Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis - 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 Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis write by Amanda DiGioia. This book was released on 2020-10-12. Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, written from a feminist perspective, uses the focus of duelling to discuss the nature of masculinity in Russia. It traces the development of duelling and masculinity historically from the time of Peter the Great onwards, considers how duelling and masculinity have been represented in both literature and film and assesses the high emphasis given in Soviet times to gender equality, arguing that this was a failed experiment that ran counter to Russian tradition. It examines how duelling continues to be a feature of life in contemporary Russia and relates the situation in Russia to wider scholarship on the nature of masculinity more generally. Overall, the book contends that Russia’s valuing of a strong, militaristic form of masculinity is a major problem.
Russian Peasant Bride Theft
Russian Peasant Bride Theft - 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 Russian Peasant Bride Theft write by John Bushnell. This book was released on 2021-03-15. Russian Peasant Bride Theft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the history of Russian peasant bride theft - abduction, capture - from the adoption of Christianity in Kievan Rus in the late tenth century to the very early twentieth century. It argues that bride theft in eighteenth and nineteenth century Russia was practised in large part by, but not exclusively by, Old Believers, the schismatics who rejected the Church reforms of the mid-seventeenth century and shunned contact with the Orthodox Church; and that the point of bride theft, where the bride was often a willing party, often married secretly at night by an Orthodox priest acting illegally, was to absolve the bride and her parents of the responsibility for engaging in a formal Orthodox ritual which Old Believers regarded as sinful. The book also considers how bride theft originated much earlier in Russia and was a continuing tradition in some places, and how all this fitted into the Russian peasant economy. Throughout the book provides rich details of particular bride theft cases, of Russian peasant life, and of Russian folklore, in particular bridal laments.
Russia in Manchuria
Russia in Manchuria - 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 Russia in Manchuria write by Paul Dukes. This book was released on 2022-01-31. Russia in Manchuria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Manchuria, the name given to China’s North-eastern provinces by foreign powers, has been contested by China, Russia and Japan in particular over many centuries. This book surveys the history of Manchuria, focusing particularly on the Russian and Soviet perspective. It outlines early colonisation of the region and examines the importance of the Chinese Eastern Railway, a branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the remarkable railway city of Harbin for consolidating the Russian presence in the region and for developing the region’s economy. It goes on to consider twentieth century developments, including the Japanese invasion and the puppet state of Manchukuo. Throughout, the book reflects on the nature of empire, especially Russian/Soviet imperialism and its similarities to and differences from other nations’ imperial ventures.
Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia
Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern 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 Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia write by Susana Torres Prieto. This book was released on 2023-03-08. Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Research on the East Slavs in the medieval period has considerably changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The emergence of new states forced a rethinking of many aspects of the history and culture of the early East Slavs as the subject became increasingly disentangled from the umbrella of Byzantine studies and fruitful collaboration was fostered between scholars worldwide. This book, which brings together scholars from Russia, Ukraine, western Europe and North America, of several generations, presents a broad overview of the main results of the last three decades of research and mutual collaboration. This is important work, providing a much-needed counterbalance to studies of western Europe in the period, which has been the main focus of study, with the lands of the East Slavs relatively neglected.
Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania – Generational Experiences
Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania – Generational Experiences - 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 Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania – Generational Experiences write by Laima Zilinskiene. This book was released on 2021-12-30. Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania – Generational Experiences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the impact on different generations of Lithuanians of the fifty-year Soviet modernisation project which was implemented in Lithuania from 1940 to 1991. It reveals the specific characteristics of ‘the last Soviet generation’, born in the 1970s, and sets this generation apart from those who were born earlier and later. It analyses changes in attitudes, choices and relationships in a variety of social spheres and contexts and the adaptation skills which were required during the late Soviet and post-Soviet transformation processes. Overall, it presents a great deal of detail on the social experiences of different generations in late Soviet and post-Soviet society.
