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  • The French Language in Russia

    A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History

    by Derek Offord, Vladislav Rjéoutski, Gesine Argent ...
    Series series Languages and Culture in History
    With support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK and the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau , The French Language in Russia provides the fullest examination and discussion to date of the adoption of the French language. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia

    The Origins of an Icon of the American Right

    by Professor Derek Offord ...
    Series series Russian Shorts
    This book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), which Rand considered her definitive statement about the need for an unregulated free market in which superior humans could fully realize themselves by living for no-one but themselves. It explores Rand's conception of American identity, which exalted individualism and ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • European Francophonie

    The Social, Political and Cultural History of an International Prestige Language

    Edited by Vladislav Rjéoutski, Gesine Argent, Derek Offord ...
    Series Book 1 - Historical Sociolinguistics
    This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomenon of French language usage is explored in a wide variety of communities, namely Bohemian, Dutch, medieval English, German (Prussian), Italian, Piedmontese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Each chapter offers unique insight into ... Read more

    $111.29 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Russia

    Opposition to Autocracy

    by Derek Offord ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    This new Seminar Study provides students with a rewarding introduction to nineteenth-century Russia. This period of Russian history is, of course, characterised by the flowering of an enormously rich intellectual and cultural life, the origins of which lie in the intelligentsia¿s opposition to autocratic rule. Here, Professor Offord introduces the reader to the period while focusing particularly ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • French and Russian in Imperial Russia

    Language Use among the Russian Elite

    Edited by Derek Offord ...
    Series series Russian Language and Society

    $92.19 USD

  • French and Russian in Imperial Russia

    Language Attitudes and Identity

    Edited by Derek Offord ...
    Series series Russian Language and Society

    $92.19 USD

  • A History of Russian Thought

    Edited by William Leatherbarrow, Derek Offord ...
    The history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This history examines important intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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  • A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world

    China's Struggle with the Modern World

    by Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Making of the Modern World
    China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Wisdom of Mao

    by Philosophical Library ...
    Series series Wisdom
    Beyond the Little Red Book: China's revolutionary leader and his philosophyIn this collection of essays, China's Chairman Mao Tse-Tung explains the interpretation of Marxism-Leninism ideology that became known as Maoism. This philosophy fueled the Chinese Revolution and the massive social and economic changes Mao instituted as the nation's leader. From examining the way contradictions can cause ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dreyfus Affair

    The Scandal That Tore France in Two

    by Piers Paul Read ...
    July 20, 1894. The German Military Attache in Paris. Colonel Maximillien von Schwarzkoppen received a visit from a seedy-looking middle-aged Frenchman who would not give his name. He told Schwarzkoppen that he was a French army officer serving on the General Staff; that he was in desperate need of money; and was therefore prepared to sell military secrets to the Germans.Captain Alfred Dreyfus, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin

    by Michel Eltchaninoff ...
    The Russian president's landmark speeches, interviews and policies borrow heavily from great Russian thinkers past and present, from Peter the Great to Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn. They offer powerful visions of strong leaders and the Russian nation: they value conservatism and the Slavic spirit. They root morality in Orthodoxy, and Russian identity in the historic struggle with the West. Today, ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Burden of the Past

    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper ...
    Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture: "A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory." —Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus UniversityIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus