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Adventures in Russian Historical Research

Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present

By: Samuel H. Baron,Cathy Frierson

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Adventures in Russian Historical Research

Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present

By: Samuel H. Baron,Cathy Frierson

American historians of Russia have always been an intrepid lot. Their research trips were spent not in Cambridge or Paris, Rome or Berlin, but in Soviet dormitories with official monitors. They were seeking access to a historical record that was purposefully shrouded in secrecy, boxed up and locked away in closed archives. Their efforts, indeed their curiosity itself, sometimes raised suspicion at home as well as in a Soviet Union that did not want to be known even while it felt misunderstood. This lively volume brings together the reflections of twenty leading specialists on Russian history representing four generations. They relate their experiences as historians and researchers in Russia from the first academic exchanges in the 1950s through the Cold War years, detente, glasnost, and the first post-Soviet decade. Their often moving, acutely observed stories of Russian academic life record dramatic change both in the historical profession and in the society that they have devoted their careers to understanding.

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Routledge

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131747774X

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9781317477747

All Russia Is Burning!

A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia

By: Cathy A. Frierson

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All Russia Is Burning!

A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia

By: Cathy A. Frierson

Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia, as Cathy Frierson shows in this first comprehensive study. Destroying almost three billion rubles’ worth of property in European Russia between 1860 and 1904, accidental and arson fires acted as a brake on Russia’s economic development while subjecting peasants to perennial shocks to their physical and emotional condition. The fire question captured the attention of educated, progressive Russians, who came to perceived it as a key obstacle to Russia’s becoming a modern society in the European model. Using sources ranging from literary representations and newspaper articles to statistical tables and court records, Frierson demonstrates the many meanings fire held for both peasants and the educated elite. To peasants, it was an essential source of light and warmth as well as a destructive force that regularly ignited their cramped villages of wooden, thatch-roofed huts. Absent the rule of law, they often used arson to gain justice or revenge, or to exert social control over those who would violate village norms. Frierson shows that the vast majority of arson cases in European Russia were not peasant-against-gentry acts of protest but peasant-against-peasant acts of "self-help" law or plain spite. Both the state and individual progressives set out to resolve the fire question and to educate, cajole, or coerce the peasantry into the modern world. Fire insurance, building codes, "scientific" village layouts, and volunteer firefighting brigades reduced the average number of buildings consumed in each blaze, but none of these measures succeeded in curbing the number of fires each year. More than anything else, this history of fire and arson in rural European Russia is a history of their cultural meanings in the late imperial campaign for modernity. Frierson shows the special associations of women with fire in rural life and in elite understanding of fire in the Russian countryside. Her study of the fire question demonstrates both peasant agency in fighting fire and educated Russians' hardening conviction that peasants stood in the way of Russia's advent into the company of prosperous, rational, civilized nations.

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330

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University of Washington Press

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0295801468

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9780295801469

Children of the Gulag

By: Cathy A. Frierson,Semen Samuilovich Vilenskiĭ

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Children of the Gulag

By: Cathy A. Frierson,Semen Samuilovich Vilenskiĭ

A comprehensive documentary history of children whose parents were identified as enemies of the Soviet regime, from its inception through Joesph Stalin's death. With top-secret documents in translation from the Russian state archives, memoirs, and interviews with child survivors

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Yale University Press

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0300122934

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9780300122930

Silence Was Salvation

Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union

By: Cathy A. Frierson

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Silence Was Salvation

Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union

By: Cathy A. Frierson

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era, the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, scientists, physicians, and political leaders considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order. Ten grown victims, who as children suffered banishment, starvation, disease, anti-Semitism, and trauma resulting from their parents’ condemnation and arrest, now freely share their stories. The result is a powerful and moving oral history that will profoundly deepen the reader’s understanding of life in the U.S.S.R. under the despotic reign of Joseph Stalin.

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Yale University Press

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0300210736

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9780300210736

Agenda for Reform

Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71

By: Cathy Kunzinger Urwin

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Agenda for Reform

Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71

By: Cathy Kunzinger Urwin

When Winthrop Rockefeller was elected governor of Arkansas in 1966, he became the first Republican to hold the governor's office since Reconstruction. Cathy Kunzinger Urwin examines Rockefeller's tenure by looking beyond his immediate successes and failures to the broader, dramatic changes that marked the era. Rockefeller helped break up the political machines that had controlled Arkansas politics for almost a hundred years, made lasting contributions in the areas of prison reform and civil rights, and obliged the Democratic Party to find Dale Bumpers, a young, bright, progressive gubernatorial candidate to oppose him in 1970.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557282005

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9781557282002

Music and Social Justice

A Guide for Elementary Educators

By: Cathy Benedict

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Music and Social Justice

A Guide for Elementary Educators

By: Cathy Benedict

In this book author Cathy Benedict challenges and reframes traditional ways of addressing many of the topics we have come to think of as social justice. Offering practical suggestions for helping both teachers and students think philosophically (and thus critically) about the world around them, each chapter engages with important themes through music making and learning as it presents scenarios, examples of dialogue with students, unit ideas and lesson plans geared toward elementary students (ages 6-14). Taken-for-granted subjects often considered beyond the understanding of elementary students such as friendship, racism, poverty, religion, and class are addressed and interrogated in such a way that honours the voice and critical thinking of the elementary student. Suggestions are given that help both teachers and students to pause, reflect and redirect dialogue with questions that uncover bias, misinformation and misunderstandings that too often stand in the way of coming to know and embracing difference. Guiding questions, which anchor many curricular mandates, are used throughout in order to scaffold critical and reflective thinking beginning in the earliest grades of elementary music education. Where does social justice reside? Whose voice is being heard and whose is being silenced? How do we come to think of and construct poverty? How is it that musics become used the way they are used? What happens to songs initially intended for socially driven purposes when their significance is undermined? These questions and more are explored encouraging music teachers to embrace a path toward socially just engagements at the elementary and middle school levels.

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Oxford University Press

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0190062150

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All Russia is Burning!

A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia

By: Cathy A. Frierson

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All Russia is Burning!

A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia

By: Cathy A. Frierson

The burning of land and buildings was commonplace in Russia, as Frierson (history, U. of New Hampshire) writes in this compelling history on the causes of the fires and their impact on society. The formation of fire departments and building laws, the political and personal motivations for arson, and the daily lives and concerns of Russian peasants are some of the themes discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0295982098

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9780295982090

Silence was Salvation

Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union

By: Cathy A. Frierson

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Silence was Salvation

Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union

By: Cathy A. Frierson

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era, the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, scientists, physicians, and political leaders considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order. Ten grown victims, who as children suffered banishment, starvation, disease, anti-Semitism, and trauma resulting from their parents' condemnation and arrest, now freely share their stories. The result is a powerful and moving oral history that will profoundly deepen the reader's understanding of life in the U.S.S.R. under the despotic reign of Joseph Stalin.

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Adventures in Russian Historical Research

Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present

By: Samuel H. Baron,Cathy Frierson

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Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present

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Children of the Gulag

By: Cathy A. Frierson,Semen Samuilovich Vilenskiĭ

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Peasant Icons

Representations of Rural People in Late Nineteenth Century Russia

By: Cathy A. Frierson

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Peasant Icons

Representations of Rural People in Late Nineteenth Century Russia

By: Cathy A. Frierson

In the thirty years after Russian peasants were emancipated in 1861, they became a major focus of Russian intellectual life. This text is the first to examine the revealing images of the peasant created by Russian writers, scholars, journalists, and government officials during that period, as the identity and fate of the Russian peasant became an integral component in the future of Russia envisioned by liberal reformers and conservatives alike. Frierson examines the persisting stereotypes created by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and other intellectuals seeking to understand village life, from the likable narod, the simple folk, to the exploitative kulak, the village strongman.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195072944

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Cathy Reeder Story

By: Cathy Reeder

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Cathy Reeder Story

By: Cathy Reeder

Cathy Reeder Story By: Cathy Reeder Cathy Reeder’s Story is all about overcoming adversity, never giving up on your dreams no matter who or what comes against you and to keep putting your faith in Jesus, who never fails and who never lies. Walking in weakness, you must realize you are someone’s answer; so it’s time to get it out, dust it off, and try again. Reeder’s profound story is for all those who have given up on their dreams because someone told them no. For all those who have been rejected and didn’t get what you worked hard for and then gave up. And for all those women who get pregnant at a young age, don’t give up on your dreams.

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1637644477

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Book's by Cathy Frierson

Adventures in Russian Historical Research

Adventures in Russian Historical Research

All Russia Is Burning!

All Russia Is Burning!

Children of the Gulag

Children of the Gulag

Silence Was Salvation

Silence Was Salvation

Agenda for Reform

Agenda for Reform

Music and Social Justice

Music and Social Justice

All Russia is Burning!

All Russia is Burning!

Silence was Salvation

Silence was Salvation

Adventures in Russian Historical Research

Adventures in Russian Historical Research

Children of the Gulag

Children of the Gulag

Peasant Icons

Peasant Icons

Cathy Reeder Story

Cathy Reeder Story

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