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The book attempts to analyze the social background and the institutions of the Russian Empire during its heyday/ Το βιβλίο επιχειρεί να αναλύσει το κοινωνικό υπόβαθρο και τους θεσμούς της Ρωσικής Αυτοκρτορίας κατά την περίοδο της ακμής της.
Herlihy, Patricia, “Ukrainian Cities in the Nineteenth Century” in Rethinking Ukrainian History, ed. Ivan L. Rudnytsky. Edmonton 1981. pp. 135-155
The book describes the development of Ukrainian cities during the 19th century/ Το βιβλίο περιγράφει την ανάπτυξη των ουκρανικών πόλεων κατά το 19ο αιώνα.
Hillis, Faith C., Between empire and nation: Urban politics, community, and violence in Kiev, 1863-1907, Yale University, 2009
This article outlines the city of Kiev based on political imperatives, economic and social riots that occurred during the 19th century/ Το άρθρο σκιαγραφεί την πόλη του Κιέβου με βάση τις πολιτικές επιταγές, την οικονομία αλλά και τις κοινωνικές εξεγέρσεις που σημειώθηκαν το 19ο αιών.
Hoffman, David L. - Kotsonis, Yanni, Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2000
The present volume places Imperial and Soviet Russia in a European context. Russia shared in a larger European modernity marked by increased overlap and sometimes merger of realms that had previously been treated as discrete entities: the social and the political, state and society, government and economy, and private and public. These were attributes of Soviet dictatorship, but their origins can be located in a larger European context and in the emergence of modern forms of government in Imperial Russia/ Το βιβλίο αναλύει όλους τους παράγοντες που οδήγησαν στον εκσυγχρονισμό της ρωσικής κοινωνίας κατά το 19ο αιώνα.
Hosking, Geoffrey A., Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusets 1997
Η Σοβιετική Ένωση καταρρέει και η Ρωσία αναδύεται ως ένα μεγάλο έθνος-ένα τέλειο σενάριο, αλλά από την άλλη η Ρωσία δεν ήταν ποτέ ένα έθνος. Και αυτό βρίσκεται στην καρδιά του ρωσικού διλήμματος λέει o Geoffrey Hosking. Το παρόν βιβλίο αφορά στα 300 χρόνια ιστορίας του χτισίματος μιας αυτοκρατορίας εις βάρος της εθνικής ταυτότητας. Η Ρωσία ξεκινά τον 16ο αιώνα, με τη σύλληψη μιας από τις πιο εκτενής αυτοκρατορίες στην ιστορία. Ο Hoskins αποδεικνύει πως η προσπάθεια κατάκτησης, άμυνας και διοίκησης ενός μείγματος περιοχών και ανθρώπων κατέβαλλε τις παραγωγικές δυνάμεις των ανθρώπων και διέρρυξε τους κοινωνικούς τους θεσμούς.
Ούτε το κράτος, ούτε η εκκλησία μπόρεσε να δημιουργήσει ένα είδωλο ρωσισμού, που θα μπορούσε να ενοποιήσει την ελίτ με τις μάζες υπό την πεποίθηση ότι ανήκουν σε ένα έθνος. Ο Hoskins απεικονίζει δύο Ρωσίες, αυτή των ευγενών και εκείνη των χωρικών και αποκαλύπτει πως το κενό μεταξύ τους μεγάλωσε τον 18ο και 19ο αιώνα και πως επέστρεψε με τη μορφή του επαναστατικού κινήματος. Το βιβλίο κλείνει το 1917/
The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises from the rubble, once again the great nation--a perfect scenario, but for one point: Russia was never a nation. And this, says the eminent historian Geoffrey Hosking, is at the heart of the Russians' dilemma today, as they grapple with the rudiments of nationhood. His book is about the Russia that never was, a three-hundred-year history of empire building at the expense of national identity.
Russia begins in the sixteenth century, with the inception of one of the most extensive and diverse empires in history. Hosking shows how this undertaking, the effort of conquering, defending, and administering such a huge mixture of territories and peoples, exhausted the productive powers of the common people and enfeebled their civic institutions. Neither church nor state was able to project an image of "Russian-ness" that could unite elites and masses in a consciousness of belonging to the same nation. Hosking depicts two Russias, that of the gentry and of the peasantry, and reveals how the gap between them, widened by the Tsarist state's repudiation of the Orthodox messianic myth, continued to grow throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Here we see how this myth, on which the empire was originally based, returned centuries later in the form of the revolutionary movement, which eventually swept away the Tsarist Empire but replaced it with an even more universalist one. Hosking concludes his story in 1917, but shows how the conflict he describes continues to affect Russia right up to the present day.
Hovannisian, Richard G., Armenian Pontus: The Trebizond-Black Sea Communities, Costa Mesa, Calif. Mazda Publ., California 2009
Upon the foundation of his unique experience and education, the late Arcadius Kahan (1920-1982) built a substantial body of scholarship on all aspects of the tsarist economy. Yet some of his important contribution might well have been dissipated were it not for this collection, since many of these essays were often available only in isolated, obscure sources. This posthumous volume makes readily available for the first time ten of Kahan's essays, nine previously published in English and one in German, which serve to integrate his carefully developed picture of nineteenth-century Russian economic history.
Kappeler, Andreas, The Russian Empire: A Multiethnic History, Harlow: Longman, 2001
Το εθνικό ζήτημα και πως επιβάλλεις τον έλεγχο σε ετερόκλιτες εθνικές ταυτότητες υπήρξε πάντα πρόβλημα του ρωσικού κράτους. Αυτή η μελέτη για τη Ρωσία ως πολυεθνική αυτοκρατορία εκτίνεται από τα αυτοκρατορικά χρόνια, το 16ο αιώνα, έως και το 1917, με μεγαλύτερη έμφαση στην σοβιετική περίοδο. Ένα από τα βασικά ερωτήματα του βιβλίου είναι πως οι Ρώσοι ενσωμάτωσαν νέες περιοχές, τι αντιστάσεις συνάντησαν, ποιός ήταν ο χαρακτήρας της αυτοκρατορίας και πως αυτό συνδέθηκε με τον εθνικισμό./The "national question" and how to impose control over its diverse ethnic identities has long posed a problem for the Russian state. This major survey of Russia as a multi-ethnic empire spans the imperial years from the sixteenth century to 1917, with major consideration of the Soviet phase. It asks how Russians incorporated new territories, how they were resisted, what the character of a multi-ethnic empire was and how, finally, these issues related to nationalism.
Khodarkovsky, Michael, Russia's Steppe Frontier. Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2002
The Caucasus Mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the twentieth century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly independent countries and sparked wars in Chechnya, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. The present volume recounts how tsars, highlanders, revolutionaries, and adventurers contributed to the fascinating history of this borderland, from the origins of modern disputes to debates over oil from the Caspian Sea and its impact on world markets.
King, Charles, Genius and Death in the City of Dreams. Odessa, WW Norton & Co., London, New York 2011
Ο παρών τόμος είναι μια περιγραφή της ζωντανής και πολυπολιτισμικής πόλης της Οδησσού, του κύριου λιμανιού της Μαύρης θάλασσας, της κοσμοπολίτικης πόλης των εφευρετών και των ιδιοφυών, της οποίας η εβραϊκή κοινότητα αποτελούσε σημαντικό κομμάτι. Επίσης αναλύει τις διώξεις και την μαζική δολοφονία των Εβραίων από τους Ρουμάνους κατακτητές της πόλης κατά το Δεύτερο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο./The present volume is a description of the vibrant, multicultural tapestry of the city of Odessa, the greatest port of the Black sea, a cosmopolitan city of innovators and geniuses, in which a thriving Jewish population formed an essential part. It also examines the mass murder of Jews carried out by the city’s Romanian occupiers during the World War II.
Kingston-Mann, Esther, In search of the true west. Culture, economics, and problems of Russian Development, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1999
This ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues of cultural borrowing, educated Russians searched for Western nations, ideas, and social groups that embodied universal economic truths applicable to their own country. The present volume describes Russian Westernization--which emphasized German as well as Anglo-U.S. economics--while she raises important questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined.
Koch, Karl H. E., The Crimea and Odessa: journal of a tour, with an account of the climate and vegetation, London: J. Murray, 1855
O παρών τόμος αφορά τη ρώσικη ιστορία κατά τη διάρκεια του 20ου αιώνα. Περιέχει βασικά άρθρα για την ιστορία και την πολιτική της περιόδου από την περίοδο του Τσάρου, στη Ρώσικη Επανάσταση, τη Σοβιετική Ένωση και τον Δεύτερο Παγκόσμιο πόλεμο έως και τη μετασοβιετική περίοδο./ The present volume is considering Russian history across this turbulent period of the 20th century. It contains key articles on history and politics from across the period; from the last Tsar, the Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union and World War Two, right up to the post-Soviet period.
Kozelsky, Mara, Christianizing Crimea. Shaping Sacred Space in the Russian Empire and Beyond, Northern Illinnois University Press, Illinnois 2010
Ο παρών τόμος αναλύει την χριστιανική αναβίωση . Αντλώντας από αδημοσίευτα αρχεία της Οδησσού, της Συμφερόπολης και της Αγίας Πετρούπολης, η παρούσα μελέτη παρέχει μια περίπτωση θρησκευτικού εθνικισμού στο παρελθόν και στο παρόν και των πολιτικών συγκρούσεων και υποχωρήσεων, εγγενείς σε ιερούς τόπους./The present volume analyzes the Christian renewal in Crimea. Drawing on unpublished archives in Odessa, Simferopol, and St. Petersburg, the volume provides a case study of past and present religious nationalism in Eastern Europe and an examination of the political conflicts and compromises endemic to holy places.
Kuijlaars, Anne-Marie - Prudon, Kim, - Visser, Joop (et al.), Business and Society, EBHA, Conference “Business and Society”, September 24-26, Rotterdam 1999
The book refers to the tribes and people of the Russian Empire, having as an example St. Petersburg/ Το βιβλίο αναφέρεται στις φυλές και τους λαούς της Ρωσικής αυτοκρατορίας έχοντας ως παράδειγμα την Αγία Πετρούπολη.
Lincoln W. Bruce, The Great Reforms. Autocracy, Bureaucracy, and the Politics of Chance in Imperial Russia, Northern Illinois University Press, Dekalb 1990.
The Great Reforms of the 1860s marked the broadest attempt at social and economic renovation to occur in Russia between the death of Peter the Great in 1725 and the Revolution of 1905. In just more than a decade, imperial reform acts freed Russia's serfs, restructured her courts, established institutions of local self-government in parts of the empire, altered the constraints that censorship imposed on the press, and transformed Russia's vast serf armed forces into a citizen army in which men from all classes bore equal responsibility for military service. This invaluable study explains why the legislation assumed the shape that it did and estimates what the Great Reforms ultimately accomplished.
Martin, Janet, Medieval Russia, 980-1584, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993
This volume is a concise narrative of the history of Russia from the reign of Vladimir I the Saint, through to the reign of Ivan IV the Terrible. It emphasizes the dynamics of Russia's political evolution from the loose federation of principalities known as Kievan Rus' through the era of Mongol domination to the development of the Muscovite state. The analyses of the ruling dynasty, of economic influences on political development, and the explorations of society, foreign relations, religion, and culture provide a basis for understanding the transformations of the lands of Rus'.
Maxwell, Donald, A cruise across Europe; notes on a freshwater voyage from Holland to the Black Sea, London: J. Lane, 1907
