Life Is Elsewhere. Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800-1917, Paperback - Anne Lounsbery

In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"-a place at o...

A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man...

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DescriptionWhen workers and peasants rose up across Russia and smashed the centuries old Tsarist autocracy their actions reverberated across the wo...

A concise introduction to the Russian Revolution and its origins dating back to the emancipation of the Russian peasant serfs in 1861.

Established in 1800, edinoverie (translated as "unity in faith") was intended to draw back those who had broken with the Russian Orthodox Church ov...

Of all the tomes published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, none will reckon with a key part of the story: what if the revolutionaries' ...

A groundbreaking study that shatters longstanding assumptions about the nature and origins of the Russian RevolutionPublisher: Haymarket BooksAutho...

This collection of essays provides an historical, plural and original analysis of the Russian Revolution to mark its first centenary.

The experience of a group of Russian avant-garde artists (such as Kazimir Malevich, Vassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Vladimir...

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Reducere. The fifth and final book in The Books of Elsewhere, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling, fan-favorite series--absolutely not to be missed...

Reducere. John Nathan arrived in Tokyo in 1961 fresh out of Harvard College, bringing with him no practical experience, no more than two connections, no pros...

Dacha Tales: Life in the Russian Hinterland is the author's first book in the travel genre. Readers of Zalesova's novels often asked whether she dr...

Reducere. One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, this comprehensive survey explores all aspects of its groundbreaking artOne hundred years after the...

DescriptionThe complete and illustrated history of Russia's armed forces from the Russian Revolution until the present day, covering both their inv...

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Reducere. Vladimir Lorchenkov tells the story of a group of villagers and their tragicomic efforts, against all odds and at any cost, to emigrate from Moldov...

This volume covers the nineteenth century, a period of profound change in Scottish history.

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova (1884 - 1964) was a Russian lady-in-waiting and close friend of Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna, Empress of Russia and wif...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & INDIE NEXT PICK"Griffin's stunning debut, brimming with irresistible Irish-isms, is an elegy to love, loss and the c...

The Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 and the ensuing communist regime have often been portrayed as a man's revolution, with women as bystanders o...

Intends to recreate the Pablo Picasso's life and work during the decade of 1907-17 - a period during which the artist and Georges Braque invented C...

DescriptionThe Russian Revolution is remembered as the catalyst for the bloody conflict between the Reds and the Whites as each side tried to gain ...

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Step into the world of domestic service and discover what life was really like for these unsung heroines (and heroes) of society. Between 1800 and ...

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Reducere. "My Life in Art" is the 1924 autobiography of seminal Russian actor and teacher Konstantin Stanislavski. The book is divided into four sections: "A...

Reducere. Discover untold secrets with this extraordinary memoir of drama and tragedy by Anne Glenconner--a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-wait...

Ireland's regional and provincial newspapers have played a largely unrecognised role in Irish history, this book charts their experiences in the dr...

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Reducere. DescriptionIllustrated study into the deployments and appearance of Roman legionary, auxiliary, and allied units in the Western half of the Empire ...

DescriptionAn engaging text that enables readers to understand the world through symbolic interactionism This lively and accessible book offers an ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Raffaele D'AmatoIllustration(s): Illustrated with 8 detailed colour artworksNumber of pages: 48Co...

Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the...

This book investigates uncertainty as a governing practice from the unique vantage point of 'citizenisation' - twenty-first-century integration and...

Reducere. In 1971 William Kelso happened almost by chance on an archaeological find that would open a new door on the rural history of colonial Tidewater Vir...

This text offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography. Drawing out the key themes that de...

It has been said that Herbert Hoover was responsible for saving more lives than any other person in history. This phenomenal achievement, long obsc...

Reducere. Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place...

The volume offers a substantial and innovative appraisal of the role of the female voice from the perspective of twentieth-century performance prac...

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Suitable for a course in literary criticism, the title is concerned with the attempt to define and track down the implications of the term "symboli...

Reducere. In Religious but Not Religious, Jungian analyst Jason E. Smith explores the idea, expressed by C.G. Jung, that the religious sense is a natural and...

Stoicism changed the lives of its followers for the better, and now it can do the same for you. They knew the secret of what made a good person - a...