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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"History, Russian and Soviet"”.
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The Songs and Song Cycles of Sergey Prokofiev (1930--1950)
… the occasion of the centennial of the legendary Russian poet, Prokofiev continued the romantic nationalist tradition started by Mikhail Glinka. In the folk-song arrangements Op. 104 and duets Op. 106 the imagery deals with the usual universal themes of unrequited love, girls given out in marriage …
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Retrospective Revolution: A History of Time and Memory in Urban Russia, 1903--1923
This dissertation argues that a large and diverse portion of the urban Russian public---Bolshevik and liberal, wealthy and impoverished---made sense together of such quintessentially modern phenomena as total war, revolution, industrialization, the decline of the aristocracy, consumerism and urban …
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The River Neva and the Imperial Facade: Culture and Environment in Nineteenth Century St. Petersburg Russia
… city, demonstrating the reasons why the river and waterways of the city reveal social, political, and cultural relationships of groups in the capital. Chapter 2, ""The Mountain Came to Us: St. Petersburg and the Flood of 1824"" serves as a case study of the November 7, 1824 flood that became …