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Books on: russian famine

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On the Trail of the Russian Famine

Book by Frank Alfred Golder, Lincoln Hutchinson; Stanford University Press, 1927

Subjects:

American Relief Administration, Soviet Union--Economic Conditions--1917-1945, Soviet Union--Famines

Collections: History, Entire Library

ON THE TRAIL OF THE RUSSIAN FAMINE Transporting A.R.A. food into the interior ON THE TRAIL OF THE RUSSIAN FAMINE FRANK ALFRED GOLDER and...ON THE TRAIL OF THE RUSSIAN FAMINE. Drawing by Pedro J. Lemos...
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Writing the Irish Famine

Book by Christopher Morash; Clarendon Press, 1995

Subjects:

Famines--Ireland--History--19th Century--Historiography, Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852--Historiography

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book is an original and compelling contribution to Irish cultural studies. Morash examines literary texts by writers such as William Carleton. Anthony Trollope, James Clarence Mangan, John Mitchel, and Samuel Ferguson to reveal how they interact with histories, sermons, and economic treatises ...
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This book is an original and compelling contribution to Irish cultural studies. Morash examines literary texts by writers such as William Carleton. Anthony Trollope, James Clarence Mangan, John Mitchel, and Samuel Ferguson to reveal how they interact with histories, sermons, and economic treatises and construct a narrative of one of the most important and elusive events in Irish history. Drawing on the methodology new historicist literary criticism, he examines the attempts of a wide range of nineteenth-century writing to ensure the memorialization of an event that seems to resist representation.
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Reference Guide to Russian Literature

Book by Neil Cornwell, Nicole Christian; Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998

Subjects:

Russian Literature--Bio-Bibliogaphy--Dictionaries, Russian Literature--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Reference Guide to Russian Literature includes entries on more than 250 Russian writers and some 300 important works of Russian literature.
The Reference Guide to Russian Literature is introduced by survey articles, written by scholars in the field, that put the writers and works entries into the ...
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Reference Guide to Russian Literature includes entries on more than 250 Russian writers and some 300 important works of Russian literature.
The Reference Guide to Russian Literature is introduced by survey articles, written by scholars in the field, that put the writers and works entries into the contexts of history and genre. Appendices include a general bibliography of anthologies and critical studies of Russian literature, followed by a Title Index.
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Soviet Russian Literature, 1917-50

Book by Gleb Struve; University of Oklahoma Press, 1951

Subjects:

Russian Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...indispensable feature of the Russian literary scene before the...the Far East; the terrible famine which befell Eastern Russia...than to any other of the older Russian writers. Remizovs influence...shaping of post- Revolutionary Russian literature. The grim experience...
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From Chekhov to the Revolution: Russian Literature, 1900-1917

Book by Marc Slonim; Oxford University Press, 1962

Subjects:

Russian Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...gifted, the leader of the Russian educational system explained...vast regions. In 1891-2 a famine spread over an area with thirty-five...nation. He recommended that Russian society be, as it were, congealed...He saw the essence of the Russian people in absolutism, and identified...

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Journal Articles on: russian famine

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Locus of Control and Entrepreneurship in the Russian Republic

Journal article by Patrick J. Kaufmann, Dianne H.B. Welsh, Nicholas V. Bushmarin; Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Vol. 20, 1995

Subjects:

Business planning, Entrepreneurship--Russia, Russia

Collections: Entire Library

...private business is to succeed in Russia. A growing number of Russians have already begun the process of privatization, and various...private enterprise to bring Russia out of its devastation and famine brought on by the civil war in 1918-1921 (Edmondson Waldron...
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The Poor and Disabled in Early Eighteenth-Century Russian Towns

Journal article by Daniel H. Kaiser; Journal of Social History, Vol. 32, 1998

Subjects:

Cities and towns--Russia, Disabled persons--Russia, Poverty--Russia, Russia--18th century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...6) In 1558, when famine and sickness visited...the composition of Russian urban populations...peaceful for the Russian economy. There were...and another "mild famine" in 1716 caused by...Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the...Modern England," in Famine, Disease and the...
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Russian Terror/ism and Revisionist Historiography

Journal article by Ronald Grigor Suny; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 53, 2007

Subjects:

Historical revisionism--Analysis, Russia--Social aspects, Terrorism--Analysis

Collections: History, Entire Library

...was Jacobinism, Nechaevism, Russian culture, the habits of violence...repression, as well as deaths from famines, are homogenized by the various...of the civil war years), the famine of the early 1920s (the result...and early 1930s, the ensuing famine, and the Great Purges of the...
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Russian Writers Confront the Past: History, Memory, and Literature, 1953-1991

Journal article by David Gillespie; World Literature Today, Vol. 67, 1993

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...1928 to 1930, and the ensuing famine of 1933, others of the Great...DAVID GILLESPIE teaches Russian language and literature at...to reinterpret the course of Russian history, to search for the...Collectivization and the Terror-Famine , London, Hutchinson, 1986...
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The Trans-Siberian Railroad and Russia's Asia: Literature, Geopolitics, Philosophy of History

Journal article by Anindita Banerjee; CLIO, Vol. 34, 2004

Subjects:

Russia. Trans-Siberian Railway--Influence, Russian literature--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library

...not just Britain but also Ottoman Turkey, China, and Japan, Russian policymakers began to identify railroads with imperial legitimacy...the discovery of gold in Siberia in the 1830s and the 1891 famine in European Russia, rapidly transformed the Trans-Siberian...

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Magazine Articles on: russian famine

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Silent Suffering in Russia: As Russian Companies Were Privatized, Usually Given to "Former Communists" Who Stripped Them of Valuables, the Bulk of Russians Received Merely Empty Promises

Magazine article by Kurt Williamsen; The New American, Vol. 23, January 22, 2007

Subjects:

Criminal statistics, Russia--Social aspects, Russian history, 1991-, Russians--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...catastrophe not experienced in peacetime except during the famine of 1932-33 and the Stalinist terror of 1937-38," asserted Satter...the fact that Russia is experiencing a net migration gain as Russians return from former Soviet satellite countries and Chinese move...
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Spiking the Ukrainian Famine, Again

Magazine article by Peter Paluch; National Review, Vol. 38, April 11, 1986

Subjects:

Documentary television programs--Achievements and awards, Duranty, Walter--Achievements and awards, Famines, Harvest of Despair (Motion picture)--Achievements and awards, International Film and TV Festival--1986 AD, Television documentaries--Achievements and awards, Ukraine

Collections: Entire Library

...very height of the famine. To be sure, a...or affinity for, a Russian in Leningrad as does...light, the man-made famine in Ukraine speaks...relationship with the non-Russian nations of the USSR...Ukrainian word for famine, was outlawed. Long before the Ukrainian-Russian border was sealed...
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Duranty's Lethal Lies: Using Terror and Famine, Josef Stalin Murdered Millions in the Ukraine. Walter Duranty, the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, and the New York Times Covered Up the Massacre

Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 19, September 8, 2003

Subjects:

Blair, Jayson, Journalism--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...about economic stagnation and famine. The main objective of the...Russian Union, which history may regard...top journalistic expert on Russian affairs by covering such important...This order led to deportation, famine, and genocide, primarily in...
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Should This Pulitzer Be Pulled? Seventy Years after a Government-Engineered Famine Killed Millions in Ukraine, a New York Times Correspondent Who Failed to Sound the Alarm Is under Attack

Magazine article by Douglas Mccollam; Columbia Journalism Review, Vol. 42, November 2003

Subjects:

Duranty, Walter, Journalism--Analysis, Muggeridge, Malcolm

Collections: Entire Library

...but never acted to recall him. Times editors were aware of famine reports in other newspapers, and even ran editorials and stories...altering his view of Stalin as a cruel but necessary figure in Russian history. He died in Florida in 1957 with both his bank account...
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Letter from a Russian Village

Magazine article by Margaret Paxson; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 26, Spring 2002

Subjects:

Rural conditions--Russia, Russia--Rural areas

Collections: Entire Library

...and sometimes brutal. There was war and famine and family violence. But most of all...Solovovos land (like most of the land of the Russian north) was best suited to dairy production...countless small villages dotting the vast Russian countryside, the primary economy is now...

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Newspaper Articles on: russian famine

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Bolshevik Famine, Globalization, and War

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 20, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...significant event in Soviet-American history: how when a devastating famine gripped Bolshevik Russia in 1921, Herbert Hoover, a private...organized the American Relief Administration and saved millions of Russian lives. In no time flat, some 300 ARA workers and many more...
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Sports Update: Doherty Ends His Three-Year Trophy Famine; UPDATE

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), February 28, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Famine; UPDATE. KEN DOHERTY ended his three-year trophy famine last night with a 9-3 victory over Welshman Mark Williams in...yesterday. Rosset called Kafelnikov "an idiot" after the Russian deliberately tried to hit the 6ft 7in Swiss star at the net...
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Bush Asks Europe to 'Show Resolve'; the President Lists Global Problems, Such as Famine and Terror, and Challenges Leaders to Act

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 1, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...engage worldwide problems from terrorism to famine and urged the continent to "show resolve...southern Iran has been a source of U.S.-Russian friction. Mr. Bush will then head to...said that world crises such as HIV/AIDS, famine and poverty can be eradicated through...
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Aristocratic Dining, Peasant Pleasantness: Russian Tradition of Great Hospitality Has Herndon Home

Newspaper article by Allison Young; The Washington Times, August 8, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Through centuries of feast and famine, Russian hospitality has always been legend...in prosperity or hardship, the Russian people have always welcomed visitors...Beatles favorites. Combining warm Russian atmosphere, hospitality and classic...
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Who Is Russian? National Identity That Communists Nearly Destroyed

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 19, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Who is Russian? National identity that Communists...WASHINGTON TIMES Through war, man-made famine, forced urbanization, the Great Terror...Communists came very close to destroying Russian culture. The non-Russians V.I. Lenin and Joseph Stalin, however...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: russian famine

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Ukraine

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...grain for export. Millions of Ukrainians died in the resulting famine. Mykola Skrypnyk and other Ukrainian Communist leaders who...battleground both in 1941 42 (the German advance) and 1943 44 (the Russian advance). Most of Ukraines 1.5 million Jews were killed by...
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...demands, and the Finnish-Russian War of 1939 40 resulted; it...drought in 1946 caused a massive famine. Collective farming proved...as the government claimed Russian origins for nearly everything...Dec. 26 the government of the Russian Republic (see Russia ) occupied...
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Godunov, Boris

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of the ruling class chose Boris as czar. Under his rule the Russian church was recognized (1589) as an independent patriarchate...officials and townspeople at the expense of the boyars . Yet famine (1602 4) and popular distrust undermined his support, and when...
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Kyrgyzstan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...result of war devastation, there was a famine in 1921 22 in which over 500,000 Kyrgyz...Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Region within the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in...Kyrgyzstan subsequently became a member of the Russian-dominated Commonwealth of Independent...
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Finland

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Sweden and Russia. In 1696 famine wiped out almost a third of...the country was headed by a Russian governor-general (the personal...the Bolshevik success in the Russian Revolution (1917), the parliament...by early 1940 (see Finnish-Russian War ). By the treaty of Moscow...

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