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Morozov provides behind-the-scenes insights on Yeltsin, Kuchma, Dudaev, and other important players still active today. His book will firmly alter our perception of the USSR and its demise, the Soviet military machine, and the rise of a modern, independent Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University has established the Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies as a medium for occasional papers, lectures, reports, reprints, long articles, and recent theses of particular merit. It also is a venue for monograph-length works that utilize new analyses and methodologies that broaden the field of Ukrainian studies. The series is not geographically limited to Ukraine proper--it also will examine questions of importance to surrounding countries, inasmuch as these questions are significant to the history and current development of Ukraine. This booklet contains the proceedings of the first Annual Conference sponsored by the Ukrainian Research Insti...
This book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important questions about the origins of the East Slavic nations and the essential similarities or differences between their cultures. It traces the origins of the modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nations by focusing on pre-modern forms of group identity among the Eastern Slavs. It also challenges attempts to 'nationalize' the Rus' past on behalf of existing national projects, laying the groundwork for understanding of the pre-modern history of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The book covers the period from the Christianization of Kyivan Rus' in the tenth century to the reign of Peter I and his eighteenth-century successors, by which time the idea of nationalism had begun to influence the thinking of East Slavic elites.
In 1884, the first of 68 prisoners convicted of terrorism and revolutionary activity were transferred to a new maximum security prison at Shlissel´burg Fortress near St Petersburg. The regime of indeterminate sentences in isolation caused severe mental and physical deterioration among the prisoners, over half of whom died. But the survivors fought back to reform the prison and improve the inmates’ living conditions. The memoirs many survivors wrote enshrined their story in revolutionary mythology, and acted as an indictment of the Tsarist autocracy’s loss of moral authority. Writing Resistance features three of these memoirs, all translated into English for the first time. They show the...
Since becoming independent in 1991, the Ukraine has emerged as a major player in world politics, with a population and territory among the largest in Europe. It is also the world's third largest nuclear power. This is a study of the security structure of the new state.
Encounters with mathematicians by A. P. Yushkevich The Moscow school of the theory of functions in the 1930s by S. S. Demidov About mathematics at Moscow State University in the late 1940s and early 1950s by E. M. Landis Reminiscences of Soviet mathematicians by B. A. Rosenfeld A. N. Kolmogorov by V. M. Tikhomirov On A. N. Kolmogorov by V. I. Arnold Pages of a mathematical autobiography (1942-1953) by M. M. Postnikov Markov and Bishop: An essay in memory of A. A. Markov (1903-1979) and E. Bishop (1928-1983) by B. A. Kushner Etude on life and automorphic forms in the Soviet Union by I. Piatetski-Shapiro On Soviet mathematics of the 1950s and 1960s by D. B. Fuchs In the other direction by A. B. Sossinsky A brief survey of the literature on the development of mathematics in the USSR by S. S. Demidov Russian bibliography by S. S. Demidov Moscow mathematics--Then and now by V. M. Tikhomirov Errata Index of names
How science fiction forged a unique Russian vision of modernity distinct from Western models