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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $8.89
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Manufacturer: Texas Monthly Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Texas Monthly Press
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Edition: Texas A&m Univ
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.20947709049
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Publication Date: 1997-12
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Reading Level: 365
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $6.19
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Melissa L. Caldwell
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 362.583
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Publication Date: 2004-03-16
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Reading Level: 257
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Description: What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex--if no less necessary and nourishing--than the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world, Melissa L. Caldwell focuses on the everyday operations and civil transactions at CCM soup kitchens to reveal the new realities, the enduring features, and the intriguing subtext of social support in Russia today.
In an international food aid community, Caldwell explores how Muscovites employ a number of improvisational tactics to satisfy their material needs. She shows how the relationships that develop among members of this community--elderly Muscovite recipients, Russian aid workers, African student volunteers, and North American and European donors and volunteers--provide forms of social support that are highly valued and ultimately far more important than material resources. In Not by Bread Alone we see how the soup kitchens become sites of social stability and refuge for all who interact there--not just those with limited financial means--and how Muscovites articulate definitions of hunger and poverty that depend far more on the extent of one's social contacts than on material factors.
By rethinking the ways in which relationships between social and economic practices are theorized--by identifying social relations and social status as Russia's true economic currency--this book challenges prevailing ideas about the role of the state, the nature of poverty and welfare, the feasibility of Western-style reforms, and the primacy of social connections in the daily lives of ordinary people in post-Soviet Russia.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $12.65
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Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Max Michelson
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Publisher: University Press of Colorado
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092
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Publication Date: 2004-07-20
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Reading Level: 188
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Description: This is a stirring and haunting personal account of the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia and of the Holocaust. Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia Chr(45) at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. Private properties were nationalised, and Stalin's terror spread to Soviet Latvia. Soon after, Michelson's family was torn apart by the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. He quickly lost his entire family, while witnessing the unspeakable brutalities of war and genocide. Michelson's memoir is an ode to his lost family.
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $8.97
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Douglas R. Weiner
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947
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Publication Date: 2002-01-07
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Reading Level: 570
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Description: While researching Russia's historical efforts to protect nature, Douglas Weiner unearthed unexpected findings: a trail of documents that raised fundamental questions about the Soviet political system. These surprising documents attested to the unlikely survival of a critical-minded, scientist-led movement through the Stalin years and beyond. It appeared that, within scientific societies, alternative visions of land use, resource exploitation, habitat protection, and development were sustained and even publicly advocated. In sharp contrast to known Soviet practices, these scientific societies prided themselves on their traditions of free elections, foreign contacts, and a pre- revolutionary heritage. Weiner's ambitious goal is no less than to explain the intricacies of environmental activism under Stalin and his successors. He portrays the activists not as do-or-die resisters to the system, nor as inoffensive do- gooders. Rather, they were individuals who opened the discursive space and carved out independent social and professional identities within a system that prescribed official models of behavior, ethics, norms, and identity for all. Written in a lively style, this absorbing story tells for the first time how organized participation in nature protection provided an arena for affirming and perpetuating self-generated social identities and preserving a counterculture whose legacy survives today.
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Price: $57.95
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Sale: $41.57
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Yaacov Ro'i
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800958
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Publication Date: 1995-02-01
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Reading Level: 330
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Description: The former Muslim republics of the USSR are struggling to strike a balance between the legacy of the Soviet regime and the revival of their own, traditional culture. This volume examines the religion, economy and demography of the areas as well as both internal and external relations.
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Manufacturer: Westview Pr (Short Disc)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Andrei S. Grachev
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Publisher: Westview Pr (Short Disc)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947.0854092
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Publication Date: 1995-11
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Reading Level: 232
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Price: $37.00
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Sale: $10.90
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Manufacturer: Westview Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John M Thompson
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Publisher: Westview Press
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Edition: 4th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947
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Publication Date: 1998-09-24
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: This book presents a brief, lucid account of Russian and Soviet history from ancient Kievan Rus’ to Borris Yeltsin’s dispersal of the anti-reform parliament. Thompson’s balanced treatment pays equal attention to the early and modern periods of Russian history. This new, thoroughly revised edition reassesses the legacy of the Brezhnev period, looks at the crucial transitional role of Mikhail Gorbachev, analyzes the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, and provides an overview of the emergence of noncommunist Russia. An all new chapter focuses on events since 1991, including the war in Chechenya and Russia’s relations with the other post-Soviet successor states.The text is supplemented with maps and illustrations and includes bibliographies and suggested readings at the end of each chapter. Designed for use by students in either a one- or two-semester introductory course in Russian history; Russia and the Soviet Union will also be valuable to any reader seeking to become aquatinted with the story of the Russian people—their traditions and courage, their tragedies and triumphs, and their remarkable contribution to European and world culture.
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Price: $31.00
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Sale: $23.00
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Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Catherine Wanner
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Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947.7
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Publication Date: 1998-10
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Reading Level: 255
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Description: This text examines daily life in Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine, showing why Ukrainian nationalism and its programme of "Ukrainization" have appealed to the largest Russian diaspora and to millions of Russified Ukrainians. Focusing on schools, festivals, commemorative ceremonies and monuments, Catherine Wanner shows how Soviet-created narratives have been recast to reflect a post-Soviet Ukrainocentric perspective. In the process, the book aims to show how new histories are understood and acted upon. This reveals regional cleavages and the resilience of cultural differences produced by the Soviet regime. For some people, the system they criticized yesterday is the one they long for today.
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Price: $37.50
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Belknap Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Martin Malia
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Publisher: Belknap Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947
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Publication Date: 1999-04-15
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: Martin Malia, Professor Emeritus of Russian History at the University of California at Berkeley, hopes to rescue Russia from its status as menacing Other and restore it to its rightful place as a member of Europe. In Russia Under Western Eyes, Malia argues that there is no real polarity between Europe and Russia, but that "Russia has at different times been demonized or divinized by Western opinion less because of her real role in Europe than because of the fears and frustrations, or the hopes and aspirations, generated within European society by its own domestic problems." Following recent German historiography, Malia traces a continuum of development from West (most advanced) to East (somewhat laggard) and points out that there is as much difference between, say, Germany and France as between Russia and Europe. In the end, however, Russia remains a poor, weak sister--her growth stunted by bad choices, notably Communism. Malia chronicles the West's varying assessments: Russia celebrated for its enlightened despotism; Russia despised for its Oriental despotism; Russia welcomed back as simply one distinct culture within Europe; and, after the 1917 Revolution, Russia (to quote Churchill) as a "riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." Nearly half the book focuses in on Soviet Russia, as both an "experiment" (1917 to 1945) and as an "empire" (1945 to 1991). Not one to sit on the fence, Malia is clear about his position: Soviet Communism is an experiment that failed because Communism itself is doomed to fail. Though many scholars agree, Malia's anti-Soviet ferocity (he has often been described as "an old-fashioned cold warrior") somewhat diminishes the scholarly value of this work. General readers, however, will appreciate the sweeping scope of this remarkable book.
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $15.55
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Manufacturer: Facts on File
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Margaret Kaeter
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Publisher: Facts on File
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947.5
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Publication Date: 2004-08-30
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Reading Level: 166
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Description: The Caucasian Republics examines the three republics of the Transcaucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia - which are situated in the area between Europe and Asia, extending from the Greater Caucasus to the Turkish and Iranian borders, between the Black and Caspian seas. Although small and isolated by mountain chains, the region's location at crossroads between major world cultures has historically enhanced its importance as it served as a buffer zone between competing nations and a center of trade. Today, the region's oil and gas resources, and its geopolitical importance, have attracted the attention of both Western and Russian businessmen. Western companies see the region as a bridge between Central Asia and the open seas, enabling them to avoid both Iran and Russia. For Russia, the region is both a gateway to the Middle East and a bulwark against Western or Turkish influences on its southern borders. This richly informative volume is an ideal starting point for students and general readers interested in the countries and peoples of this region. An introduction to the common geography and history of the area begins the work, and following is a section that explores the histor
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