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The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927

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Robert Service
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Book, 4th ed, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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This popular, concise and approachable text discusses the key debates and themes surrounding the Russian Revolution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Russia · History · 1904-1914 · Soviet Union · Revolution, 1917-1921 · Service, Robert, 1947-
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(LOWER LEVEL) DK262 .S455 2009 AVAILABLE

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Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920 : Art, Life & Culture Of The Russian Silver Age

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John E. Bowlt
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Book, Vendome Press, 2008
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Bowlt?s richly textured volume focuses not only on Russia?s best known artists from this period?Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, Igor Stravinsky, Anna Pavlova and poet Anna Akhmatova?but also on lesser known movements of the period?experimental theater, Nikolai Kalmakov?s innovative painting, and the free dance practiced by followers of Duncan and Dalcroze. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Arts, Russian · 20th century · Modernism (Aesthetics) · Russia · History · Civilization · 1801-1917 · Bowlt, John E
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(UPPER LEVEL) NX556.A1 B678 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NX556.A1 B678 2008	NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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The Illustrious Dead

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Stephan Talty
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Book, 1st ed, Crown Publishers, 2009
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?Jack Weatherford,author of the New York Times bestseller Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World In a masterful dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature, New York Times bestselling author Stephan Talty tells the story of a mighty ruler and a tiny microbe, antagonists whose struggle would shape the modern world. A tale of two unstoppable forces meeting on the road to Moscow in an epic clash of killer microbe and peerless army, The Illustrious Dead is a historical whodunit in which a million lives hang in the balance. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Napoleon · I, · Emperor of the French, · 1769-1821 · Military leadership · France. · Armée · History · Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 · Campaigns · Russia · Medical and sanitary affairs · History, Military · 1801-1917 · Talty, Stephan
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Kiviuq : An Inuit Hero And His Siberian Cousins

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Kira Van Deusen
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Book, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009
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After decades exploring Siberian cultures, Kira Van Deusen turned to the Canadian north to ask many such questions, looking at them through the versions of one of their most respected legends - that of hero/shaman Kiviuq, an Inuit counterpart to Homer’s “Odysseus” - told by forty Inuit elders. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Inuit · Nunavut · Folklore · Legends · Russia · Siberia · Shamanism · Storytelling · Kiviuq (Legendary character) · Van Deusen, Kira, 1946-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E99.E7 V36 2009 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E99.E7 V36 2009	AVAILABLE

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The Effects Of Early Social-emotional And Relationship Experience On The Development Of Young Orphanage Children

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The St. Petersburg USA Orphanage Research Team ; with commentary by Susan C. Crockenberg … [et al.]
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Book, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
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Orphans · Russia · Psychology · Child development · Developmental psychology · Orphanages · Crockenberg, Susan C · Collins, W. Andrew, 1944-
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(LOWER LEVEL) HQ767.9 .E34 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HQ767.9 .E34 2008	AVAILABLE

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Russian Legends, Folk Tales And Fairy Tales

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edited by Patty Wageman ; Lidia Iovleva … [et al.]
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Book, Groninger Museum, 2007
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Painted in 1880, it evidences the influence that Russian fairytales (in which magic carpets figure heavily) had on Russian painters and illustrators of the time. An engaging survey of an under-explored phenomenon, Russian Legends, Folktales and Fairytales includes more than 80 works by Vasnetsov, Nicholas Roerich, Ivan Bilibin, Vasili Kandinsky, Elena Polenova and Michail Vroebel alongside summaries of the depicted fairytales. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Art, Russian · Exhibitions · Tales · Russia · Folklore in art · Byliny · History and criticism · Illustrated children’s books · Wageman, Patty · Vasnetsov, Viktor Mikhailovich, 1848-1926 · Bilibin, Ivan IAkovlevich, 1876-1942 · Polenova, Elena Dmitrievna, 1850-1898 · Vrubel, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1856-1910 · Rerikh, Nikolai Konstantinovich, 1874-1947 · Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944 · Groninger Museum
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(UPPER LEVEL) N6987 .R988 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	N6987 .R988 2007	AVAILABLE

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The Pearl : A True Tale Of Forbidden Love In Catherine The Great’s Russia

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Douglas Smith
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Book, Yale University Press, 2008
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The book reconstructs Praskovia’s stage career as “The Pearl” and the heartbreaking details of her romance with Nicholas—years of torment before their secret marriage, the outrage of the aristocracy when news of the marriage emerged, Praskovia’s death only days after delivering a son, and the unyielding despair that followed Nicholas to the end of his life. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kovaleva-Zhemchugova, P. I. · (Praskovia Ivanovna) · Sheremetev family · Singers · Russia · Biography · Opera · 18th century · Smith, Douglas, 1962-
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(UPPER LEVEL) ML420.K875 S65 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	ML420.K875 S65 2008	AVAILABLE

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Russian Architecture And The West

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Dmitry Shvidkovsky ; photographs by Yekaterina Shorban ; translated from the Russian by Antony Wood
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Book, Yale University Press, 2007
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This is the first book to show the development of Russian architecture over the past thousand years as a part of the history of Western architecture. The book systematically analyzes Russian buildings in relation to developments in European art, pointing out where familiar European features are expressed in Russian projects. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Architecture · Russia · European influences · Shvidkovskii, D. O
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OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA1181 .S53 2007 AVAILABLE

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OVERSIZE (UPPER)	NA1181 .S53 2007	AVAILABLE

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Forge Of Empires, 1861-1871 : Three Revolutionary Statesmen And The World They Made

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Michael Knox Beran
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Book, 1st Free Press hardcover ed, Free Press, 2007
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In the space of a single decade, three leaders liberated tens of millions of souls, remade their own vast countries, and altered forever the forms of national power: Abraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race and transformed the American Republic. The three statesmen forged the empires that would dominate the twentieth century through two world wars, the Cold War, and beyond. Michael Knox Beran’s Forge of Empires brilliantly entwines the stories of the three epochal transformations and their fateful legacies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Alexander · II, · Emperor of Russia, · 1818-1881 · Influence · Lincoln, Abraham, · 1809-1865 · Bismarck, Otto, · Fürst von, · 1815-1898 · Statesmen · History · 19th century · United States · 1849-1877 · Germany · 1848-1870 · Russia · Alexander II, 1855-1881 · Beran, Michael Knox
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(LOWER LEVEL) E457 .B44 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E457 .B44 2007	AVAILABLE

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War And Peace

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Leo Tolstoy ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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Book, 1st ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007
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- Table of contents only
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From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy?s master epic. War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon?s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 · Campaigns · Russia · Fiction · History · Alexander I, 1801-1825 · Tolstoy, Leo, 1828-1910 · Pevear, Richard, 1943- · Volokhonsky, Larissa
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(UPPER LEVEL) PG3366 .V6 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PG3366 .V6 2007	AVAILABLE

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The Great Upheaval : America And The Birth Of The Modern World, 1788-1800

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Jay Winik
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Book, 1st ed, HarperCollins, 2007
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Here is a savage world war, the top-pling of a great dynasty, and an America struggling to survive at home and abroad. And here is the richest cast of characters to walk upon the world stage: Washington and Jefferson, Louis XVI and Robespierre, Catherine the Great, Adams, Napoleon, and Selim III. Exquisitely written and utterly compelling, The Great Upheaval vividly depicts an arc of revolutionary fervor stretching from Philadelphia and Paris to St. Petersburg and Cairo?with fateful results. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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History, Modern · 18th century · Civilization, Modern · World history · 18th century. · sears · United States · History · Constitutional period, 1789-1809 · France · Revolution, 1789-1799 · Russia · Catherine II, 1762-1796 · Paul I, 1796-1801 · 1783-1809. · 1789-1799, Revolution. · History. · Winik, Jay, 1957-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E310 .W56 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E310 .W56 2007	AVAILABLE

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Saints Of Russia

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Constantin de Grunwald ; translated by Roger Capel
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Book, Macmillan, 1960
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Christian saints · Russia · Grunwald, Constantin de
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(LOWER LEVEL) BX596 .G713 1960 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	BX596 .G713 1960	AVAILABLE

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The Cambridge History Of Russia

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edited by Maureen Perrie
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 2006
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At the core of all three volumes are the Russians, the lands which they have inhabited and the polities that ruled them while other peoples and territories have also been given generous coverage for the periods when they came under Riurikid, Romanov and Soviet rule. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Russia · History · Kievan Rus · Perrie, Maureen, 1946-
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REFERENCE (MAIN) DK43 .C35 2006 v.1 AVAILABLE
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Turizm : The Russian And East European Tourist Under Capitalism And Socialism

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edited by Anne E. Gorsuch, Diane P. Koenker
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Book, Cornell University Press, 2006
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- Table of contents only
Description
Turizm is the first book to examine the history of tourism in Russia and eastern Europe from the tsarist period to the age of Soviet and east European mass tourism in the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors to this volume address topics including the roots of socialist tourism, the role of tourism in the making of nations and maintenance of empire, and ways in which the men and women of the “margins of Europe” understood themselves in relation to “Europe.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Tourists · Russia · History · 19th century · Soviet Union · Europe, Eastern · 20th century · Tourism · Gorsuch, Anne E · Koenker, Diane, 1947-
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(LOWER LEVEL) G155.R8 T875 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	G155.R8 T875 2006	AVAILABLE

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Born To Rule : Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters Of Queen Victoria

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Julia P. Gelardi
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Book, 1st ed, St. Martin’s Press, 2005
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- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
Description
Julia Gelardi’s Born to Rule is an historical tour de force that weaves together the powerful and moving stories of the five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria. Victoria Eugenie, Spain’s very English queen who, like Alexandra, introduced hemophilia into her husband’s family-with devastating consequences for her marriage; and Sophie, Kaiser Wilhelm II’s much maligned sister, daughter of an Emperor and herself the mother of no less than three kings and a queen, who ended her days in bitter exile. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Victoria, · Queen of Great Britain, · 1819-1901 · Family · Queens · Europe · Biography · Russia · Gelardi, Julia P
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(LOWER LEVEL) D352.3 .G46 2005 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	D352.3 .G46 2005	AVAILABLE

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