The Russian Tragedy: The Burden of HistoryM.E. Sharpe, 1996 - 306 páginas Edith Base's letters to her pen pal Phylabe Houston in Greeley, Colorado, are an unwittingly (and perhaps for that reason) fascinating historical document of the day to day life of a Londoner from 1941 to 1947. With great humor and astute observation she explains to her pal how people coped during the war years, describes her patrols as an air raid warden, the darkly humorous social organization of the shelters, and the more mundane life details that simply underscore the eerie "normality" that arises in extraordinary situations. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Página 106
... population growth . The Russian population grew from 36,000,000 in 1796 to perhaps 165,000,000 in 1914 , and no one believed that economic modernization was matching the pace of population growth . At the end of the nineteenth century ...
... population growth . The Russian population grew from 36,000,000 in 1796 to perhaps 165,000,000 in 1914 , and no one believed that economic modernization was matching the pace of population growth . At the end of the nineteenth century ...
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... population of the empire was 72 percent illiterate . Among the elderly , the rural population , and females , illiteracy was higher , though in the cities it was much lower , and in the Baltic provinces it fell to 22 percent.4 The most ...
... population of the empire was 72 percent illiterate . Among the elderly , the rural population , and females , illiteracy was higher , though in the cities it was much lower , and in the Baltic provinces it fell to 22 percent.4 The most ...
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... population transfer , the most immediate consequence was not so obviously to relieve the condition of the oppressed as to concentrate their misery and thereby to magnify the impression of it . Their very numbers depressed the price of ...
... population transfer , the most immediate consequence was not so obviously to relieve the condition of the oppressed as to concentrate their misery and thereby to magnify the impression of it . Their very numbers depressed the price of ...
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Russia and the Russian Political Style | 3 |
The Divorce of State and Society | 29 |
Peter and Catherine | 49 |
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