Telling October - 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 Telling October write by Frederick C. Corney. This book was released on 2004. Telling October available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Telling October' chronicles the construction of an official 'foundation narrative' by the Soviet Union as the new state sought to legitimise itself by portraying the October Revolution as the inevitable culmination of a historical process.
Revolution and Its Narratives
Revolution and Its Narratives - 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 Revolution and Its Narratives write by Xiang Cai. This book was released on 2016-02-04. Revolution and Its Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical, and textual analysis of major and minor novels, dramas, short stories, and cinema, Cai Xiang offers a complex study that exceeds the narrow confines of existing views of socialist aesthetics. By engaging with the relationship among culture, history, and politics in the context of the revolutionary transformation of Chinese society and arts, Cai illuminates the utopian promise as well as the ultimate impossibility of socialist cultural production. Translated, annotated, and edited by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong, this translation presents Cai's influential work to English-language readers for the first time.
Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and Narratives of the Enlightenment
Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and Narratives of the Enlightenment - 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 Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and Narratives of the Enlightenment write by Ali M. Ansari. This book was released on 2016-11-15. Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and Narratives of the Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 opened the way for enormous change in Persia, heralding the modern era and creating a model for later political and cultural movements in the region. Broad in its scope, this multidisciplinary volume brings together essays from leading scholars in Iranian Studies to explore the significance of this revolution, its origins, and the people who made it happen. As the authors show, this period was one of unprecedented debate within Iran’s burgeoning press. Many different groups fought to shape the course of the Revolution, which opened up seemingly boundless possibilities for the country’s future and affected nearly every segment of its society. Exploring themes such as the role of women, the use of photography, and the uniqueness of the Revolution as an Iranian experience, the authors tell a story of immense transition, as the old order of the Shah subsided and was replaced by new institutions, new forms of expression, and a new social and political order.
China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution - 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 China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution write by Woei Lien Chong. This book was released on 2002. China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Treating China's Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this innovative volume explores its ideological dimensions. The contributors focus especially on the CR's discourse of heroism and messianism and its demonization of the enemy as reflected in political practice, official literature, and propaganda art, arguing that these characteristics can be traced back to hitherto-neglected undercurrents of Chinese tradition. Moreover, while most studies of the Cultural Revolution are content to point to the discredited cult of heroism and messianism, this book also explores the alternative discourses that have flourished to fill the resulting vacuum. The contributors analyze the intense intellectual and artistic ferment in post-Mao China that embody resistance to CR ideology, as well as the urgent quest for authentic individuality, new forms of social cohesion, and historical truth. Contributions by: Anne-Marie Brady, Woei Lien Chong, Lowell Dittmer, Monika Gaenssbauer, Nick Knight, Stefan R. Landsberger, Nora Sausmikat, Barend J. ter Haar, Natascha Vittinghoff, and Lan Yang.
Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance
Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance - 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 Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance write by Professor Eric Selbin. This book was released on 2013-04-04. Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur. In this groundbreaking book, Eric Selbin argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political and social structural conditions to the thoughts and feelings of the people who make revolutions. In particular, he argues, we need to understand the stories people relay and rework of past injustices and struggles as they struggle in the present towards a better future. Ranging from the French Revolution to the Battle for Seattle, via Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam and Nicaragua, Selbin makes the case that it is myth, memory and mimesis which create, maintain and extend such stories. Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance identifies four kinds of enduring revolutionary story - Civilizing and Democratizing, The Social Revolution, Freedom and Liberation and The Lost and Forgotten - which do more than report on events, they catalyse changing the world.
