Author: Raymond E. ZickelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
Book Description
Soviet Union
Author: Raymond E. ZickelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
Book Description
Collected Legislation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Constituent Union Republics: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 4 v
Author: Soviet UnionArchival Guide to the Collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Author: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Holocaust
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Internet version provides the full text of the printed edition, fully searchable by key word.
Library of Congress Law Library: An Illustrated Guide
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160882760
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Describes the collections of the Library of Congress Law Library. Illustrated with images from its treasures. Many of the illustrations are in color
State of Madness
Author: Rebecca ReichPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1609092333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric discourse to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. Situating literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power, this bold interdisciplinary study will appeal to literary specialists; historians of culture, science, and medicine; and scholars and students of the Soviet Union and its legacy for Russia today.
Source Book on European Governments
Author: William Emmanuel RappardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative government
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Scholars' Guide to Humanities and Social Sciences in the Soviet Union and the Baltic States
Author: Tigran MartirosyanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315488434
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
In the years since the first edition of the "Guide" was published, the research institutions of the academies of sciences of the USSR and the republics have undergone several, sometimes radical, reorganizations and reaffiliations. This guide to academy institutions supplies names, addresses, and historical, research, and organizational profiles for each institution, with summary information on staffing, current projects, special facilities, and libraries. The end of the Cold War has brought with it many changes of attitude and policy in the political arena; however, nowhere has change been so emotionally charged as in the area of politically-based emigration. Refugee policy is the driving force behind many of today's headlines, influencing both foreign and domestic policy. In Desperate Crossings, authors Norman L. and Naomi Flink Zucker chronicle and analyze the phenomenon of mass escape that began with the Haitians, but exploded into the American consciousness in the spring of 1980 with the Mariel boatlift and the subsequent mass exodus from Central America, and was most recently manifested in the Haitian and Cuban exoduses of 1994. In a compelling and carefully documented narrative, they identify the troika of interests - foreign policy, domestic pressures, and costs - that have controlled and determined the American response to refugees since before the Second World War, continuing until today. Desperate Crossings concludes by proposing a comprehensive and politically palatable approach to future refugee flows, both in our hemisphere and for the world community-at-large - including Europe and Asia. The authors suggest how, by changing the course of its refugee policies and programs, the United States can better respond to both the needs of refugees and the demands of its citizens.
Crime Control As Industry
Author: Nils ChristiePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315512033
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Crime Control As Industry, translated into many languages, is a modern classic of criminology and sociology. Nils Christie, one of the leading criminologists of his era, argues that crime control, rather than crime itself is the real danger for our future. Prison populations, especially in Russia and America, have grown at an increasingly rapid rate and show no signs of slowing. Christie argues that this vast and growing population is the equivalent of a modern gulag, run by a rapacious industry, both public and private, with vested interests in incarceration. Pain and confinement are products, like any other, with a potentially limitless supply of resources. Widely hailed as a classic account of crime and restorative justice Crime Control As Industry's prophetic insights and proposed solutions are essential reading for anyone interested in crime and the global penal system. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by David Garland.
The Black Book of Communism
Author: Stéphane CourtoisPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674076082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
Publications of the National Institute of Justice
Author: National Institute of Justice (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description