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Free Download Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History by Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova, Margaret Litvin
English | June 28, 2023 | ISBN: 0197605761 | 408 pages | PDF | 16 Mb
The roots of the Arab world’s current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, this book presents and contextualizes a set of primary sources translated from Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Persian, French, and Tatar: a 1772 Russian naval officer’s diary, an Arabic slave sale deed from the Caucasus, an interview with a Russian-educated contemporary Syrian novelist, and many more. These archival, autobiographical, and literary sources, all appearing in English for the first time, are introduced by specialists and in some cases by pairs of scholars with complementary language expertise. They highlight connections long obscured by disciplinary cleavages between Slavic and Middle East studies.

Free Download S. A. An-sky, Michael R. Katz, "Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s (Jewish Literature and Culture)"
English | 2014 | pages: 164 | ISBN: 0253012120, 0253012090 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
S. A. An-sky’s novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious upbringing to adopt a secular and modern identity. The action unfolds in the town of M. in the Pale of Settlement, where an engaging cast of characters wrestles with cultural and social issues. Their exploits culminate in helping a young Jewish woman evade an arranged marriage and a young Russian woman leave home so she can pursue her studies at a European university. This startling novel reveals the tensions and triumphs of coming of age in a revolutionary time.

Free Download Vladimir Feshchenko, "Russian and American Poetry of Experiment: The Linguistic Avant-Garde "
English | ISBN: 9004526250 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 30 MB

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Free Download Russian Intelligentsia in Search of an Identity: Between Dostoevsky’s Oppositions and Tolstoy’s Holism
by Svetlana Klimova
English | 2020 | ISBN: 9004440607 | 240 Pages | True PDF | 3.13 MB

Free Download Avrahm Yarmolinsky, "Road to Revolution: a century of Russian radicalism"
English | 2014 | pages: 396 | ISBN: 069161041X, 0691638543 | PDF | 22,3 mb
This book traces the history of revolutionary movements in nineteenth- century Russia, ending with the great famine of 1891-92, by which time Marxism was already in the ascendant.

Free Download The Military History of the Russian Empire from Peter the Great until Nicholas II
by Steinberg, John W.;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1350037184 | 341 pages | True PDF EPUB | 38.44 MB

Free Download RUSSIAN IMPRESSIONISTS and POST-IMPRESSIONISTS by Mikhail Guerman
English | July 31, 2022 | ISBN: 1639193030 | 200 pages | PDF | 34 Mb
The 1860s were marked by a strong realistic movement in Russian painting. Artists became interested in depicting the lives and customs of their fellow countrymen. This new art form was mostly the work of the Itinerants group, who wanted to take art to the people and paint the outdoors. Mikhail Guerman traces the converging lines of Russian and French art in the immensely fertile period of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Free Download The Russian Idea (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9789520458041 | 2023 | 8 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: Mauno Koivisto
Narrator: Andrew Smith
This book examines Russia from a geographical neighbour’s perspective. In The Russian Idea, Finland’s ex-President sets out to understand Russian thinking through the lens of historical events and to anticipate its influence on Russia’s future choices. Following Russia’s attack on Ukraine in February 2022, the book is today more topical than ever. While outlining the key episodes in Russian history, Koivisto explores the essence of what Russia and Russianness stand for. What was the significance of Moscow’s self-proclamation as the Third Rome, and how did Russia become an empire? What impact did the existence of that empire have on Finland’s independence? In The Russian Idea, Koivisto combines a review of Russian political history with an introduction to the Russian history of ideas. He describes the Russian intellectual heritage as a combination of Orthodox religion, Pan-Slavism and Socialism.

Free Download Aaron Weinacht professor of history, "Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America "
English | ISBN: 1793634777 | 2021 | 182 pages | EPUB | 675 KB
Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America argues that the core commitments of the nihilist movement of the 1860’s made their way to 20th century America via the thought of Ayn Rand. While mid-nineteenth-century Russian nihilism has generally been seen as part of a radical tradition that culminated in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the author argues that nihilism’s intellectual trajectory was in fact quite different. Analysis of such sources as Nikolai Chernyshevskii’s What is to Be Done? (1863) and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (1957), archival research in Rand’s papers, and broad attention to late-nineteenth century Russian intellectual history all lead the author to conclude that nihilism’s legacy is deeply implicated in one of America’s most widely-read philosophers of capitalism and libertarian freedom.

Free Download Russian through Film: For Intermediate to Advanced Students by Anna Kudyma, Irina Six, Irina Walsh
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367896125 | 212 Pages | PDF | 6.5 MB
Russian through Film: For Intermediate to Advanced Students is a multi-level textbook for learners of Russian that targets contemporary films in Russian.