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The Germans of the Soviet Union

By: Irina Mukhina

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The Germans of the Soviet Union

By: Irina Mukhina

The Germans were a very substantial minority in Russia, and many leading figures, including the Empress Catherine the Great, were German. Using rarely seen archival information, this book provides an account of the experiences of the Germans living in the Soviet Union from the early post-revolution period to the post-Soviet era following the collapse of communism. Setting out the history of this minority group and explaining how they were affected by the Soviet regime’s nationality policies, the book: describes the character of the ethnic Germanic groups, demonstrating their diversity before the execution of the policy of systematic deportations by the Stalinist authorities from 1937 to 1947 argues that there was not one but several episodes of deportation within this period considers the different dimensions of this policy, including the legal and economic structures of, and everyday life in, the Soviet special settlements investigates the ‘women’s dimension’ of deportation, especially the role of women in the preservation of ethnic identity among the afflicted groups explores the long term consequences of Soviet deportations and exile on the identity of the Soviet Germans.

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1134134010

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Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism

A History of the Shuttle Trade

By: Irina Mukhina

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Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism

A History of the Shuttle Trade

By: Irina Mukhina

Little has been known, acknowledged, or studied about the shuttle trade, one of the major manifestations of new Russian life of the 1990s. The term itself seems to suggest something of a rather small scale. Indeed, the amount of each transaction in this trade was miniscule. Individual peddlers traveled to near-abroad with their bulging bags and brought back home for resale only as many goods as they could personally carry in their enormous suitcases. The phenomenon hidden behind the term "shuttle trade" was by no means insignificant or small in scale. By the mid-1990s, it constituted the backbone of Russian consumer trade and was a substantial source of revenue. The primary participants in the shuttle trade were women, and in this enlightening study Mukhina assesses the reasons why women were attracted to this business, the range of the personal experiences of female shuttle traders, and the social impact of women's involvement in this sort of economic activity. By analyzing the social and gendered dimensions of the shuttle trade, the reader can begin to understand more broadly how gender shaped the "transition" period associated with the end of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. Moreover, the difficulties that these women faced highlight the gap between the rhetoric of free market economy and the actual market practices. These women-traders had to create and shape the physical market (an open-air space) for their goods without the basic legislative and other provisions of market economies. The shuttle trade became an avenue of female suffering but also of survival and even empowerment during the time that most Russians now call "the wild 1990s.

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Northern Illinois University Press

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1501758152

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Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism

A History of the Shuttle Trade

By: Irina Mukhina

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A History of the Shuttle Trade

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The Germans of the Soviet Union

By: Irina Mukhina

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Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia

A Comprehensive Bibliography Volume I: Southeastern and East Central Europe (Edited by Irina Livezeanu with June Pachuta Farris) Volume II: Russia, the Non-Russian Peoples of the Russian

By: Mary Zirin,Irina Livezeanu,Christine D. Worobec,June Pachuta Farris

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Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia

A Comprehensive Bibliography Volume I: Southeastern and East Central Europe (Edited by Irina Livezeanu with June Pachuta Farris) Volume II: Russia, the Non-Russian Peoples of the Russian

By: Mary Zirin,Irina Livezeanu,Christine D. Worobec,June Pachuta Farris

This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.

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1317451961

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9781317451969

Saving The Tsar's Palaces

By: Christopher Morgan & Irina Orlova

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Saving The Tsar's Palaces

By: Christopher Morgan & Irina Orlova

The remarkable story of those who battled to save the palaces, not just during and after the war, but during the Revolution and the harsh times that followed.

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Polperro Heritage Press

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0953001296

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9780953001293

People and Time: The Painting Exhibition Catalog

By: Dmitry Kravtsov,Elena Vasiliev,Alexander Butorlin,Valiry Kalmykov,Marina Sinelnikova,Evgeniya Sidorova,Irina Kalmykova,Natalie Ring,Liudmila Voloshina,Anastasia Viazovkina,Anastasia Kravtsova

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People and Time: The Painting Exhibition Catalog

By: Dmitry Kravtsov,Elena Vasiliev,Alexander Butorlin,Valiry Kalmykov,Marina Sinelnikova,Evgeniya Sidorova,Irina Kalmykova,Natalie Ring,Liudmila Voloshina,Anastasia Viazovkina,Anastasia Kravtsova

The exhibition presents the work of Russian artists of different ages and experience, displayed in various painting techniques and genres, united by one idea to capture the spiritual world of a person and its manifestation in life and culture. The idea of such an exhibition was born a long time ago, and now it has formed into a concept to present the work of both already formed artistic personalities with their own unique vision of the world, who have developed their own manner and painting techniques, and novice, young artists with a direct, open look at the world, untrained visual approaches reflecting their idea of people, their deeds, experiences, exploits, an independent vision of the reality being changed by a person and cultural transformation of space. Artists pay close attention to the transience of the flow of human life, the cyclical nature of natural phenomena, the passion of human nature, the strength of spirit, the height of spirituality, the depth of poetry, historical exploits, cultural traditions and embody in the images of their works.

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Anisiia Tomanek OSVČ

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8090835341

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9788090835344

The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, 1890-1934

By: Irina Gutkin

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The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, 1890-1934

By: Irina Gutkin

The past fifteen years have seen an important shift in the way scholars look at socialist realism. Where it was seen as a straitjacket imposed by the Stalinist regime, it is now understood to be an aesthetic movement in its own right, one whose internal logic had to be understood if it was to be criticized. International specialists remain divided, however, over the provenance of Soviet aesthetic ideology, particularly over the role of the avant-garde in its emergence. In The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, Irina Gutkin brings together the best work written on the subject to argue that socialist realism encompassed a philosophical worldview that marked thinking in the USSR on all levels: political, social, and linguistic. Using a wealth of diverse cultural material, Gutkin traces the emergence of the central tenants of socialist realist theory from Symbolism and Futurism through the 1920s and 1930s.

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Northwestern University Press

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081011545X

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9780810115453

The Search for a Socialist El Dorado

Finnish Immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s

By: Alexey Golubev,Irina Takala

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The Search for a Socialist El Dorado

Finnish Immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s

By: Alexey Golubev,Irina Takala

In the 1930s, thousands of Finns emigrated from their communities in the United States and Canada to Soviet Karelia, a region in the Soviet Union where Finnish Communist émigrés were building a society to implement their ideals of socialist Finland. To their new socialist home, these immigrants brought critically needed skills, tools, machines, and money. Educated and skilled, American and Canadian Finns were regarded by Soviet authorities as agents of revolutionary transformations who would not only modernize the economy of Soviet Karelia, but also enlighten its society. North American immigrants, indeed, became active participants of socialist colonization of what Bolshevik leaders perceived as dark, uneducated and backward Soviet ethnic periphery. The Search for a Socialist El Dorado is the first comprehensive account in English of this fascinating story. Using a vast body of documentary sources from archives in Petrozavodsk and Moscow, Russian- and Finnish-language press and literature from the 1930s, oral history interviews and secondary literature, Alexey Golubev and Irina Takala explore in depth the “Karelian fever” among Finnish Americans and Canadians, and the lives of immigrants in the Soviet Union, their contribution to Soviet economy and culture, and their fates in the Great Terror.

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MSU Press

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1628950110

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9781628950113

Oil and Gas in Russian History

By: Liubov Denisova,Irina Mukhina

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Oil and Gas in Russian History

By: Liubov Denisova,Irina Mukhina

The oil and gas sector is currently one of the most important sectors of the Russian economy, and Russian oil and gas is vital for many other economies including in Western Europe. There are many contentious issues surrounding Russian oil and gas, including the degree of state control, the extent of foreign participation allowed, the international strategic significance of oil and gas and its potential use as an international political weapon, and environmental problems. All of these issues are in fact not new. Oil and gas have been significant and highly profitable products in the Russian economy of at least three hundred years, and many of the laws and structures governing the sector were established long ago. This book explores the historical development of oil and gas in Russia showing the importance of the sector to Russia historically and outlining the antecedents of present day issues.

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0415819628

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9780415819626

Book's by Irina Mukhina

The Germans of the Soviet Union

The Germans of the Soviet Union

Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism

Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism

Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism

Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism

The Germans of the Soviet Union

The Germans of the Soviet Union

Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia

Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia

Saving The Tsar's Palaces

Saving The Tsar's Palaces

People and Time: The Painting Exhibition Catalog

People and Time: The Painting Exhibition Catalog

The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, 1890-1934

The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, 1890-1934

The Search for a Socialist El Dorado

The Search for a Socialist El Dorado

Oil and Gas in Russian History

Oil and Gas in Russian History

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