[PDF] Historical Dictionary Of Medieval Russia eBook

Author : Lawrence N. Langer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1538119420

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The emergence of Russia or Rus’, as it was known, from a group of scattered Slavic tribes into one of the most powerful states of medieval and modern European history is an extraordinary story. It is a story filled with much struggle as there were historical periods when Russia almost ceased to exist as it underwent invasion and conquest. Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about medieval Russia.

Author : Robert A. Saunders
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1538120488

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Straddling Europe and Asia, the Russian Federation is the largest country in the world and home to a panoply of religious and ethnic groups from the Muslim Tatars to the Buddhist Buryats. Over the past 40 years, Russia has experienced the most dramatic transformation of any modern state. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation provides insight into this rapidly developing country. This volume includes coverage of pivotal movements, events, and persons in the late Soviet Union (1985-1991) and contemporary Russia (1991-present), This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russia.

Author : Janet Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 1995-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521368322

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This book is a concise and comprehensive narrative history of Russia from 980 to 1584. It covers the history of the realm of the Riurikid dynasty from the reign of Vladimir 1 the Saint, through to the reign of Ivan the Terrible, who sealed the end of his dynasty's rule. Presenting developments in social and economic areas, as well as in political history, foreign relations, religion and culture, Medieval Russia, 980-1584 breaks away from the traditional view of Old Russia as a static, immutable culture, and emphasises the 'dynamic' and changing qualities of Russian society. Janet Martin develops clear lines of argument that lead to conclusions concerning how and why the states and society of the lands of the Rus' assumed the forms and characteristics that they did. Broadly accessible with informative and provocative interpretations, this book provides an up-to-date analysis of medieval Russia.

Author : Daniel Bruce Rowland
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 9780520086388

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A stimulating and provocative collection, these essays challenge received notions about the culture and history of medieval Russia and offer fresh approaches to problems of textual interpretation, the theory of the medieval text, and the analysis of alternative, nonverbal texts. The contributors, international specialists from many disciplines, investigate issues ranging over history, cultural anthropology, art history, and ritual. They have produced a worthy companion to the first volume of Medieval Russian Culture, published in 1984.

Author : Basil Dmytryshyn
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Kievan Rus
ISBN : 9780875692180

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The reprinting of this classic collection of primary sources will be a welcome event to instructors of Russian history. Dmytryshyn provides a one- or two-paragraph introduction to each reading, making this selection accessible to beginning undergraduates. The documents have been drawn from chronicles, legal documents, testaments or wills, church literature, treaties, lay literature, contemporary descriptions of warfare and other events, and government documents. The sources are grouped into selections on Kievan Rus, the Mongol period, and Muscovy. Some bandw photos, a selected bibliography, and a map are included. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Jonathan Stone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0810871823

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The Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature contains a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 100 cross-referenced entries on significant people, themes, critical issues, and the most significant genres...

Author : Jonathan D. Smele
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1471 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1442252812

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This book is a detailed reference of the twentieth century struggles that were waged across and beyond the decaying Russian Empire at the end of the First World War, as tsarism and democratic alternatives to it collapsed and the world’s first Communist state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was born. At the same time, it is a necessary corrective to studies that have viewed events of the time as a unitary “Russian Civil War” that sprang from the Russian Revolution of 1917. Instead, it contributes to the ongoing process of integrating the civil wars into a “continuum of crises” that wracked the Russian Empire and its would-be successor states across a prolonged period. The Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926 covers the history of this period through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has almost 2,000 cross-referenced entries on individuals, political and governmental institutions and political parties, and military formations and concepts, as well as religion, art, film, propaganda, uniforms, and weaponry. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Russian Civil War.

Author : Lawrence N. Langer
Publisher : A to Z Guide Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2010-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810875708

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History is full of surprises, but rarely has there been a turnaround as unexpected, and momentous as what occurred to a formative Russia during the medieval period. Attacked and invaded from all sides, it hardly looked as if the small Slavic principalities would survive. But they did and were eventually absorbed into Kiev Rus' and then Muscovy, which gradually expanded and laid the foundation for a huge empire. The author uncovers this extraordinary period, from the founding of the Kievan state to the accession of Peter the Great in 1682, describing both the times of danger and defeat and those of expansion and revitalization. Entries cover: o Tsars o Princes and khans o Pretenders and rebels o Patriarchs and priests o Russians o Mongols and others