Author: Harlow Robinson
Publisher: Northeastern
Keywords: russians, hollywood, image, biography
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-11-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1555536867
ISBN-13: 9781555536862
This book is the first look at the colorful yet largely unknown story of Russian emigres who worked in the American film industry, and the representation of Russians and Soviets in Hollywood movies. Among the artists who gravitated towards Hollywood in the 1920s and ’30s were the legendary directors Lewis Milestone and Rouben Mamoulian, composers Dmitri Tiomkin and Constantin Bakaleinikoff, and actors Alla Nazimova, Akim Tamiroff, and Maria Ouspenskaya. Many had to overcome obstacles of heavy accents, being cut off from their cultural base, being forced to work beneath their talents, and
Author: Colin Thubron
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: russians, among
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0060959290
ISBN-13: 9780060959296
Here is a fresh perspective on the last tumultuous years of the Soviet Union and an exquisitely poetic travelogue. With a keen grasp of Russia’s history, a deep appreciation for its architecture and iconography, and an inexhaustible enthusiasm for its people and its culture, Colin Thubron is the perfect guide to a country most of us will never get to know firsthand. Here, we can walk down western Russia’s country roads, rest in its villages, and explore some of the most engaging cities in the world. Beautifully written and infinitely insightful, Among the Russians is vivid, comp
Author: Paul Kolstoe
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: republics, soviet, former, russians
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1995-06-01
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0253329175
ISBN-13: 9780253329172
"Well-written and well-documented, this volume provides an excellent overview of the history, current state, and possible future of the ’Russian diaspora’ as well as a more than adequate review of the academic literature on the topic. More important, it does so in a straightforward, accessible style that makes it a natural choice for both the general reader and specialist and for any upper level undergraduate or graduate course on modern Russia and ’the near abroad.’ Indeed, the selected bibliography, maps, and tables alone justify the book’s purchase." -- Slavic
Author: Geoffrey Hosking
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: history, russians, russia
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2003-05-30
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0674011147
ISBN-13: 9780674011144
From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge, flat expanse dominates the Eurasian continent. Here, over more than a thousand years, the history and destiny of Russia have unfolded. In a sweeping narrative, one of the English-speaking world’s leading historians of Russia follows this story from the first emergence of the Slavs in the historical record in the sixth century C.E. to the Russians’ persistent appearances in today�s headlines. Hosking’s is a monumental story of competing legacies, of an enormous power uneasily balanced between
Author: Lydia Black
Publisher: University of Alaska Pre
Keywords: alaska, russians
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1889963046
ISBN-13: 9781889963044
This definitive work, the crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia T. Black, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian presence in Alaska. Drawing on extensive archival research and employing documents only recently made available to scholars, Black shows how Russian expansion was the culmination of centuries of social and economic change. Black?s work challenges the standard perspective on the Russian period in Alaska as a time of unbridled exploitation of Native inhabitants and natural resources. Without glossing over the harsher aspects of the period,
Author: Yale Richmond
Publisher: Intercultural Pr
Keywords: series, interact, russians, understanding, nyet
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 1992-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1877864080
ISBN-13: 9781877864087
Non-fiction, how to understand Russians.
Authors:Michael Phillips, Judith Pella,
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Keywords: book, russians, triumph, travail
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0764224662
ISBN-13: 9780764224669
All around them, the Russia they have known is crumbling. Can faith in God bring triumph out of their tragedy? The noble house of Fedorcenko has much to rejoice in: the marriage of Princess Katrina, the anticipation of a new baby, the return of Prince Sergi. But life does not end as a fairy tale. Even as they celebrate, rebel forces are at work to overthrow the tsarand the house of Fedorcenko as well. In this compelling sequel to A House Divided, Michael Phillips and Judith Pella continue the saga of two familiesthe aristocratic family of Fedorcenko and the humble peasants from Katyk, the B
