Oxford University Press, 2017. — 248 p. — ISBN: 0190640529. On April 22, 1823, a three-year-old boy named Fedor finished his lunch and went to play outside. Fedor never returned home from his walk. Several days later, a neighbor found his mutilated body drained of blood and repeatedly pierced. In small market towns, where houses were clustered together, residents knew each...
Harvard University Press - Belknap Press, 2018. — 384 p. Many people are familiar with American Commodore Matthew Perry’s expedition to open trade relations with Japan in the early 1850s. Less well known is that on the heels of the Perry squadron followed a Russian expedition secretly on the same mission. Serving as secretary to the naval commander was novelist Ivan Goncharov,...
University of California Press, 1983. — 589 p. On the background The foundation of the organized labour movement The formation of labour movements in 1905 revolution The politics of organized labour in 1905 revolution The emergence of legal trade union movement 1906-1907 The organization of ideologu of trade unions 1906-1907
University of California Press, 1983. — 589 p. — ISBN: 0-520-04740-0; ISBN: 0-520-05114-9. Roots of Rebellion is the first comprehensive history of workers' political attitudes and organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow during the final years of the tsarist era. In this richly documented study, Victoria Bonnell examines the workers' persistent efforts to combine...
University of California Press, 1990. — 253 p. This history of Russian cities examines the transformation of urban life in the late tsarist period. Specifically, it looks at the changes under way in European Russia in the decades between the reforms of Alexander II and the Revolution of 1905.
Routledge, 2001. — 160 p. ISBN 0-203-46705-1 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-77529-5 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0–415–23109–4 (hbk) ISBN 0–415–23110–8 (pbk) Imperial Russia, 1801-1905 traces the development of the Russian Empire from the murder of 'mad Tsar Paul' to the reforms of the 1890s that were an attempt to modernise the autocratic state. This is essential reading for all...
New York: The Viking Press, 1976. - 429 pgs. Exactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, finally sweep the autocracy away. The Shadow of the Winter Palace recounts an extraordinary century of Russian history, a politically tempestuous time that was also a Golden Age of intellectual and artistic...
New York: The Viking Press, 1976. - 429 pgs. Exactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, finally sweep the autocracy away. The Shadow of the Winter Palace recounts an extraordinary century of Russian history, a politically tempestuous time that was also a Golden Age of intellectual and artistic...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016. — 120 p. Includes over 180 illustrations, portraits and maps covering the Russian Campaign of 1812. “These Memoirs are the findings of a professional soldier, sitting in judgment upon the foremost soldier of fortune the world has known. But they are something more than that. They are the observations of a man of the Old R?gime, whose lot had...
London: Frank Cass & Co, 1994. — 452 p. This book is a fine analysis of the Russian conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan between the late 1820s and early 1850s. Its central theme is the collision between imperial Russia and the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus. Gammer traces the origins of the 'Islamic revival' that occurred in the Caucasus in the second quarter of the nineteenth...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 359 p. Introduction: The beginnings of Russian-Jewish radicalism, 1790-1868 The Chaikovskii circles: Jewish radicals in the formative stage of revolutionary Populism, 1868-1875 Jewish student activists in St Petersburg Chaikovsky ist Jews in Moscow, Odessa, and Kiev The rebellious Jewish youth of Vilna Socialist Jews and Russian Populism The...
Transl by. Richard Taylor. — Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0521090105; ISBN13: 978-0521090100. This book is a documentary record of the statements and debates that defined the formative period of a movement that has affected modern politics and history more than any other. It is generally acknowledged that not only were the theoretical...
Transl by. Richard Taylor. — Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0521090105; ISBN13: 978-0521090100. This book is a documentary record of the statements and debates that defined the formative period of a movement that has affected modern politics and history more than any other. It is generally acknowledged that not only were the theoretical...
University of Chicago Press, 1972. — 327 pgs. Edited and with an introduction by S. Frederick Starr, translated by Eleanore L.M. Schmidt. Teachers and students of Russian history will welcome this abbreviated one-volume English translation of August von Haxthausen's celebrated three-volume German account of his travels in Russia in 1843. The present version is accompanied by an...
New York: Routlege, 2011. — 227 p. Figures Cholera in Russia Saratov on the eve op epidemic Cholera in Saratov, 1892 Sanitised politics and the politics of medicine The revival of cholera 1904-1910 Conclusion: Saratov, cholera and the empire
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 242 p. The Alcoholic Empire examines the prevalence of alcohol in Russian social, economic, religious, and political life. Herlihy looks at how the state, the church, the military, doctors, lay societies, and the czar all tried to battle the problem of overconsumption of alcohol in the late imperial period. This book traces temperance activity...
Indiana University Press, 2017. — 334 p. What was the role of historians and historical societies in the public life of imperial Russia? Focusing on the Society of Zealots of Russian Historical Education (1895–1918), Vera Kaplan analyzes the network of voluntary associations that existed in imperial Russia, showing how they interacted with state, public, and private bodies....
New York: The Century Co, 1891. — 583 p. Prisons and Exiles in Irkutsk. Under Police Surveillance A Visit to the Selenginsk Lamasery A Ride Through the Trans-Baikal The Convict Mines of Kara The Kara "Free Command" State Criminals at Kara The History of the Kara Political Prison. The Silver Mines of Nerchinsk. Adventures in Eastern Siberia The Great Siberian Road in Winter Our...
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1909. — 260 p. Gathering up the clues Russian Ideals The Greek Orthodox Church The Religion of the Russian People The Story of the "Old Believers" The Story of the Molokans Absolutism and Religious Liberty Tsar Alexander II (1856-1881) Bright Hopes The Story of the Stundists in the South The Radstock Awakening in the North Smuggling the...
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1909. — 260 p. Gathering up the clues Russian Ideals The Greek Orthodox Church The Religion of the Russian People The Story of the "Old Believers" The Story of the Molokans Absolutism and Religious Liberty Tsar Alexander II (1856-1881) Bright Hopes The Story of the Stundists in the South The Radstock Awakening in the North Smuggling the...
Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989. - 424 pgs. This is a superb, well researched, highly organized, and very readable biography of an important Russian emperor. The author provides an in-depth description and intelligent analysis of Nicholas' personality and character, the emperor's orientation to autocratic rule, Russian political, economic, social, and cultural...
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. - 229 pgs. Roderick E. McGrew describes Russia's response to the first cholera epidemic, and how the government and medical practitioners performed during a new kind of crisis. Riots were caused by the anti-cholera measures, such as quarantine, armed cordons and migratory restrictions. Influenced by rumors of deliberate...
Indiana University Press, 2000. — 334 p. In the first comprehensive institutional and operational history of the Imperial Russian Army during the crucial period of its modernisation, Bruce W. Menning surveys the development of organisation, doctrine, and strategy from the aftermath of Russia's defeat in the Crimean War through the wars against Turkey in 1877-1878 and Japan in...
New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. — 288 p. Reading Russian revolutionary culture through its stories, author Susan Morrissey examines how the quest for consciousness evolved into a master-plot of student radicalism. Based on interdisciplinary sources and extensive research in Russian archives, this study throws new light on the dynamics of political and cultural...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 224 p. Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries. Indeed the nineteenth century, when the Muslim Caucasus first came under Russian rule, witnessed many of the historical antecedents to today's violent confrontations. With this in mind, On The Religious Frontier examines the history of Muslim Azerbaijan under Christian...
M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2005. - 304 p. Foreword, Larissa Zakharova. Foreword, Thomas C. Owen. Preface and Acknowledgments. On the Path to Reform. “A Time of External Slavery and Internal Freedom”. A Colossus with Feet of Clay. The End of Serfdom. The Great Reforms: Sources and Consequences. Russia’s Economy and Finances after the Emancipation of the Serfs. The Opposition Movement in...
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co, 1872. — 312 p. Edna Dean Proctor (1829-1923), an American poet and traveler. In 1867, she visited St. Petersburg, and Moscow, traveled along the Volga (Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Samara, Kamyshin), then Rostov-on-Don, Azov, Crimea, Odessa, and Moldova. As a result of this trip, in 1872, a real collection of essays, "Russian Journey", was published, in...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. - 296 pgs. For thirty years Russia was ruled by Official Nationality, which depended on a particular interpretation of orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationalism, the guiding principles of the reign of Nicholas I. Nicholas has been neglected by historians, and the significance of Official Nationality has been obscured. The present book...
Cambridge; London, 1998. — 293 p. In this impressive study, David Rich demonstrates how the modernization of Russia’s general staff during the second half of the nineteenth century reshaped its intellectual and strategic outlook and equipped the staff to play a strong, and at times dominant, role in shaping Russian foreign policy. Rich weaves together several levels of...
Columbia University Press, 1975. — 259 p. On the famine and its causes Two Russia`s system of famine relief The crisis begins Setting the pattern for the relief The crisis deepens The railroad crisis The special committee on the famine relief Public works Relief in the provinces: Guberniia institutions Local institutions
University of Toronto, 2009. — 315 p. Inquiri enlights the political and social conditions of the zenith time of power of Russian empire and how did it`s imperial realities tied with freedom of thought and speech concentrate in press.
Indiana University Press, 2007. — 336 p. This intensively researched urban study dissects Russian Imperial and early Soviet rule in Islamic Central Asia from the diverse viewpoints of tsarist functionaries, Soviet bureaucrats, Russian workers, and lower-class women as well as Muslim notables and Central Asian traders. Jeff Sahadeo’s stimulating analysis reveals how political,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2017. — 344 p. In Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia , Susan Smith-Peter shows how ideas of civil society encouraged the growth of subnational identity in Russia before 1861. Adam Smith and G.W.F. Hegel’s ideas of civil society influenced Russians and the resulting plans to stimulate the...
Transl. by E. L. Voynich. Intr. by R. Spence Watson. — London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. — 134 p. Introduction. By Dr. R. Spence Watson Stepniak’s Pamphlets The Origin of the Book What is Wanted? Translated by E. L. Voynich The Agitation Abroad Translated by E. L. Voynich Letter sent by the Revolutionary Executive Committee to Alexander III at his Accession to the Throne The...
Transl. by E. L. Voynich. Intr. by R. Spence Watson. — London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. — 134 p. Introduction. By Dr. R. Spence Watson Stepniak’s Pamphlets The Origin of the Book What is Wanted? Translated by E. L. Voynich The Agitation Abroad Translated by E. L. Voynich Letter sent by the Revolutionary Executive Committee to Alexander III at his Accession to the Throne The...
Transl. from Italian. Preface by Peter Lavroff. — New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883. — 286 p. The Propaganda The Terrorism Revolutionary Profiles Revolutionary Profiles Jacob Stefanovic Demetrius Clemens Valerian Ossinsky Peter Krapotkine Demetrius Lisogub Jessy Helfman Vera Zassulich Sophia Perovskaia Revolutionary Sketches The Moscow Attempt A Band of Hermits The Mine...
Transl. from Italian. Preface by Peter Lavroff. — New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883. — 286 p. The Propaganda The Terrorism Revolutionary Profiles Revolutionary Profiles Jacob Stefanovic Demetrius Clemens Valerian Ossinsky Peter Krapotkine Demetrius Lisogub Jessy Helfman Vera Zassulich Sophia Perovskaia Revolutionary Sketches The Moscow Attempt A Band of Hermits The Mine...
Oxford University Press, 2011. - 258 p. The Russian Empire is usually thought of as an expansive continental realm, consisting of contiguous territories. The existence of Russian America challenges this image. The Russian Empire claimed territory and people in North America between 1741 and 1867 but not until 1799 was this colonial activity was organized and coordinated under a...
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1968. — 314 pgs. The Peasant Way of Life - Mary Matossian The Peasant and the Emancipation - Terence Emmons The Peasant and Religion - Donald W. Treadgold The Peasant and the Army - John S. Curtiss The Peasant and the Village Commune - Francis M. Watters The Peasant and the Factory - Reginald E. Zelnik The Peasant in...
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