Personality And Place In Russian Culture
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Author |
: Simon Dixon |
Publisher |
: MHRA |
Total Pages |
: 443 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781907322037 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1907322035 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Personality and Place in Russian Culture by : Simon Dixon
Lindsey Hughes (1949-2007) made her reputation as one of the foremost historians of the age of Peter the Great by revealing the more freakish aspects of the tsar's complex mind and reconstructing the various physical environments in which he lived. Contributors to Personality and Place in Russian Culture were encouraged to develop any of the approaches featured in Hughes's work: pointillist and panoramic, playful and morbid, quotidian and bizarre. The result is a rich and original collection, ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, in which a group of leading international scholars explore the role of the individual in Russian culture, the myriad variety of individual lives, and the changing meanings invested in particular places. The editor, Simon Dixon, is Sir Bernard Pares Professor of Russian History at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
Author |
: Simon Dixon |
Publisher |
: Legenda |
Total Pages |
: 435 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1907322027 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781907322020 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Personality and Place in Russian Culture by : Simon Dixon
Author |
: Yale Richmond |
Publisher |
: Nicholas Brealey Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1877864161 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781877864162 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Nyet to Da by : Yale Richmond
From Nyet to Da enlightens readers about virtually every aspect of Russian life. - Increase in contact between Russians and Westerners. As interactions multiply, so does the need to understand what drives Russian behaviour and what skills are needed to communicate effectively. From Nyet to Da covers social and interpersonal skills, as well as the underlying cultural assumptions and values of the Russian people. - Written for anyone engaged in transactions with Russians. s: business executives, educators, students, governmental or non-governmental officials; anyone with an interest in understanding more about Russians will gain new insights from this sympathetic yet even-handed treatment of the Russian people. The text is enlivened with entertaining anecdotes, colourful proverbs and insightful quotes from other scholars. - Five major sections help to define the Russian culture.: Geography and Culture places Russian culture in the framework of the geographic and historical forces that have shaped it; Culture and Character describes the Russian personality: State and Society explains the post-Soviet sociopolitical system; Personal Encounters identifies key behaviour patterns a visitor will encounter; and Negotiating with Russians provides a guide to negotiating a joint venture or a new contract.
Author |
: Konstantin V. Kustanovich |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2018-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498538343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1498538347 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Russian and American Cultures by : Konstantin V. Kustanovich
Russia is a great country—both in terms of size and its achievements. It is the largest country in the world and, perhaps, the richest one as well, if one counts all its natural resources combined. The Russian population is well educated and its sciences and technology are quite advanced. It is also a country with political, legal, and economic systems similar to those in Western Europe and North America. What then prevents it from joining the community of Western democratic societies? What makes it always slide back into the habitual mode of authoritarianism, nationalism, and permeating corruption even when formal democratic institutions and structures are installed? Why does it stubbornly resist any attempts to promote democracy and liberalism? Is it because some curse hangs over the country and it always ends up in the hands of a bad government? The author of this book is convinced that the Russian government is just a derivative of the entire population—the entire culture. The book is thus devoted to Russian culture in comparison with Western cultures and the United States in particular. The author begins this juxtaposition at the dawn of Russian history—the Christianization of Russia in the late tenth century. Religion played a tremendous role in shaping Russian tradition from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries. Choosing Greek Orthodoxy Russia made the first and decisive step away from Western Christianity inheriting the Byzantine kind of authoritarianism and banning not only the religious doctrine but also all knowledge coming from the West including Latin. The author also demonstrates how serfdom and the agricultural commune, which lasted virtually into the twentieth century, fostered the culture of collectivism, nationalism, and legal nihilism. The book’s last part explores the psychology of Russian perceptions of the United States—a crucial factor in the relationships between the two countries. Russian culture, the author contends, persists due to inculcating children during the early childhood socialization, thus passing values and myths from generation to generation. This book represents a truly interdisciplinary project employing ideas and research results from such disciplines as cultural and psychological anthropology, social psychology, psychology of child development, sociology, semiology, law, and history of Russia and Russian religion.
Author |
: Hedrick Smith |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 925 |
Release |
: 2012-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307829382 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307829383 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Russians by : Hedrick Smith
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Russians, a “lively and provocative”* analysis of the Soviet Union in its twilight years. *The New York Times Book Review Even from afar, the transformation in the Soviet Union held a special fascination for all of us, and not only because it affected our destiny, our survival, even the changing nature of our own society. What happened there riveted our interest for a deeper reason: It was a modern enactment of one of the archetypal stories of human existence, that of the struggle from darkness to light, from poverty toward prosperity, from dictatorship toward democracy. It represented an affirmation of the relentless human struggle to break free from the bonds of hierarchy and dogma, to strive for a better life, for stronger, richer values. It was an affirmation of the human capacity for change, growth, renewal. The New Russians is about how that story of change began and what this change meant for the Russian people—and for the rest of the world.
Author |
: Dmitri N Shalin |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2018-02-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429966057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429966059 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Russian Culture At The Crossroads by : Dmitri N Shalin
The reexamination of values that began during the USSRs last years continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving. Multi-textual, polyphonic, and contradictory, the current Russian cultural discourse is richly reflected in these essays by a diverse group of authors from Russian and American academic and cultural circles. The chapters explore specific cultural domains, surveying Russian and Soviet beliefs and behaviors, and highlighting the range of choices that Russians are facing at this critical juncture. }During the waning years of Soviet power, glasnost laid bare the distress of people trapped in a system they despised but felt powerless to change. The reexamination of values that began then continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving, enabling Russians to meet the challenges they face in the contemporary world. Multi-textual, polyphonic, and contradictory, the current Russian cultural discourse is richly reflected in these essays by a diverse group of authors from Russian and American academic and cultural circles. Each chapter focuses on a particular cultural domain, surveying the historical origins of Russian beliefs and behaviors, exploring their Soviet and post-Soviet permutations, and highlighting the range of choices that Russians are facing at this critical juncture. The decisions they make will shape their society and culture for generations to come.Illuminating the universal significance of the Soviet experience, this volume raises provocative questions about the social, political, and economic sources of cultural change.
Author |
: Margaret Mead |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 157181230X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781571812308 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis Russian Culture by : Margaret Mead
This volume brings together two classic works on the culture of the Russian people which have been long out of print. Gorer's Great Russian Culture and Mead's Soviet Attitudes towards Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character were among the first attempts by anthropologists to analyze Russian society. They were influential both for several generations of anthropologists and in shaping American governmental attitudes toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War period. Additionally they offer fascinating insights into the early anthropological use of psychological data to analyze cultural patterns. Read as part of the history of the anthropology of complex contemporary societies, they are as fascinating for their more questionable conclusions as for their accurate characterizations of Russian life.
Author |
: Daniel Rancour-Laferriere |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814774823 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814774822 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Slave Soul of Russia by : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts emphasizing humility as the mother of virtues, the trauma of the Bolshevik revolution, the current economic upheavals wracking the country-- these are only a few of the symptoms of what The Slave Soul of Russia identifies as a veritable cult of suffering that has been centuries in the making. Bringing to light dozens of examples of self-defeating activities and behaviors that have become an integral component of the Russian psyche, Rancour-Laferriere convincingly illustrates how masochism has become a fact of everyday life in Russia. Until now, much attention has been paid to the psychology of Russia's leaders and their impact on the country's condition. Here, for the first time, is a compelling portrait of the Russian people's psychology.
Author |
: Юрий Михайлович Лотман |
Publisher |
: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Michigan |
Total Pages |
: 366 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105001678122 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Semiotics of Russian Culture by : Юрий Михайлович Лотман
Author |
: Jan Plamper |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2012-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300169522 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300169523 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Stalin Cult by : Jan Plamper
Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all times saturated Soviet public space with images of Stalin. A torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs, and poems galvanized the Soviet population and inspired leftist activists around the world. In the first book to examine the cultural products and production methods of the Stalin cult, Jan Plamper reconstructs a hidden history linking artists, party patrons, state functionaries, and ultimately Stalin himself in the alchemical project that transformed a pock-marked Georgian into the embodiment of global communism. Departing from interpretations of the Stalin cult as an outgrowth of Russian mysticism or Stalin's psychopathology, Plamper establishes the cult's context within a broader international history of modern personality cults constructed around Napoleon III, Mussolini, Hitler, and Mao. Drawing upon evidence from previously inaccessible Russian archives, Plamper's lavishly illustrated and accessibly written study will appeal to anyone interested in twentieth-century history, visual studies, the politics of representation, dictator biography, socialist realism, and real socialism.