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10%OFFStephen M. Norris (Ed.) - Russia´s People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present - 9780253001832 - V9780253001832
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Russia´s People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present

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Description for Russia´s People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present Paperback. Details biographies which highlight Russia 's multicultural history Editor(s): Norris, Stephen M.; Sunderland, Willard. Num Pages: 384 pages, 30 b&w illus., 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3J; GTB; HBJD; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 227 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.

A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes and economies. For six centuries this diversity was contained within the sprawling territories of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and it persists today in the entwined states and societies of the former USSR. Russia's People of Empire explores this enduring multicultural world through life stories of 31 individuals—famous and obscure, high born and low, men and women—that illuminate the cross-cultural exchanges at work from the late 1500s to post-Soviet Russia. Working on the scale of a single ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253001832
SKU
V9780253001832
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99-50

About Stephen M. Norris (Ed.)
Stephen M. Norris is Associate Professor of History at Miami University of Ohio. He is author of A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity and editor (with Helena Goscilo) of Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia (IUP, 2008) and (with Zara Torlone) of Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema (IUP, 2008). Willard Sunderland is ... Read more

Reviews for Russia´s People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present
This compilation of examples that spans 500 years of history and includes both the famous and the lesser known gives readers a more in-depth, personal understanding of how the inescapable existence of diversity in Russia and the Soviet Union related to everyday life . . . Highly recommended.
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[T]his collection offers a fresh and lively approach to ... Read more

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