Consuming Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consuming Russia write by Adele Marie Barker. This book was released on 1999. Consuming Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A timely study of the "new Russia" at the end of the twentieth century.
The Winter Palace and the People
The Winter Palace and the People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Winter Palace and the People write by Susan McCaffray. This book was released on 2018-09-21. The Winter Palace and the People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. St. Petersburg's Winter Palace was once the supreme architectural symbol of Russia's autocratic government. Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it became the architectural symbol of St. Petersburg itself. The story of the palace illuminates the changing relationship between monarchs and their capital city during the last century and a half of Russian monarchy. In The Winter Palace and the People, Susan McCaffray examines interactions among those who helped to stage the ceremonial drama of monarchy, those who consumed the spectacle, and the monarchs themselves. In the face of a changing social landscape in their rapidly growing nineteenth-century capital, Russian monarchs reoriented their display of imperial and national representation away from courtiers and toward the urban public. When attacked at mid-century, monarchs retreated from the palace. As they receded, the public claimed the square and the artistic treasures in the Imperial Hermitage before claiming the palace itself. By 1917, the Winter Palace had come to be the essential stage for representing not just monarchy, but the civic life of the empire-nation. What was cataclysmic for the monarchy presented to those who staffed the palace and Hermitage not a disaster, but a new mission, as a public space created jointly by monarch and city passed from the one to the other. This insightful study will appeal to scholars of Russia and general readers interested in Russian history.
Bread and Salt
Bread and Salt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bread and Salt write by R. E. F. Smith. This book was released on 1984. Bread and Salt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bread and Salt - a literal translation of the Russian word for hospitality - explores the social and economic implications of eating and drinking in Russia in the thousand years before 1900. Eating and drinking are viewed here as social activities which involves the economics of production, storage and distribution of food stuffs. These activities attract both social controls and state taxation; in this way the everyday process of eating and drinking is linked with the history of Russia. The dominance of grain in the diet throughout the period and the importance of salt, as implied in the title, are dealt with, as are the early Russian beer-drinking fraternities. The relatively late introduction of spirits, in the from of vodka, and it disastrous consequences in social terms are described. Tea and the samovar, also much more a latecomer than is generally realized, did little to diminish excessive drinking. Drinking, in any event, was by no means discourage by the state, since it was a major source of state income. The final section of the book looks at rural diets in the nineteenth century, when some variation and new items, such as the potato, became important. At the same time, peasants depended basically on the grain crop, as they had for thousands of years. Forced by txation to enter the market, afflicted by severe famines towards the end of the century, many peasants ate and drank no better as a result of the modernization of the county.
The German Campaign in Russia
The German Campaign in Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The German Campaign in Russia write by George E. Blau. This book was released on 1955. The German Campaign in Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Russia Reader
The Russia Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Russia Reader write by Adele Marie Barker. This book was released on 2010-07-12. The Russia Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to the history, culture, and politics of the worlds largest country, from the earliest written accounts of the Russian people to today.
