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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Some Jewish Witnesses for Christ
Author: Rev. A. Bernstein B.D.Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465505113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Concord and Conflict
Author: Norman E. SaulPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Between 1867 - the year of the Alaskan purchase - and the beginning of World War I, Russian and American dignitaries, diplomats, businessmen, writers, tourists, and entertainers crossed between the two countries in surprisingly great numbers. Concord and Conflict provides the first comprehensive investigation of this highly transformational and fateful era in Russian-American relations. Excavating previously unmined Russian and American archives, Norman Saul illuminates these fifty significant - and open - years of association between the two countries. He explores the flow and fluctuation of economic, diplomatic, social, and cultural affairs; the personal and professional conflicts and scandals; and the evolution of each nation's perception of the other.
'By the Banks of the Neva'
Author: Anthony CrossPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521552931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
This book offers a unique and fascinating investigation into the lives and careers of the British in eighteenth-century Russia and, more specifically, into the development of a vibrant British community in St Petersburg during the city's first century of existence as the new capital of an ever-expanding Russian empire. Based on an extremely wide use of primary sources, particularly archival, from Britain and Russia, the book concentrates on the activities of the British within various fields such as commerce, the navy, the medical profession, science and technology and the arts, and ends with a broad survey of travellers and of travel accounts, many of them completely unknown. Also included are many attractive and unusual illustrations which help demonstrate the variety and character of Russia's British community.
Journey into Revolution petrograd, 1917-1918
Author: Albert Rhys WilliamsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Distant Friends
Author: Norman E. SaulPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Drawing upon more than two decades of research in secondary and documentary publications as well as archival materials from the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain, Saul reveals a wealth of new detail about contacts between the two countries between the American Revolutionary War and the purchase of Alaska in 1867.
In Search of Melancholy Baby
Author: Vasiliĭ AksenovPublisher: Vintage
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This celebrated Russian emigre novelist chronicles his encounter with America; through his eyes readers see the psyche, the landscape and the cultural life of the United States. Contains a new postscript on Gorbachev.
Friends Or Foes?
Author: Norman E. SaulPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
With Friends or Foes? Norman Saul continues his monumental multivolume magnum opus on U.S.-Russian relations over the course of 200 years. This fourth volume provides the first comprehensive study in any language of an era that shaped the rest of the century and captures the major changes in relations between two nations on the verge of becoming dominant global powers. Among other things, Saul examines the rationale for America's failure to recognize the Soviet government through the early 1930s, analyzing the impact of the Red Scare and the roles of the State Department, Russian migrs, religious groups, and key individuals—like Charles Evans Hughes, Robert Kelley, Herbert Hoover, Boris Skvirsky, Olga Kameneva, and Maxim Litvinov—on the policy process. In addition, he recalls the American Relief Administration's gigantic effort to help Russian peasants and garners new material from American business records on concession arrangements and commerce and on Soviet responses during the first Five Year Plan. He also records travelers' impressions, cultural exchange, and the role of academia in each country—particularly the contribution of Russian émigré scholars to American education and the contributions of American journalists in Russia. Saul also reveals the tendency on both sides to preserve an atmosphere of secrecy, conducting business behind closed doors and rarely on paper. His prodigious research in the Hoover Presidential Library, the Franklin Roosevelt Library, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University-incorporating overlooked Diplomat Post Records and featuring an interview with George Kennan on his diplomatic role—has yielded a wealth of new insights into what really happened during a period in the history of the relations between the two countries that remains mysterious and controversial. Breaking new ground in diplomatic, economic, social, and cultural history, Saul's book illuminates both the mutual fascination that briefly permitted peaceful coexistence (and eventual alliance) and the ideological battles that ultimately led to the Cold War.
The Americana
Author: Frederick Converse BeachPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
The Disappearance of the Outside
Author: Andrei CodrescuPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This crucial work calls for an imaginative reach beyond a benign reality founded in technology and commercialism, by striving for a better, evolutionary existence through art."--BOOK JACKET.