wyszukanych pozycji: 5
All Russia Is Burning!: A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia
ISBN: 9780295995878 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia, as Cathy Frierson shows in this first comprehensive study. Destroying almost three billion rubles' worth of property in European Russia between 1860 and 1904, accidental and arson fires acted as a brake on Russia's economic development while subjecting peasants to perennial shocks to their physical and emotional condition. The fire question captured the attention of educated, progressive Russians, who came to perceived it as a key obstacle to Russia's becoming a modern society in the European... Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia, as Cathy Frierson shows in this first comprehensive study. De... |
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473,83 zł |
All Russia Is Burning!: A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia
ISBN: 9780295982090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia, as Cathy Frierson shows in this first comprehensive study. Destroying almost three billion rubles' worth of property in European Russia between 1860 and 1904, accidental and arson fires acted as a brake on Russia's economic development while subjecting peasants to perennial shocks to their physical and emotional condition. The fire question captured the attention of educated, progressive Russians, who came to perceived it as a key obstacle to Russia's becoming a modern society in the European... Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia, as Cathy Frierson shows in this first comprehensive study. De... |
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124,92 zł |
Silence Was Salvation: Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union
ISBN: 9780300179453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era. As the sons and daughters of Soviet citizens considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order, these children lost parents, siblings, homes, educational and work opportunities, and, in many cases, their physical health. From 2005 to 2007, Cathy A. Frierson conducted in-depth interviews with grown victims who survived the Terror of the 1930s-1950s, and the suffering and stigmatization that was forced upon them during World War II.
In these powerful and... Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era. As the sons and daughters of Soviet ci...
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448,41 zł |
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Engelgardt's Letters from the Country, 1872-1887
ISBN: 9780195076219 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the rye field and the threshing barn to the local gentry and the village court, A.N. Engelgardt's Letters painted the most lively, entertaining, and insightful portrait of Imperial Russia's rural countryside. Now translated into English for the first time, judiciously abridged, and fully annotated for the modern reader, Engelgardt's account stands revealed both as a major primary source on nineteenth-century Russia and as an ever-more-timely analysis of a peasant culture in the wake of reform.
A distinguished chemist at the St. Petersburg Agricultural Institute, Engelgardt... From the rye field and the threshing barn to the local gentry and the village court, A.N. Engelgardt's Letters painted the most lively, enter...
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720,90 zł |
Children of the Gulag
ISBN: 9780300122930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive documentary history of children whose parents were identified as enemies of the Soviet regime from its inception through Joseph Stalin's death. When parents were arrested, executed, or sent to the Gulag, their children also suffered. Millions of children, labeled "socially dangerous," lost parents, homes, and siblings. Co-edited by Cathy A. Frierson, a senior American scholar, and Semyon S. Vilensky, Gulag survivor and compiler of the Russian documents, the book offers documentary and personal perspectives. The editors present...
This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive documentary history of children whose parents were identified as enemies of the Soviet regime from its...
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527,15 zł |