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First hand account of the history of rock music in the Soviet Union.
Author : Artemy Troitsky
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN :
First hand account of the history of rock music in the Soviet Union.
Author : Vladislav M. Zubok
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0300262442
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise “A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”—Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times “[A] masterly analysis.”—Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong with five thousand nuclear-tipped missiles and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the twentieth century. Thirty years on, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR, refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was inevitable. Instead, Zubok reveals how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms, intended to modernize and democratize the Soviet Union, deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism. Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the Baltic struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances—and the fragility of authoritarian state power.
Author : D. O. Shklarsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486319865
Over 300 challenging problems in algebra, arithmetic, elementary number theory and trigonometry, selected from Mathematical Olympiads held at Moscow University. Only high school math needed. Includes complete solutions. Features 27 black-and-white illustrations. 1962 edition.
Author : Alec Nove
Publisher : IICA
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN :
Study in historical perspective of developments in economic policy in the USSR - covers economic structures and economic administration prior to and during the 1st world war, the position during the 50 years of the communist regime, political leadership of the country, the collective economy, industrialization, political problems, economic growth, etc. Bibliography pp. 389 to 391, and statistical tables.
Author : Boris Kagarlitsky
Publisher : Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781906497279
Boris Kagarlitsky reflects on what happened in Russia after the collapse of the old regime and how this has affected social and cultural life, as well as the everyday lives of ordinary people.
Author : John Noble
Publisher :
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780864421173
Introduces Russian and Soviet history and culture and recommends sightseeing attractions, restaurants, and hotels in Russia, the Baltics, and the other republics
Author : Murray Feshbach
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 1993-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780465017812
A dissection of the Soviet Union's legacy of health and environmental disaster, this book examines a former country of 103 cities - home to 70 million people - where the air is unfit to breathe and pollution fouls 75 percent of the water.
Author : Tricia Starks
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501765752
Enriched by color reproductions of tobacco advertisements, packs, and anti-smoking propaganda, Cigarettes and Soviets provides a comprehensive study of the Soviet tobacco habit. Tricia Starks examines how the Soviets maintained the first mass smoking society in the world while simultaneously fighting it. The book is at once a study of Soviet tobacco deeply enmeshed in its social, political, and cultural context and an exploration of the global experience of the tobacco epidemic. Starks examines the Soviet antipathy to tobacco yet capitulation to market; the development of innovative cessation techniques and clinics and the late entry into global anti-tobacco work; the seeming lack of cultural stimuli alongside massive use; and the expansion of smoking without the conventional prompts of capitalist markets. She tells the story of Philip Morris's "Mission to Moscow" campaign for the Soviet market, the triumph of the quintessential capitalist product—the cigarette—in a communist system, and the successes and failures of the world's first national antismoking campaign. The interplay of male habits and health against largely female tobacco producers and medical professionals adds a gendered dimension. Smoking developed, continued, and grew in the Soviet Union without mass production, intensive advertising, seductive industrial design, or product ubiquity. The Soviets were early to condemn tobacco, and yet, by the end of the twentieth century Russians smoked more heavily than most most other nations in the world. Cigarettes and Soviets challenges interpretations of how tobacco use rose in the past and what leads to mass use today.
Author : Claire L. Shaw
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501713787
In Deaf in the USSR, Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility. Shaw reveals how fundamental contradictions inherent in the Soviet revolutionary project were negotiated—both individually and collectively— by a vibrant and independent community of deaf people who engaged in complex ways with Soviet ideology. Deaf in the USSR engages with a wide range of sources from both deaf and hearing perspectives—archival sources, films and literature, personal memoirs, and journalism—to build a multilayered history of deafness. This book will appeal to scholars of Soviet history and disability studies as well as those in the international deaf community who are interested in their collective heritage. Deaf in the USSR will also enjoy a broad readership among those who are interested in deafness and disability as a key to more inclusive understandings of being human and of language, society, politics, and power.
Author : Jonathan Brunstedt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1108584888
Provides a bold new interpretation of the Soviet myth of World War II from its Stalinist origins to its emergence as arguably the supreme myth of state under Brezhnev. Jonathan Brunstedt offers a timely historical investigation into the roots of the revival of the war's memory in Russia today.