Peace Handbooks: The Russian Empire, no. 50-56
Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
Publisher :
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Economic geography
ISBN :
The Russian Empire, no. 50-56
Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
Publisher :
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Economic geography
ISBN :
Book Description
Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office: The Russian Empire, no. 50-56
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Economic geography
ISBN :
Book Description
The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831
Author : John P. LeDonne
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0195161009
Book Description
At its height, the Russian empire covered eleven time zones and stretched from Scandinavia to the Pacific Ocean. Arguing against the traditional historical view that Russia, surrounded and threatened by enemies, was always on the defensive, John P. LeDonne contends that Russia developed a long-term strategy not in response to immediate threats but in line with its own expansionist urges to control the Eurasian Heartland. LeDonne narrates how the government from Moscow and Petersburg expanded the empire by deploying its army as well as by extending its patronage to frontier societies in return for their serving the interests of the empire. He considers three theaters on which the Russians expanded: the Western (Baltic, Germany, Poland); the Southern (Ottoman and Persian Empires); and the Eastern (China, Siberia, Central Asia). In his analysis of military power, he weighs the role of geography and locale, as well as economic issues, in the evolution of a larger imperial strategy. Rather than viewing Russia as peripheral to European Great Power politics, LeDonne makes a powerful case for Russia as an expansionist, militaristic, and authoritarian regime that challenged the great states and empires of its time.
Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire
Author : Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0228003091
Book Description
Ivan Mazepa (1639-1709), hetman of the Zaporozhian Host in what is now Ukraine, is a controversial figure, famous for abandoning his allegiance to Tsar Peter I and joining Charles XII's Swedish army during the Battle of Poltava. Although he is discussed in almost every survey and major book on Russian and Ukrainian history, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire is the first English-language biography of the hetman in sixty years. A translation and revision of Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva's 2007 Russian-language book, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire presents an updated perspective. This account is based on many new sources, including Mazepa's archive - thought lost for centuries before it was rediscovered by the author in 2004 - and post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian historiography. Focusing on this fresh material, Tairova-Yakovleva delivers a more nuanced and balanced account of the polarizing figure who has been simultaneously demonized in Russia as a traitor and revered in Ukraine as the defender of independence. Chapters on economic reform, Mazepa's impact on the rise to power of Peter I, his cultural achievements, and the reasons he switched his allegiance from Peter to Charles integrate a larger array of issues and personalities than have previously been explored. Setting a standard for the next generation of historians, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire reveals an original picture of the Hetmanate during a moment of critical importance for the Russian Empire and Ukraine.
Kalmykia in Russia's Past and Present National Policies and Administrative System
Author : Konstantin Nikolaevich Maksimov
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789639776173
Book Description
"A detailed history of relations between the Russian state and the Kalmyk people from the 17th century until our days, this book focuses on the Kalmyks' official accession to the Russian state; the gradual curtailment of the autonomy of the Kalmyk khanate and inclusion of its people in the centralized system of Russian state control; Kalmyk disillusionment as their internal affairs were increasingly encroached upon by the central authorities and the economic burdens imposed on them by their new "patron" kept growing; the tragic story of a part of the people setting off for their ancestral homeland, Dzungaria, in the mid-18th century, with most perishing on the way, never to reach their destination." "The book describes the changing national policies of the totalitarian state towards Kalmyks. The issues of the legal status of Kalmykia, and the development of the republic under conditions of the new Russian federal system of state government are also covered."--BOOK JACKET.
East European Accessions Index
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN :
Book Description
Brotherhood in Christ
Author : Oleksandr Geychenko
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1786410192
Book Description
Traditional evangelical theology, with its emphasis on individual responsibility and the independence of faith communities, has often failed to offer a robust ecclesial vision for the unity of Christ’s church. Engaging this reality, Dr. Oleksandr Geychenko seeks to provide a theological framework for understanding the ecclesiological nature of Ukrainian Baptist church associations. He traces the history and development of Baptist unions in Eastern Europe, examining associational practices and organisational structure, along with the theological language used to describe the role and purpose of such unions. In dialogue with the covenant theology of Paul S. Fiddes, he demonstrates that church associations should be viewed as more than pragmatic entities. Rather, they are ecclesial bodies embodying covenantal unity, committed to mutual care and participation in Christ’s mission to the world. While drawing from primary sources and ecclesial practices to provide a unique and significant contribution to local theology, this study bears relevance for engaging ecumenical relations across traditions and encouraging the unity of the broader global church.
Weekly Weather Report
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Meteorology
ISBN :
Book Description
The Story of a Life
Author : Anna Pavolovna Vygodskaia
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1609090462
Book Description
Anna Pavlovna Vygodskaia's autobiography, originally published in 1938, is a rare and fascinating historical account of Jewish childhood and young adult life in Tsarist Russia. At a time when the vast majority of Jews resided in small market towns in the Pale of Settlement, Vygodskaia liberated herself from that world and embraced the day-to-day rhythms, educational activities, and new intellectual opportunities in the imperial capital of St. Petersburg. Her story offers a unique glimpse of Jewish daily life that is rarely documented in public sources—of neighborly interactions, children's games and household rituals, love affairs and emotional outbursts, clothing customs, and leisure time. Most first-person narratives of this kind reconstruct an isolated and self-contained Jewish world, but The Story of a Life uniquely describes the unprecedented social opportunities, as well as the many political and personal challenges, that young Jewish women and men experienced in the Russia of the 1870s and 1880s. In addition to their artful translation, Eugene M. Avrutin and Robert H. Greene thoroughly explicate this historical context in their introduction.
