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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Bolshevik Revolution"”.
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Between two worlds: Americans and Soviets after the Bolshevik Revolution
… American power abroad. In the decade after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Americans attempted to transform Russia through military occupation, humanitarian work, and the spread of cultural and industrial products. Between Two Worlds shows that such ventures were not unilateral extensions of …
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The Soviet System and the Historian: E.V. Tarle (1875-1955) as a Case Study
<p>Ever since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Soviet leaders have viewed the field of history as the most political of the social sciences. Soviet historiography, as a result, has been conditioned by political events; and Marxist-Leninist ideology, also affected by politics, has been used as its …
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Masculinities in the Motherland: Gender and Authority in the Soviet Union During the Cold War, 1945--1968
… iconography and the specific era of the Bolshevik revolution. The particular conditions of the postwar era -- beginning with the international rivalries of the Cold War -- led to the unofficial recognition of multiple masculinities and, by extension, a plurality of subjectivities within …
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"Karol Szymanowski's ""Stabat Mater"""
… something he had never experienced until the Bolshevik revolution. Szymanowski wove all of these strands into the fabric of his musical thinking, animating the whole with his desire that Poland develop a national tradition in music. This desire was manifested above all in the Stabat Mater …
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Murmurs of Revolution: Mythical Subversion in Dostoevsky
<p>Throughout history, revolutions have been plagued by unpredictability; it is all but impossible to know when cultural systems will be turned on their heads. Is there a common motivator, to predict social unrest bubbling beneath the surface of society? I suggest the development of this motivator …
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Bolshevizing Britain in the Interwar Imagination
… Imagination interprets the emergence of anti-Bolshevik popular fiction (also known as Red fiction) in Britain as manifesting a range of responses to the perceived "lessons" of the Great War. It argues that these responses foreground two opposing interpretations of the Great War in Britain: on …
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How Soviet Russia Liberated Women: The Soviet Model in Clara Zetkin's Periodical 'Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale'
… writings centered on these principles. The Bolshevik Revolution proved to Zetkin that communism rescued women from the oppression of capitalism. The Soviet model showed that women could find protection for themselves and their children through state intervention. In addition, communism …
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The Reaction of the the Russion Orthodox Church During the First Year of Communist Persecution
… 25, 1917, according to the Russian calendar, the Bolshevik Revolution, which ushered on to the world scene the dictatorship of Communism, began in Petrograd and spread rapidly to other Russian cities and towns and ultimately engulfed the whole country. Its effect upon all classes of society was …
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British and American relations with independent Ukraine, 1917-1921 and 1991-1994
… struggle for independence from Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the thesis aims to provide a comparative analysis of the two periods in which Ukraine pursued its goal of national statehood. It focuses on how and to what extent the latter was affected by external factors, above all …
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British foreign policy in Azerbaijan, 1918-1920
… altogether, which lasted until the February Revolution of 1917, despite the wartime alliance between Britain and Russia. The thesis then goes on to examine British policy towards Transcaucasia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The thesis argues that the political turmoil in Russia …
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Most uncommon common men: craft, culture, and conflict in a Canadian community, 1860-1914
… The war years, with their more consciously revolutionary activity, and the example of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, would cultivate new perceptions, forms of struggle, and political answers. But in the years 1860-1914, the craft response remained something of a unity.</p> <p>Finally, my …