Download or read book Matreshka written by Rebecca Hickox and published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kata's little wooden doll saves her life when she is captured by Baba Yaga.

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Download or read book Waiting at the Prison Gate written by Judith Pallott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Federation has one of the largest prison populations in the world. Women in particular are profoundly affected by the imprisonment of a family member. Families and Punishment in Russia details the experiences of these women-be they wives, mothers, girlfriends, daughters-who, as relatives of Russia's three-quarters of a million prisoners, are the "invisible victims" of the country's harsh penal policy. A pioneering work that offers a unique lens through which various aspects of life in twenty-first century Russia can be observed: the workings of criminal sub-cultures; societal attitudes to parenthood, marriage and marital fidelity; young women's quests for a husband; nostalgia for the Soviet period; state strategies towards dealing with political opponents; and the social construction of gender roles.

Download or read book The Complete Russian Folktale written by Jack V. Haney and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the Russian folktale considers the origin, structure and language of folktales; tale-tellers and their audiences; the relationship of folktales to Russian ritual life; and the folktale types which are translated in subsequent volumes of "The Complete Russian Folktale".

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Download or read book Dehexing Sex written by Helena Goscilo and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at women's changing roles and images in the emerging new Russian society

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Download or read book Sweet Burdens written by Sveta Roberman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the lives of recent Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany. Sweet Burdens presents a detailed ethnographic study of the lives of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany over the past twenty years. Focusing on the first generation of adult immigrants, Sveta Roberman examines how they question and negotiate their moral economy and civic culture vis-à-vis the host German state and society, on the one hand, and the Holocaust past, on the other. She approaches the immigrant-host encounter as one of many cycles of social exchanges taking place in multiple and diverse arenas. The book sheds light on a number of issues, including the moral economy of Jewish-German relations, immigrants’ performances of civics and citizenship, modes of inclusion and exclusion, consumption and consumerism, work and the phenomena of unemployment and underemployment, the concept of community, and the dynamics and difficulties of reinventing Jewish identity and tradition.

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