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Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North
This book draws on a wide range of theoretical perspectives – from Chaney and Bourdieu to Berger, Sontag and Bakhtin – and from ideas about nostalgia to theories of consumption, nation, and ethnicity. The ethnographic detail in each chapter is impressive, and in my view is the real core of the book. It is a resource which will be widely used by Russian, Soviet and postsocialist specialists,…
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- 9781783747191
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- xv, 465 p. : ill
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- 306.0957 HAB l
Proceedings of the scientific-practical conference "Research and Development …
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. It relates to the III Annual Conference hosted by the Russian Federal Ministry of Education and Science in December 2016. This event has summarized, analyzed and discussed the interim results, academic outputs and scientific achievements of the Russian Federal Targeted Programme for Research and Development in priority areas of development of …
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- 9783319628707
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- xvii, 730p. : ill.
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- 004 PRO p
The Palgrave handbook of digital Russia studies
This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the ‘digital’ is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in the context of ubiquitous connectivity and accounts for the political and societal responses t…
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- 9783030428556
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- xxii, 612p. : ill.
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- 947.0071 PAL p
Visual texts, ceremonial texts, texts of exploration : collected articles on …
Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration continues the work begun in Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule, which analyzed the interplay between the symbolic representations of Russian monarchs and the legal and institutional instruments of their rule. The articles in this volume examine the texts that, through various media, revealed the myths and scenarios conveying the goals …
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- 9781618113474
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- XV, 442 p,
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- Imperial Encounters in Russian History
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- 947.05 WOR v
Understanding contemporary Islamic crises in the Middle East : the issues ben…
Over the past decade the Middle East has undergone huge geopolitical shifts, including widespread war and violence, the collapse of numerous regimes, a changing American role, a restored Russian presence, and the emergence of ISIS. In this book Graham Fuller addresses the character of these shifts and how they will shape the future of this tumultuous region as well as the role of major outside …
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- 9789087282677
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- 65p. : ill.
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- 340.09 FUL u
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