Reginald in Russia

Reginald in Russia
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Publisher : The Floating Press
Total Pages : 115
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ISBN-10 : 9781775450689
ISBN-13 : 1775450686
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Reginald in Russia by : Saki

Edwardian author Hector Hugh Munro wrote under the cryptic pseudonym Saki, producing a diverse and robust body of work. This collection includes a story that follows Reginald, a recurring character in Saki's writing, to the frosty burgs of early twentieth-century Russia.

A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia

A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 518
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ISBN-10 : 0804713316
ISBN-13 : 9780804713313
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia by : Semen Kanatchikov

Semën Kanatchikov, born in a central Russian village in 1879, was one of the thousands of peasants who made the transition from traditional village life to the life of an urban factory worker in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the last years of the nineteenth century. Unlike the others, however, he recorded his personal and political experiences (up to the even of the 1905 Revolution) in an autobiography. First published in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, this memoir gives us the richest and most thoughtful firsthand account we have of life among the urban lower classes in Imperial Russia. We follow this shy but determined peasant youth's painful metamorphosis into a self-educated, skilled patternmaker, his politicization in the factories and workers' circles of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and his close but troubled relations with members of the liberal and radical intelligentsia. Kanatchikov was an exceptionally sensitive and honest observer, and we learn much from his memoirs about the day-to-day life of villagers and urban workers, including such personal matters as religious beliefs, family tensions, and male-female relationships. We also learn about conditions in the Russian prisons, exile life in the Russian Far North, and the Bolshevik-Menshevik split as seen from the workers' point of view.

Reginald in Russia, and Other Sketches

Reginald in Russia, and Other Sketches
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 102
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ISBN-10 : 9783387014228
ISBN-13 : 3387014228
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Reginald in Russia, and Other Sketches by : Saki (H. H. Munro)

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 496
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ISBN-10 : 9780801454769
ISBN-13 : 080145476X
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia by : Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli

In the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire's Middle Volga region (today's Tatarstan) was the site of a prolonged struggle between Russian Orthodoxy and Islam, each of which sought to solidify its influence among the frontier's mix of Turkic, Finno-Ugric, and Slavic peoples. The immediate catalyst of the events that Agnes Nilufer Kefeli chronicles in Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia was the collective turn to Islam by many of the region's Krashens, the Muslim and animist Tatars who converted to Russian Orthodoxy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.The traditional view holds that the apostates had really been Muslim all along or that their conversions had been forced by the state or undertaken voluntarily as a matter of convenience. In Kefeli’s view, this argument vastly oversimplifies the complexity of a region where many participated in the religious cultures of both Islam and Orthodox Christianity and where a vibrant Krashen community has survived to the present. By analyzing Russian, Eurasian, and Central Asian ethnographic, administrative, literary, and missionary sources, Kefeli shows how traditional education, with Sufi mystical components, helped to Islamize Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples in the Kama-Volga countryside and set the stage for the development of modernist Islam in Russia.Of particular interest is Kefeli’s emphasis on the role that Tatar women (both Krashen and Muslim) played as holders and transmitters of Sufi knowledge. Today, she notes, intellectuals and mullahs in Tatarstan seek to revive both Sufi and modernist traditions to counteract new expressions of Islam and promote a purely Tatar Islam aware of its specificity in a post-Christian and secular environment.

Reginald and Reginald in Russia

Reginald and Reginald in Russia
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:67438182
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Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Reginald and Reginald in Russia by : Saki (pseud. van H. H. Munro.)

Reginald in Russia, and Other Sketches

Reginald in Russia, and Other Sketches
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Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages : 94
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ISBN-10 : 1318740061
ISBN-13 : 9781318740062
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Reginald in Russia, and Other Sketches by : Saki

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.