and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Night  White Snow

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  • Author : Harison E. Salisbury
  • Publisher : Da Capo Press
  • Release : 1981-08-21
  • ISBN : 9780306801549
  • Pages : 788 pages

Download or read book Black Night White Snow written by Harison E. Salisbury and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1981-08-21 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destruction of the Czars which brought about the reign of revolutions from 1905–1917 in Russia looms as the crucial political event of the twentieth century. In little more than a decade the Romanov dynasty was toppled, and its time-honored institutions repudiated. How did it happen? How could Nicholas and Alexandra, the nobility, middle class anarchists—even Lenin himself—not foresee the catastrophic changes that were shaking the empire? Why could nothing be done? And why were the efforts so ineffectual? Black Night, White Snow captures the rich drama of this whole period. With the artistry of a Balzac, Harrison Salisbury exposes the strata of Russian society, with its decedents, prophetic poets, religious fanatics, and newly liberated serfs. From archival sources within the Soviet Union, interviews, and his personal photography collection, he recreates the story as it happened. Hard data on Russia's economy, a first-hand knowledge of the county, and a historian's gift of compression are combined in a fast-paced narrative that reads with the ease of a good novel and the urgency of a newspaper headline.

Book The spirit of the Russian revolution

Download or read book The spirit of the Russian revolution written by Harold Wiliams and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: