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Leo Tolstoy

By: Andrei Zorin

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When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry, and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer’s momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his beloved parents and tortuous courtship to a deep spiritual crisis and an abandonment of the social class into which he had been born. He also made several attempts to break up with literature, but each time he returned to writing. In this original and comprehensive biography, Andrei Zorin skillfully pieces together the life of one of the greatest novelists of all time. He offers both an innovative account of Tolstoy’s deepest feelings, emotions, and motives, as reflected in his personal diaries and letters, and a brilliant interpretation of his major works, including his celebrated novels on contemporary Russian society, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and his significant philosophical writings.

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1789142563

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The Emergence of a Hero

A Tale of Romantic Love in Russia Around 1800

By: Andrei Zorin,Leo Shtutin

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The Emergence of a Hero

A Tale of Romantic Love in Russia Around 1800

By: Andrei Zorin,Leo Shtutin

The Emergence of a Hero is dedicated to the history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the epoch when the court Masonic lodges and literature were competing for the monopoly on the 'symbolic images of feeling' that an educated and Europeanised Russian was supposed to interiorize and reproduce. The case study in the centre of the study is the story of the life and death of Andrei Turgenev (1781-1803), the author of a confessional diary, a gifted poet, and an early Russian Romantic who failed to live up to the principles and models he cherished. Brought up on the patterns of emotions he found in works of Rousseau, Sterne, and the authors of Sturm and Drang, he soon found them too narrow for his individuality, and navigated towards a more mature nineteenth century Romanticism, but was not able to make this transition. Turgenev experimented not so much in his literary work as in his life. The reconstruction of this convoluted and enigmatic case is based on archival research and innovative analysis of individual emotional experience.

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Oxford University Press

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0198852169

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By Fables Alone

Literature and State Ideology in Late-Eighteenth – Early-Nineteenth-Century Russia

By: Andrei Zorin

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By Fables Alone

Literature and State Ideology in Late-Eighteenth – Early-Nineteenth-Century Russia

By: Andrei Zorin

Academic Studies Press is proud to present this translation of Professor Andrei Zorin’s seminal Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in English, including “The People’s War: The Time of Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806-1807” and “Holy Alliances: V. A. Zhukovskii’s Epistle ‘To Emperor Alexander’ and Christian Universalism.”

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1618119095

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On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825

The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite

By: Andreas Schönle,Andrei Zorin

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On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825

The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite

By: Andreas Schönle,Andrei Zorin

Throughout the eighteenth century, the Russian elite assimilated the ideas, emotions, and practices of the aristocracy in Western countries to various degrees, while retaining a strong sense of their distinctive identity. In On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825, Andreas Schönle and Andrei Zorin examine the principal manifestations of Europeanization for Russian elites in their daily lives, through the import of material culture, the adoption of certain social practices, travel, reading patterns, and artistic consumption. The authors consider five major sites of Europeanization: court culture, religion, education, literature, and provincial life. The Europeanization of the Russian elite paradoxically strengthened its pride in its Russianness, precisely because it participated in networks of interaction and exchange with European elites and shared in their linguistic and cultural capital. In this way, Europeanization generated forms of sociability that helped the elite consolidate its corporate identity as distinct from court society and also from the people. The Europeanization of Russia was uniquely intense, complex, and pervasive, as it aimed not only to emulate forms of behavior, but to forge an elite that was intrinsically European, while remaining Russian. The second of a two-volume project (the first is a multi-authored collection of case studies), this insightful study will appeal to scholars and students of Russian and East European history and culture, as well as those interested in transnational processes.

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Cornell University Press

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1609092414

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The Emergence of a Hero

A Tale of Romantic Love in Russia around 1800

By: Andrei Zorin

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A Tale of Romantic Love in Russia around 1800

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Leo Tolstoy

By: Andrei Zorin

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Leo Tolstoy

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By Fables Alone

Literature and State Ideology in Late-Eighteenth – Early-Nineteenth-Century Russia

By: Andrei Zorin

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Literature and State Ideology in Late-Eighteenth – Early-Nineteenth-Century Russia

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Russian Colonization of Alaska

Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 1741-1799

By: Andrei Val'terovich Grinëv

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Russian Colonization of Alaska

Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 1741-1799

By: Andrei Val'terovich Grinëv

In Russian Colonization of Alaska, Andrei Val'terovich Grinëv examines the sociohistorical origins of the former Russian colonies in Alaska, or "Russian America," between 1741 and 1799. Beginning with the Second Kamchatka Expedition of Vitus Ivanovich Bering and Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov's discovery of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and ending with the formation of the Russian-American Company's monopoly of the Russian colonial endeavor in the Americas, Russian Colonization of Alaska offers a definitive, revisionist examination of Tsarist Russia's foray into the imperial contest in North America. Russian Colonization of Alaska is the first comprehensive study to analyze the origin and evolution of Russian colonization based on research into political economy, history, and ethnography. Grinёv's study elaborates the social, political, spiritual, ideological, personal, and psychological aspects of Russian America. He also accounts for the idiosyncrasies of the natural environment, competition from other North American empires, Alaska Natives, and individual colonial diplomats. The colonization of Alaska, rather than being simply a continuation of the colonization of Siberia by Russians, was instead part of overarching Russian and global history.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496210832

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Stochastic Models Of Tumor Latency And Their Biostatistical Applications

By: Alexander D Tsodikov,Andrei Yu Yakovlev,B Asselain

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Stochastic Models Of Tumor Latency And Their Biostatistical Applications

By: Alexander D Tsodikov,Andrei Yu Yakovlev,B Asselain

This research monograph discusses newly developed mathematical models and methods that provide biologically meaningful inferences from data on cancer latency produced by follow-up and discrete surveillance studies. Methods for designing optimal strategies of cancer surveillance are systematically presented for the first time in this book. It offers new approaches to the stochastic description of tumor latency, employs biologically-based models for making statistical inference from data on tumor recurrence and also discusses methods of statistical analysis of data resulting from discrete surveillance strategies. It also offers insight into the role of prognostic factors based on the interpretation of their effects in terms of parameters endowed with biological meaning, as well as methods for designing optimal schedules of cancer screening and surveillance. Last but not least, it discusses survival models allowing for cure rates and the choice of optimal treatment based on covariate information, and presents numerous examples of real data analysis.

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World Scientific

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9814501840

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9789814501842

The Candy Bombers

The Untold Story of the Berlin Aircraft and America's Finest Hour

By: Andrei Cherny

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The Candy Bombers

The Untold Story of the Berlin Aircraft and America's Finest Hour

By: Andrei Cherny

In the tradition of the great narrative storytellers, Andrei Cherny recounts the exhilarating saga of the unlikely men who made the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history. “What an exciting, inspiring, and wonderfully-written book this is....Each page has lessons for today, and it is also a thrilling narrative to read.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Steve Jobs The Candy Bombers is a remarkable story with profound implications for our own time. Cherny tells the tale of the ill-assorted group of castoffs and secondstringers who not only saved millions of desperate people from a dire threat, but also won the hearts of America’s defeated enemies, inspired people around the world to believe in America’s fundamental goodness, avoided World War III, and won the greatest battle of the Cold War without firing a shot. With newly unclassified documents, unpublished letters and diaries, and fresh primary interviews, The Candy Bombers takes readers along as American pilots, with only a few small rickety planes, manage to feed and supply West Berlin completely by air for nearly a year; as Harry Truman exploits the very real threat of war to win an upset reelection campaign; as America’s first secretary of defense descends into madness in the midst of a dangerous military crisis; and as a lovesick American pilot shows that acts of basic human kindness can send powerful ripples through the course of history.

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Penguin

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1440635951

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A Contested Borderland

Competing Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

By: Andrei Cusco

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A Contested Borderland

Competing Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

By: Andrei Cusco

Bessarabia?mostly occupied by modern-day republic of Moldova?was the only territory representing an object of rivalry and symbolic competition between the Russian Empire and a fully crystallized nation-state: the Kingdom of Romania. This book is an intellectual prehistory of the Bessarabian problem, focusing on the antagonism of the national and imperial visions of this contested periphery. Through a critical reassessment and revision of the traditional historical narratives, the study argues that Bessarabia was claimed not just by two opposing projects of ?symbolic inclusion,? but also by two alternative and theoretically antagonistic models of political legitimacy. By transcending the national lens of Bessarabian / Moldovan history and viewing it in the broader Eurasian comparative context, the book responds to the growing tendency in recent historiography to focus on the peripheries in order to better understand the functioning of national and imperial states in the modern era. ÿ

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Central European University Press

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9633861594

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The New Nobility

The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB

By: Andrei Soldatov,Irina Borogan

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The New Nobility

The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB

By: Andrei Soldatov,Irina Borogan

In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service. While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse. The security services have played a central -- and often mysterious -- role at key turning points in Russia during these tumultuous years: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya and the Beslan massacre. The security services are not all-powerful; they have made clumsy and sometimes catastrophic blunders. But what is clear is that after the chaotic 1990s, when they were sidelined, they have made a remarkable return to power, abetted by their most famous alumnus, Putin.

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PublicAffairs

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1586489232

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High Frequency Processes in Magnetic Materials

By: Gopalan Srinivasan,Andrei N. Slavin

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High Frequency Processes in Magnetic Materials

By: Gopalan Srinivasan,Andrei N. Slavin

This review volume deals with recent advances in topics of importance to scientists and engineers involved in research and device development utilizing magnetic oxides and multilayers. The subject matter covered includes linear and nonlinear high frequency magnetic excitations and interaction between magnons and photons. In particular, this book contains detailed discussion on the detection of magnons by Brillouin light scattering and photothermal spectroscopy, interaction between spin waves and optical guided modes, microwave solitons, and spin wave instabilities. Recent advances in traditional characterization techniques such as ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic resonance, and in studies on magnetic order in noncrystalline oxides are also presented.

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World Scientific

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9810218168

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On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825

The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite

By: Andreas Schönle,Andrei Zorin

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The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite

By: Andreas Schönle,Andrei Zorin

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

The Emergence of a Hero

The Emergence of a Hero

By Fables Alone

By Fables Alone

On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825

On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825

The Emergence of a Hero

The Emergence of a Hero

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

By Fables Alone

By Fables Alone

Russian Colonization of Alaska

Russian Colonization of Alaska

Stochastic Models Of Tumor Latency And Their Biostatistical Applications

Stochastic Models Of Tumor Latency And Their Biostatistical Applications

The Candy Bombers

The Candy Bombers

A Contested Borderland

A Contested Borderland

The New Nobility

The New Nobility

High Frequency Processes in Magnetic Materials

High Frequency Processes in Magnetic Materials

On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825

On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825

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