By Leo Tolstoy

ISBN-10: 110148828X

ISBN-13: 9781101488287

Tolstoy's passionate and iconoclastic writings—on problems with religion, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality—reflect his highbrow look for fact and a faith firmly grounded actually. the choice encompasses a Confession," "Religion and Morality," "What Is faith, and of What Does Its Essence Consist?," and "The legislations of affection and the legislations of Violence."

By James T. Andrews

Review

“A e-book like no different in Russian stories. Andrews has made a huge contribution to our knowing of Russia and where of technology in its culture.”--Loren Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Loren Graham, Massachusetts Institute of know-how )

About the Author

JAMES T. ANDREWS acquired his Ph.D. on the collage of Chicago. He has taught as a vacationing professor at a number of educational associations, together with the college of Texas at Austin, and has been affiliated as a senior study go along with the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of the heritage of technology and expertise in Moscow and St. Petersburg. He presently is an affiliate professor of recent Russian historical past at Iowa kingdom college in Ames.

By Simon Richmond

ISBN-10: 1741047226

ISBN-13: 9781741047226

Lonely Planet RussiaJoin the thunderous applause for the chic ballet dancers within the Bolshoi TheatrePerfect your banya etiquette earlier than becoming a member of during this steamy Russian ritualSurround your self with majestic rugged surroundings as you force around the world's private lakeFeel St Petersburg's modern pulse through clubbing in switched over stables and Soviet factoriesIn This Guide:Nine authors, greater than seven months of study, numerous pictures of vodkaAll new actions bankruptcy and find out how to minimize via crimson tape to safe your visaContent up-to-date day-by-day - stopover at lonelyplanet.com for up to the moment reports, updates and visitor insights

By Peter Holquist

ISBN-10: 067400907X

ISBN-13: 9780674009073

Offering a basic reinterpretation of the emergence of the Soviet kingdom, Peter Holquist situates the Bolshevik Revolution in the continuum of mobilization and violence that begun with international battle I and prolonged via Russia's civil warfare. In so doing, Holquist presents a brand new family tree for Bolshevik political practices, one who areas them sincerely between Russian and eu wartime measures. From this attitude, the Russian Revolution used to be no radical rupture with the previous, yet relatively the fulcrum element in a continent-wide period of trouble and violence that started in 1914.

whereas Tsarist and innovative governments carried out guidelines for overall mobilization universal to different warring powers, they did so in a supercharged and targeted shape. Holquist highlights how the detailed contours of Russian political existence set its event in those years except different wartime societies. In pursuit of revolution, statesmen carried over crisis-created measures into political existence after which included them into the postwar political constitution. concentrating on 3 specific policies--state administration of nutrients; the employment of reliable violence for political ends; and kingdom surveillance--Holquist demonstrates the interaction of nation coverage and native implementation, and its effect at the lives of normal voters. Making battle, Forging Revolution casts a brand new mild on Russia's revolution and boldly inserts it into the bigger tale of the good struggle and twentieth-century eu history.

By Simon Dixon

ISBN-10: 0521371007

ISBN-13: 9780521371001

This can be an analytical account of a colourful interval in Russian background, that's obtainable to undergraduates of eu and Russian historical past, in addition to to the nonspecialist reader. primary to a dialogue that emphasizes Russia's position in Europe are the a lot misunderstood personalities of a few amazing rulers, comparable to Peter the good, Catherine the nice and Alexander I. Their reigns are set within the context of wider advancements in social, fiscal, cultural and highbrow heritage that aid to account for Russia's emergence as a superb energy.

By Andrew Brookes

By Anthony Burgess

ISBN-10: 0393346382

ISBN-13: 9780393346381

A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques broker, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one ultimate deal at the black marketplace as a desire for a useless friend's spouse. Even at the ship's voyage throughout, the Russian sensibility starts to pervade: plenty of secrets and techniques and plenty of vodka. whilst his American spouse is plagued by a painful rash and he's interrogated at his lodge via Soviet brokers who recognize that he's attempting to promote trendy man made clothes to the loads starved for style, his precarious internal stability is thrown off for reliable. extra drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with one other girl, and his personal submerged sexual emotions come breaking throughout the floor, effervescent up in Russian champagne and caviar.

By Tobias Jones

ISBN-10: 0571223818

ISBN-13: 9780571223817

"Utopian desires" deals one writer's try and retreat from the 'real international' - that's making him emptier and angrier by way of the day - and hunt down the choices to fashionable manners and morality. rather than cynicism, loneliness and melancholy, is it attainable to be idealistic, to discover belonging and companionship with others who proportion your disappointment, or maybe, possibly, your happiness? along with his spouse and child in tow, Jones spends a yr with spritualists, time-travellers, reformed drug addicts and Quakers, generating a desirable exploration of the that means of neighborhood.

By Ian D. Armour

ISBN-10: 1849664889

ISBN-13: 9781849664882

ISBN-10: 1849666601

ISBN-13: 9781849666602

ISBN-10: 184966661X

ISBN-13: 9781849666619

A historical past of japanese Europe 1740-1918: Empires, international locations and Modernisation presents a complete, authoritative account of the zone in the course of a bothered interval that entire with the 1st global battle. Ian Armour specializes in the 3 significant topics that experience outlined japanese Europe within the glossy interval - empire, nationhood and modernisation - when chronologically tracing the emergence of japanese Europe as a unique suggestion and position. distinctive assurance is given to the Habsburg, Ottoman, German and Russian Empires that struggled for dominance in this time.

In this fascinating re-creation, Ian Armour contains findings from new study into the character and origins of nationalism and the makes an attempt of supranational states to generate dynastic loyalties in addition to techniques of empire. Armour's insightful advisor to early japanese Europe considers the real figures and governments, analyses the numerous occasions and discusses the socio-economic and cultural advancements which are an important to a rounded knowing of the area in that era.

Features of this re-creation include:

* an absolutely up-to-date and enlarged bibliography and notes

* 8 worthy maps

* up to date content material during the text

A heritage of japanese Europe 1740-1918 is the appropriate textbook for college kids learning jap ecu history.

By Thomas H. Hitchcock

ISBN-10: 0914144057

ISBN-13: 9780914144052

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