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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy /

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy /

by Kefeli, Agnes

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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy /

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy /

by Kefeli, Agnes

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Proletarian Peasants : The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest / by Edelman, Robert, 1945-

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Proletarian Peasants : The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest / by Edelman, Robert, 1945-

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By Honor Bound : State and Society in Early Modern Russia / by Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 1950-

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By Honor Bound : State and Society in Early Modern Russia / by Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 1950-

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Life Is Elsewhere : Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 / by Lounsbery, Anne

Table of Contents: “…: Goncharov, Belinsky, and provincial taste -- Back home : the provincial lives of Turgenev's cosmopolitans -- Transcendence deferred : women writers in the provinces -- Melnikov and Leskov, or, What is regionalism in Russia? -- Centering and decentering in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy -- "Everything here is accidental" : Chekhov's geography of meaninglessness -- In the end : Shchedrin, Sologub, and terminal provinciality -- Conclusion : the provinces in the twentieth century.…”
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Life Is Elsewhere : Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 / by Lounsbery, Anne

Table of Contents: “…: Goncharov, Belinsky, and provincial taste -- Back home : the provincial lives of Turgenev's cosmopolitans -- Transcendence deferred : women writers in the provinces -- Melnikov and Leskov, or, What is regionalism in Russia? -- Centering and decentering in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy -- "Everything here is accidental" : Chekhov's geography of meaninglessness -- In the end : Shchedrin, Sologub, and terminal provinciality -- Conclusion : the provinces in the twentieth century.…”
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La Unión Soviética en América Latina : el caso de la Unidad Popular Chilena, 1970-1973 / by Turrent, Isabel

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La Unión Soviética en América Latina : el caso de la Unidad Popular Chilena, 1970-1973 / by Turrent, Isabel

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The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941 : A Sourcebook /

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The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941 : A Sourcebook /

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De la Unión Soviética a la Comunidad de Estados Independientes : la transición hacia una economía de libre mercado / by García Reyes, Miguel

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De la Unión Soviética a la Comunidad de Estados Independientes : la transición hacia una economía de libre mercado / by García Reyes, Miguel

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Remembrance, History, and Justice : Coming to terms with traumatic pasts in democratic societies /

Table of Contents: “…The difficulty of overcoming the communist legacy in public memory of the past : Poland, Ukraine, and Russia in comparative perspective /…”
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Remembrance, History, and Justice : Coming to terms with traumatic pasts in democratic societies /

Table of Contents: “…The difficulty of overcoming the communist legacy in public memory of the past : Poland, Ukraine, and Russia in comparative perspective /…”
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The Future of Land Warfare / by O'Hanlon, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: historical, strategic, and technological context -- Conflicts real, latent, and imaginable -- Scenarios with Russia or China -- Scenarios in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas -- Toward an army of the future for the United States -- The case for a million-soldier U.S. …”
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The Future of Land Warfare / by O'Hanlon, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: historical, strategic, and technological context -- Conflicts real, latent, and imaginable -- Scenarios with Russia or China -- Scenarios in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas -- Toward an army of the future for the United States -- The case for a million-soldier U.S. …”
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Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 / by Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Steam and Istmus canals -- Planters, traders and labour in the South Pacific -- Fiji: the start of Anglo-German rivalry in the Pacific -- The Somoa conflict -- Germany enters the colonial race -- The New Guinea protectorates -- Great Britain, Russia and the Central Asian question -- Samoa remains a source of international tension -- The emerging economic world powers -- Great Britain, France and Southeast Asia -- The French-expansion westwards into Southeast Asia -- Russia, Japan and the Chinese empire -- Thailand and beyond -- The scramble for China: the Bay of Jiaozhou and Port Arthur -- The British reaction: Wei-Hai-Wei -- The scramble for China continues: Guangzhouwan and Tibet -- The failed annexation of Hawaii -- The United States becomes a colonial empire -- The partition of Samoa -- The Russo-Japanese war -- Great Britain's search for secure colonial frontiers -- The United States, Japan and the Pacific Ocean -- Epilogue.…”
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Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 / by Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Steam and Istmus canals -- Planters, traders and labour in the South Pacific -- Fiji: the start of Anglo-German rivalry in the Pacific -- The Somoa conflict -- Germany enters the colonial race -- The New Guinea protectorates -- Great Britain, Russia and the Central Asian question -- Samoa remains a source of international tension -- The emerging economic world powers -- Great Britain, France and Southeast Asia -- The French-expansion westwards into Southeast Asia -- Russia, Japan and the Chinese empire -- Thailand and beyond -- The scramble for China: the Bay of Jiaozhou and Port Arthur -- The British reaction: Wei-Hai-Wei -- The scramble for China continues: Guangzhouwan and Tibet -- The failed annexation of Hawaii -- The United States becomes a colonial empire -- The partition of Samoa -- The Russo-Japanese war -- Great Britain's search for secure colonial frontiers -- The United States, Japan and the Pacific Ocean -- Epilogue.…”
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