[PDF] Down The Middle Volga eBook

Author : Janet M. Hartley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0300245645

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A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga--the first to fully reveal its vital place in Russian history The longest river in Europe, the Volga stretches over three and a half thousand km from the heart of Russia to the Caspian Sea, separating west from east. The river has played a crucial role in the history of the peoples who are now a part of the Russian Federation--and has united and divided the land through which it flows. Janet Hartley explores the history of Russia through the Volga from the seventh century to the present day. She looks at it as an artery for trade and as a testing ground for the Russian Empire's control of the borderlands, at how it featured in Russian literature and art, and how it was crucial for the outcome of the Second World War at Stalingrad. This vibrant account unearths what life on the river was really like, telling the story of its diverse people and its vital place in Russian history.

Author : Marq De Villiers
Publisher : New York : Viking
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780670843534

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Author combines travel writing with history and folklore as he travels along the Volga River in the heart of modern Russia.

Author : Lynne Viola
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300127820

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The collectivization of Soviet agriculture in the late 1920s and 1930s forever altered the country’s social and economic landscape. It became the first of a series of bloody landmarks that would come to define Stalinism. This revelatory book presents—with analysis and commentary—the most important primary Soviet documents dealing with the brutal economic and cultural subjugation of the Russian peasantry. Drawn from previously unavailable and in many cases unknown archives, these harrowing documents provide the first unimpeded view of the experience of the peasantry during the years 1927-1930.The book, the first of four in the series, covers the background of collectivization, its violent implementation, and the mass peasant revolt that ensued. For its insights into the horrific fate of the Russian peasantry and into Stalin’s dictatorship, The War Against the Peasantry takes its place an as unparalleled resource.

Author : Sigrid Weidenweber
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Germans
ISBN : 9781938848070

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A novel about the establishment of the German colonies along the Volga River near Saratov in the 18th century and the development of these colonies through the 19th century and up to the point of the Russian Revolution, drawn from historic source material.

Author : David W. Anthony
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1938770323

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The first English-language monograph that describes seasonal and permanent Late Bronze Age settlements in the Russian steppes, this is the final report of the Samara Valley Project, a US-Russian archaeological investigation conducted between 1995 and 2002. It explores the changing organization and subsistence resources of pastoral steppe economies from the Eneolithic (4500 BC) through the Late Bronze Age (1900-1200 BC) across a steppe-and-river valley landscape in the middle Volga region, with particular attention to the role of agriculture during the unusual episode of sedentary, settled pastoralism that spread across the Eurasian steppes with the Srubnaya and Andronovo cultures (1900-1200 BC). Three astonishing discoveries were made by the SVP archaeologists: agriculture played no role in the LBA diet across the region, a surprise given the settled residential pattern; a unique winter ritual was practiced at Krasnosamarskoe involving dog and wolf sacrifices, possibly related to male initiation ceremonies; and overlapping spheres of obligation, cooperation, and affiliation operated at different scales to integrate groups defined by politics, economics, and ritual behaviors.

Author : Lynne Viola
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Collectivization of agriculture
ISBN : 0195131045

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Based on newly declassified Soviet archives, including secret police reports, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin documents the active history of the vast peasant rebellion against collectivization between 1928-1932. Lynn Viola reveals the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to virtual civil war between state and peasantry.