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   Russia Imagined: Art, Culture and National Identity, 1840-1995 » Read Now

   by Robert C. Williams. 398 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   ...Nationalization of Early Soviet Culture," Russian History , Number 9, Parts 2...itself a persistent theme of Russian culture and a source of Russian identity...feared its...
   
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   Women and Russian Culture: Projections and Self- Perceptions » Read Now

   by Rosalind Marsh. 300 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   This collection of essays by leading western and Russian specialists contains new insights and updates previous research into the role of women in Russian culture in the 19th and 20th centuries.
   
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   Russian Traditional Culture: Religion, Gender, and Customary Law » Read Now

   by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer. 310 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

   ...Russian Traditional Culture Russian Traditional Culture Religion...G. Vlasov 16 Russian Folk Culture and Folk Religion T. A...multifaith" mnogoverie Russian culture, in...
   
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   Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Paradoxes of Postcommunist Consciousness » Read Now

   by Dmitri N. Shalin. 341 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   ...Russian Culture at the Crossroads Russian Culture at the Crossroads Paradoxes of Postcommunist Consciousness...9JJ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data...
   
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   The Constraints of Russian Culture, in The National Interest » Read Now

   by Hugh Ragsdale. 5 pgs.

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   ...The constraints of Russian culture. by Hugh Ragsdale...Muzhik TRADITIONAL RUSSIAN conceptions of democracy...collectivism rather than a culture of production and...
   
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   Russian Peasant Beliefs and Practices concerning Death and the Supernatural Collected in Novosokol'niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia, 1995. Part I: The Restless Dead, Wizards and Spirit Beings, in Folklore » Read Now

   by Elizabeth A. Warner. 23 pgs.

   Collections: Entire Library

   ...of material and spiritual culture in the Russian village at that time that...scholars to study this aspect of Russian culture in the field have been severely...Wigzell...
   
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   Russian Peasant Beliefs and Practices concerning Death and the Supernatural Collected in Novosokol'niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia, 1995. Part II: Death in Natural Circumstances, in Folklore » Read Now

   by Elizabeth A. Warner. 26 pgs.

   Collections: Entire Library

   ...socio-economic conditions. Introduction As in many other cultures, the Russians used to uphold the concept of "good" and "bad" or...death was an unwelcome event...
   
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   Russian Folk Belief » Read Now

   by Linda J. Ivanits. 257 pgs.

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   ...Understanding Russia: The Holy Fool in Russian Culture Lanham, Md.: University Press...to out-of-the-way places in the Russian North, and there is no doubt that remoteness...
   
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   The Rebirth of Russian Democracy: An Interpretation of Political Culture » Read Now

   by Nicolai N. Petro. 228 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   How could the West have better prepared for the fall of communism and gained a clearer picture of Russia's new political landscape? By cultivating an awareness, Nicolai Petro argues, of the deep democratic aspirations of the Russian people since Muscovite times. Petro traces the long history of...

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   How could the West have better prepared for the fall of communism and gained a clearer picture of Russia's new political landscape? By cultivating an awareness, Nicolai Petro argues, of the deep democratic aspirations of the Russian people since Muscovite times. Petro traces the long history of those aspirations, recovering for us an understanding crucial to our formation of successful foreign policy toward Russia. Petro's analysis includes many surprising and incisive observations. In a look at the Russian Orthodox Church, he details its long history of support for opposition sentiment during both Tsarist and Soviet times and its support for democracy today. He also explores the character and power of contemporary Russian nationalism and traces its origins to the neo-Slavophile national identity that took its shape as a challenge to Bolshevik oppression. Delineating Russia's postcommunist political parties, the author reveals their roots in prerevolutionary times and explains how this continuitymakes Russian political aspirations far more predictable than is commonly assumed. Awakening us to Russia's historical involvement in the democratic quest that lies at the heart of Western values, Petro opens a path for a more meaningful, more productive, understanding of modern Russia.

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    Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution, 1881-1940 » Read Now

    by Catriona C. Kelly, David M. Shepherd. 358 pgs.

    Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

    This work offers an account of the relationship between literature and other cultural forms in late imperial Russia and revolutionary Russia.