[PDF] The Red Book Of The Peoples Of The Russian Empire eBook

Author : Margus Kolga
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 994933098X

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The publisher of this book was a man who was born in 1938, in a free and democratic country (Estonia), with Estonian identity and citizenship. That all was amended in 1940 by Russian Empire as a result of the occupation of a sovereign country. The book was written with help of leading specialists of that time and with an attempt to stay neutral, almost as bystanders. The purpose was to describe cultures and ethnic groups of people who have suffered or have been eradicated under the power of "Russian Empire." Oppression of neighbors has taken place for over 500 years, and continues even today with Russian Federation changing daily into more totalitarian and dangerous state in an attempt to restore its former glory. Also Russian Federation is the only surviving colonial country in the world, from whose clutches have fled only a few nations, who gained sovereignty. Still this is not an complete view of the Empire, because the 84 nations covered in this book is only a third of more than 200 nations and cultures, whose fate is evanesce and disappearance into the larger Russian population by aggressive social politics. This relentless process is irreparable loss to world cultural heritage, diversity and democratic freedoms. On the other hand, it is also a loss to these nations economy, because the aggressor ravages and robs natural resources while destroying the environment. The idea of the book the author, publisher and financier a Thomas Niimann.

Author : Stephen M. Norris
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253001765

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This book explores the multicultural world of historical Russia through the life stories of 31 individuals that exemplify the cross-cultural exchanges in the country from the late 1500s to post-Soviet Russia.

Author : Daniel R. Brower
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 1997-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253211132

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From a 1994 conference (U. of California, Berkeley), Borderlands Research Group participants present their findings based on unprecedented access to the hinterlands of what is the now the CIS. Fourteen contributors provide context for the current self- deterministic ethnic turmoil in Chechyna and elsewhere far from the Kremlin, via discussions of tsarist colonial policies and historical, heartland majority attitudes toward the "ignoble savages and unfaithful subjects" (read Muslim) of Russia's diverse Orient. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230622828

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 283. Chapters: Tatars, Romani people, Sami people, Demographics of Russia, Evenks, History of Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union, Ashkenazi Jews, Chukchi people, Buryats, Koryaks, Bulgarians, Dungan people, Ukrainians, Eskimo, Bashkirs, Khanty people, Yukaghir people, Russians, Kazakhs, Nenets people, Kabarday, Azerbaijani people, Kalmyk people, Armenians, Turkish people, Hungarian people, List of ethnic groups in Russia, Sakhalin Koreans, Romanians, Adyghe people, Ukrainians in Russia, Kuban Cossacks, Hemshin peoples, Moldovans, Nivkh people, Poles, Koryo-saram, Terek Cossacks, Sirenik Eskimos, Mordvins, Pontic Greeks, Rusyns, Georgians, Ethnic Chinese in Russia, Chechen people, Qaraei, Meskhetian Turks, Ossetians, Gagauz people, Volga Germans, Tuvans, Siberian Yupik, Ket people, List of small-numbered indigenous peoples of Russia, Greeks in Russia and the Soviet Union, Volga Tatars, Karelians, Itelmens, Nani people, Japanese people in Russia, Indigenous peoples of Siberia, Shapsugs, Belarusians in Russia, Votes, Udi people, Karachays, First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union, Ingrian Finns, Nogais, Azeris in Russia, Vistula Germans, Duchers, Armenians in Russia, Kumandins, Population genetics of the Sami, Ingush people, Yakuts, Chuvash people, Turks in Russia, North Koreans in Russia, Vietnamese people in Russia, Orok people, Na aybak, Germans from Russia, Vepsians, Balkars, Ruska Roma, Altay people, Swiss emigration to Russia, Afro-Russian, Polish minority in Russia, Setos, Mari people, Izhorians, Meshchera, Indians in Russia, Nganasan people, Kola Norwegians, Cherkesogai, Telengits, Alyutors, Khakas people, Places inhabited by Rusyns, Komi peoples, Evens, Mansi people, Lyuli, Skolts, Natukhai people, Uriankhai, Kalderash, Abazins, The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire, Circassians Majlis, Alt Danzig, List...

Author : Yuri Slezkine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1501703307

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For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale. "They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people," complained a seventeenth-century Cossack. "Their actions are exceedingly rude. They do not take off their hats and do not bow to each other," huffed an eighteenth-century scholar. They are "children of nature" and "guardians of ecological balance," rhapsodized early nineteenth-century and late twentieth-century romantics. Even the Bolsheviks, who categorized the circumpolar foragers as "authentic proletarians," were repeatedly puzzled by the "peoples from the late Neolithic period who, by virtue of their extreme backwardness, cannot keep up either economically or culturally with the furious speed of the emerging socialist society."Whether described as brutes, aliens, or endangered indigenous populations, the so-called small peoples of the north have consistently remained a point of contrast for speculations on Russian identity and a convenient testing ground for policies and images that grew out of these speculations. In Arctic Mirrors, a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire and the Russian mind, Yuri Slezkine offers the first in-depth interpretation of this relationship. No other book in any language links the history of a colonized non-Russian people to the full sweep of Russian intellectual and cultural history. Enhancing his account with vintage prints and photographs, Slezkine reenacts the procession of Russian fur traders, missionaries, tsarist bureaucrats, radical intellectuals, professional ethnographers, and commissars who struggled to reform and conceptualize this most "alien" of their subject populations.Slezkine reconstructs from a vast range of sources the successive official policies and prevailing attitudes toward the northern peoples, interweaving the resonant narratives of Russian and indigenous contemporaries with the extravagant images of popular Russian fiction. As he examines the many ironies and ambivalences involved in successive Russian attempts to overcome northern—and hence their own—otherness, Slezkine explores the wider issues of ethnic identity, cultural change, nationalist rhetoric, and not-so European colonialism.

Author : Stephen Anthony Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0198734824

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The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the nineteenth century, through the First World War and the revolutions of 1917 and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime, to the end of the 1920s, when Stalin simultaneously unleashed violent collectivization of agriculture and crash industrialization upon Russian society. Drawing on recent archivally-based scholarship, Russia in Revolution pays particular attention to the varying impact of the Revolution on the various groups that made up society: peasants, workers, non-Russian nationalities, the army, women and the family, young people, and the Church. In doing so, it provides a fresh way into the big, perennial questions about the Revolution and its consequences: why did the attempt by the tsarist government to implement political reform after the 1905 Revolution fail?; why did the First World War bring about the collapse of the tsarist system?; why did the attempt to create a democratic system after the February Revolution of 1917 not get off the ground?; why did the Bolsheviks succeed in seizing and holding on to power?; why did they come out victorious from a punishing civil war?; why did the New Economic Policy they introduced in 1921 fail?; and why did Stalin come out on top in the power struggle inside the Bolshevik party after Lenin's death in 1924? A final chapter then reflects on the larger significance of 1917 for the history of the twentieth century - and, for all its terrible flaws, what the promise of the Revolution might mean for us today.

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Signal
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0771009313

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Winner of the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, a revelatory history of Stalin's greatest crime. In 1929, Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people perished between 1931 and 1933 in the U.S.S.R. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum reveals for the first time that three million of them died not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy, but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: that Stalin set out to exterminate a vast swath of the Ukrainian population and replace them with more cooperative, Russian-speaking peasants. A peaceful Ukraine would provide the Soviets with a safe buffer between itself and Europe, and would be a bread basket region to feed Soviet cities and factory workers. When the province rebelled against collectivization, Stalin sealed the borders and began systematic food seizures. Starving, people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil.

Author : Philip Longworth
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1429916869

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Through the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these dramatic cycles of boom and bust from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible, and from the height of Communism to the truncated Russia of today. Philip Longworth explores the dynamics of Russia's past through time and space, from the nameless adventurers who first penetrated this vast, inhospitable terrain to a cast of dynamic characters that includes Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, and Stalin. His narrative takes in the magnificent, historic cities of Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg; it stretches to Alaska in the east, to the Black Sea and the Ottoman Empire to the south, to the Baltic in the west and to Archangel and the Artic Ocean to the north. Who are the Russians and what is the source of their imperialistic culture? Why was Russia so driven to colonize and conquer? From Kievan Rus'---the first-ever Russian state, which collapsed with the invasion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century---to ruthless Muscovy, the Russian Empire of the eighteenth century and finally the Soviet period, this groundbreaking study analyses the growth and dissolution of each vast empire as it gives way to the next. Refreshing in its insight and drawing on a vast range of scholarship, this book also explicitly addresses the question of what the future holds for Russia and her neighbors, and asks whether her sphere of influence is growing.