Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg (1885–1921) was a Baltic German aristocrat and tsarist military officer who fought against the Bolsheviks in Eastern Siberia during the Russian Civil War. From there he established himself as the de facto warlord of Outer Mongolia, the base for a fantastical plan to restore the Russian and Chinese empires, which then ended with his capture and execution by the Red Army as the war drew to a close.
In The Baron’s Cloak, Willard Sunderland tells the epic story of the Russian Empire’s final decades through the arc of the Baron’s life, which spanned the vast reaches of Eurasia. Tracking Ungern’s movements, he transits through the Empire’s multinational borderlands, where the country bumped up against three other doomed empires, the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Qing, and where the violence unleashed by war, revolution, and imperial collapse was particularly vicious. In compulsively readable prose that draws on wide-ranging research in multiple languages, Sunderland re-creates Ungern’s far-flung life and uses it to tell a compelling and original tale of imperial success and failure in a momentous time.
Sunderland visited the many sites that shaped Ungern’s experience, from Austria and Estonia to Mongolia and China, and these travels help give the book its arresting geographical feel. In the early chapters, where direct evidence of Ungern’s activities is sparse, he evokes peoples and places as Ungern would have experienced them, carefully tracing the accumulation of influences that ultimately came together to propel the better documented, more notorious phase of his career.
Recurring throughout Sunderland’s magisterial account is a specific artifact: the Baron’s cloak, an essential part of the cross-cultural uniform Ungern chose for himself by the time of his Mongolian campaign: an orangey-gold Mongolian kaftan embroidered in the Khalkha fashion yet outfitted with tsarist-style epaulettes on the shoulders. Like his cloak, Ungern was an imperial product. He lived across the Russian Empire, combined its contrasting cultures, fought its wars, and was molded by its greatest institutions and most volatile frontiers. By the time of his trial and execution mere months before the decree that created the USSR, he had become a profoundly contradictory figure, reflecting both the empire’s potential as a multinational society and its ultimately irresolvable limitations.
Автор: Burton, Alan Название: Historical dictionary of british spy fiction ISBN: 1442255862 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442255869 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 184450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on individual authors, stories, films, filmmakers, television shows and the various sub-genres of the British spy story.
Название: Soviet and post-soviet russian cinema - ruptures and continuities ISBN: 1138675776 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138675773 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 153120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book examines how far the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a threshold that initiated change and whether there are continuities which gradually reshaped cinema in the new Russia. It considers a range of films and film-makers and explores their attitudes to genre, character and aesthetic style.
Автор: Irina Souch Название: Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film ISBN: 1501329065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501329067 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 126720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book is an exploration of the changes in Russian cultural identity in the twenty years after the fall of the Soviet state. Through close readings of a select number of contemporary Russian films and television series, Irina Souch investigates how a variety of popular cultural tropes ranging from the patriarchal family to the country idyll survived the demise of Communism and maintained their power to inform the Russian people’s self-image. She shows how these tropes continue to define attitudes towards political authority, economic disparity, ethnic and cultural difference, generational relations and gender. The author also introduces theories of identity developed in Russia at the same time, enabling these works to act as sites of productive dialogue with the more familiar discourses of Western scholarship.
Автор: Laurence Senelick Название: Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre ISBN: 1442249269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442249264 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 174240.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian Theater covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography.
Автор: Robert C. Reimer Название: Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema ISBN: 0810867567 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810867567 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 133760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, legions of English citizens headed north. Why and how did Scotland, once avoided by travelers, become a popular site for English tourists? Katherine Haldane Grenier uses published and unpublished travel accounts, guidebooks, and the popular press to examine the evolution of a false view of Scotland as untouched by nineteenth-century transformations.
Автор: Mira, Alberto Название: Historical dictionary of spanish cinema ISBN: 1538122677 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538122679 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 173190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, an appendix and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on titles, movements, filmmakers and performers, and genres (such as homosexuality, nuevo cine espanol or horror).
Автор: Hutchings, Peter Название: Historical dictionary of horror cinema ISBN: 1538102439 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538102435 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 139390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema traces the development of the genre from its beginnings to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries.
Автор: Haltof Marek Название: Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema ISBN: 1442244712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442244719 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 154880.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Through a chronology; an introductory essay; appendixes, a bibliography; and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on films, directors, actors, producers, and film institutions, a balanced picture of the richness of Polish cinema is presented.
Автор: Ginsberg, Terri Lippard, Chris Название: Historical dictionary of middle eastern cinema ISBN: 1538139049 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538139042 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 222470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on individual films, filmmakers, actors, significant historical figures, events, and concepts, and the countries themselves.
Автор: Sergei Zhuk Название: Soviet Americana: The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists ISBN: 1350130125 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350130128 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 35890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US. To shed light onto this important, yet under-studied, academic community, Sergei Zhuk here explores the personal histories of prominent Soviet Americanists, considering the myriad cultural influences - from John Wayne's bravado in the film Stagecoach to Miles Davis - that shaped their identities, careers and academic interests. Zhuk's compelling account draws on a wide range of understudied archival documents, periodicals, letters and diaries as well as more than 100 exclusive interviews with prominent Americanists to take the reader from the post-war origins of American studies, via the extremes of the Cold War, thaw and perestroika, to Putin's Russia. Soviet Americana is a comprehensive insight into shifting attitudes towards the US throughout the twentieth century and an essential resource for all Soviet and Cold War historians.
Russia’s attempt to consolidate its authority in the North Caucasus has exerted a terrible price on both sides since the mid-nineteenth century. Michael Khodarkovsky tells a concise and compelling history of the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas during the centuries of Russia’s long conquest (1500–1850s). The history of the region unfolds against the background of one man’s life story, Sem?n Atarshchikov (1807–1845). Torn between his Chechen identity and his duties as a lieutenant and translator in the Russian army, Atarshchikov defected, not once but twice, to join the mountaineers against the invading Russian troops. His was the experience more typical of Russia’s empire-building in the borderlands than the better known stories of the audacious kidnappers and valiant battles. It is a history of the North Caucasus as seen from both sides of the conflict, which continues to make this region Russia’s most violent and vulnerable frontier.
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