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Sobreviviendo un yugo desigual en el matrimonio

Autor: Lee Strobel , Leslie Strobel

Número de Páginas: 312

Alguien se interpusoentre Lee y LeslieStrobel, amenazandoCon hacer naufragarSu matrimonio.Pero no fue un viejoAmor, fue Jesucristo.La decisión de Leslie de convertirse en una seguidora de Jesús trajo una oposición candente de su escéptico esposo. Comenzaron a experimentar conflictos sobre diferentes asuntos, desde las finanzas hasta la crianza de los hijos. Pero con el tiempo, Leslie aprendió cómo sobrevivir a un matrimonio desigual. Hoy ambos son cristianos, y ellos desean que tú sepas que hay esperanza si tú eres cristiano y estás casado con un incrédulo. En su libro intensamente personal y práctico, ellos revelan:• Ideas sorprendentes dentro del pensamiento de los cónyuges no cristianos• Una docena de pasos para sacar el mejor partido de tu matrimonio desigual• Nueve principios para alcanzar a tu cónyuge con el evangelio• Consejos para criar a los hijos en un hogar espiritualmente desigual• Cómo orar por tu cónyuge – más una guia de 30 días para comenzar• ¿Qué hacer si ambos son cristianos pero uno se queda rezagado espiritualmente?• Consejos a los cristianos solteros para evitar el dolor de una desigualdad

Desafío a servir

Autor: Charles R. Swindoll

Número de Páginas: 209

Instrucciones en cuanto a lo que significa seguir a Cristo. ¿Podemos vivir como siervos de Dios en la sociedad de "primero yo"? En este libro clásico, Charles Swindoll nos muestra los aspectos importantes de un servicio con autenticidad. Tales son: como llegar a servir desinteresadamente, como alcanzar la influencia poderosa del siervo; y cuales retos y recompensas podemos esperar del servicio. Swindoll ofrece una guía clara para desarrollar el corazón de siervo y nos reta recibir las ricas recompensas prometidas a los que viven una vida de verdadero servicio cristiano.

Jewish Responses to Persecution

Autor: Emil Kerenji

Número de Páginas: 599

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum With its unique combination of primary sources and historical narrative, this volume provides an important new perspective on Holocaust history. Covering the peak years of the Nazi “Final Solution,” it traces the Jewish struggle for survival, which became increasingly urgent in this period, including armed resistance and organized escape attempts. Shedding light on personal and public lives of Jews, the book provides compelling insights into a wide range of Jewish experiences during the Holocaust. Jewish individuals and communities suffered through this devastating period and reflected on the Holocaust differently, depending on their nationality, personal and communal histories and traditions, political beliefs, economic situation, and other circumstances. The rich spectrum of primary source material collected, including letters, diary entries, photographs, transcripts of speeches and radio addresses, newspaper articles, drawings, and institutional memos and reports, makes this volume an essential research tool and curriculum companion.

Discipleship Essentials (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Número de Páginas: 318

This Morning with God

Autor: Carol Adeney , Bill Weimer

Número de Páginas: 156

What is God saying to you today? This guide will help you dive deep into the text of Scripture and reflect on its implications for your life. With fifty-two weeks of six daily readings, you can start at the beginning of any week and read through all four Gospels and the Psalms in one year. Inductive study questions help you observe, interpret, and apply the text and let the Bible speak for itself.

The God Who Is There

Autor: Francis A. Schaeffer

Número de Páginas: 244

For over fifty years The God Who Is There has been a landmark work that has changed the way the church sees the world. Arguing that Christians must constantly engage the questions being asked by their own—and the next—generation, Francis Schaeffer envisions an apologetics and spirituality both grounded in absolute truth and engaging the whole of reality.

Evacuee Encounters on the Soviet Home Front During the Second World War

Autor: Natalie Belsky

Número de Páginas: 227

This study is the first to examine the experiences of the millions of Soviet civilians evacuated to the interior of the country during the Second World War in the context of their encounters and relations with local communities and populations across Soviet Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, and the Urals. The book considers the impact of this episode of massive population displacement across Eurasia on individuals, communities, and society more broadly. It explores how the challenges associated with wartime displacement gave rise to tensions between evacuees and local residents. These frictions, in turn, forced individuals to interrogate the meaning, terms, and limitations of citizenship and belonging in the Soviet Union. Evacuation thus played a critical role in the changing relationship between citizens and the Soviet state in the war and postwar periods. Furthermore, this study pays particular attention to the plight of Soviet Jewish evacuees, who constitute the largest contingent of Holocaust survivors in Europe, and the rise of anti-Semitism on the Soviet home front during the war. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of the Second World War, migration...

The New Life

Autor: Jeremy Varon

Número de Páginas: 378

Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) survived in concentration and death camps, in hiding, and as exiles in the Soviet interior. After liberation in the land of their persecutors, some also attended university to fulfill dreams of becoming doctors, engineers, and professionals. In The New Life: Jewish Students of Postwar Germany, Jeremy Varon tells the improbable story of the nearly eight hundred young Jews, mostly from Poland and orphaned by the Holocaust, who studied in universities in the American Zone of Occupied Germany. Drawing on interviews he conducted with the Jewish alumni in the United States and Israel and the records of their Student Union, Varon reconstructs how the students built a sense of purpose and a positive vision of the future even as the wounds of the past persisted. Varon explores the keys to students’ renewal, including education itself, the bond they enjoyed with one another as a substitute family, and their efforts both to reconnect with old passions and to revive a near-vanquished European Jewish intelligentsia. The New Life also explores the relationship between Jews and Germans in occupied Germany. Varon shows how mutual suspicion and resentment dominated ...

¿Es razonable creer en Dios?

Autor: Timothy Keller

Número de Páginas: 324

Timothy Keller, pastor fundador de la Iglesia Presbiteriana Redeemer en la Ciudad de Nueva York, aborda las frecuentes dudas que escépticos e incrédulos plantean al mundo de la fe. Mediante literatura, filosofía, antropología, cultura popular y razonamiento intelectual, Keller explica cómo la creencia en un Dios cristiano es, de hecho, una creencia racional y sana. A los creyentes auténticos el autor les ofrece una sólida plataforma sobre la cual resistir el contragolpe que la era del escepticismo ha engendrado contra la fe. Y a los escépticos, ateos y agnósticos les presenta un desafiante argumento para determinar si es razonable creer en Dios. La revista Newsweek ha dicho "es un asombroso best seller en la lista del New York Times, escrito por 'el C.S. Lewis del siglo XXI'". La revista Christian Today lo describe como “un best seller en la lista del New York Times, que es creíble y cuyo autor es un pionero de la nueva iglesia cristiana urbana”. Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics and non-believers bring to religion. Using literature, philosophy, anthropology, pop culture,...

In the Shadow of the Shtetl

Autor: Jeffrey Veidlinger

Número de Páginas: 441

A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary. The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some four hundred returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey Veidlinger’s reappraisal of the traditional narrative of twentieth-century Jewish history. These elderly Yiddish speakers relate their memories of Jewish life in the prewar shtetl, their stories of survival during the Holocaust, and their experiences living as Jews under Communism. Despite Stalinist repressions, the Holocaust, and official antisemitism, their individual remembrances of family life, religious observance, education, and work testify to the survival of Jewish life in the shadow of the shtetl to this day.

Christ Our Reconciler

Autor: Julia Cameron

Número de Páginas: 233

Key Christian leaders from a variety of countries and cultures share Bible teaching and personal testimonies in the context of: 'God in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself'. An excellent contribution to the church worldwide which deserves to be read and referred to again and again. Guaranteed to enlarge your vision of what God can do and what you should be doing.

Nouvelles archives soviétiques et renouveau historiographique

Número de Páginas: 340

The Manley Family of Easton, Mass

Autor: Fannie Smith Spurling

Número de Páginas: 130

New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial

Autor: William Richard Cutter

Número de Páginas: 2196

Brillando Como Estrellas

Autor: Brown, Lindsay

Número de Páginas: 264

Jewish Communities in Modern Asia

Autor: Rotem Kowner

Número de Páginas: 447

Jewish settlement in Asia, beyond the Middle East, is largely a modern phenomenon. Imperial expansion and adventurism by Great Britain and Russia were the chief motors that initially drove Jewish settlers to move eastwards, in the nineteenth century, combined as this was with the rise of port cities and general development of the global economy. The new immigrants soon become centrally involved, in ways quite disproportionate to their numbers, in Asian commerce. Their role and centrality finished with the outbreak of World War II, the chaos that resulted from the fighting, and the consequent collapse of Western imperialism. This unique, ground-breaking book charts their rise and fall while pointing to signs of these communities' post-war resurgence and revival. Fourteen chapters by many of the most prominent authorities in the field, from a range of perspectives, explore questions of identity, society, and culture across several Asian locales. It is essential reading for scholars of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies.

Reflections on Stalinism

Autor: J. Arch Getty , Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Número de Páginas: 245

Reflections on Stalinism distills decades of historical thought and research, bringing together twelve senior scholars of Soviet history who began their careers during the Cold War to examine their views of Stalinism. They present insights into the role of personality in statecraft, the social underpinnings of dictatorship and state terrorism, historians' attachments to their subjects, historical causality, the applicability of Marxist categories to Soviet history, the relationship of Soviet history to post-Soviet Russia, and more. Essays address the transformation of a peasant country into a superpower and the causes and scale of domestic bloodshed. Reflections on Stalinism ultimately tackles an age-old question: Do powerful people make history or are they the product of it?

Motherland in Danger

Autor: Karel C. Berkhoff

Número de Páginas: 383

Much of the story about the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany has yet to be told. In Motherland in Danger, Karel Berkhoff addresses one of the most neglected questions facing historians of the Second World War: how did the Soviet leadership sell the campaign against the Germans to the people on the home front? For Stalin, the obstacles were manifold. Repelling the German invasion would require a mobilization so large that it would test the limits of the Soviet state. Could the USSR marshal the manpower necessary to face the threat? How could the authorities overcome inadequate infrastructure and supplies? Might Stalin’s regime fail to survive a sustained conflict with the Germans? Motherland in Danger takes us inside the Stalinist state to witness, from up close, its propaganda machine. Using sources in many languages, including memoirs and documents of the Soviet censor, Berkhoff explores how the Soviet media reflected—and distorted—every aspect of the war, from the successes and blunders on the front lines to the institution of forced labor on farm fields and factory floors. He also details the media’s handling of Nazi atrocities and the Holocaust, as well as...

Stalin's World War II Evacuations

Autor: Larry E. Holmes

Número de Páginas: 246

In the face of the German onslaught in World War II, the Soviets succeeded, as Molotov later recalled, "in relocating to the rear virtually an entire industrial country." It was an official declared "one of the greatest feats of the war." Focusing on the Kirov region, this book offers a different and considerably more nuanced picture of the evacuations than the typical triumphal narrative found in Soviet history. In its depiction of the complexities of the displacement and relocation of populations, Stalin's World War II Evacuations also has remarkable relevance in our time of mass migrations of refugees from war-torn nations. The citizens and government of Kirov, some 500 miles northeast of Moscow, provided food, clothing, and shelter to the people and institutions that descended on the region in numbers far exceeding prewar plans or anyone's imagination. But as they continued to share their already strained resources—with adult evacuees, Leningrad's children, wounded and ill soldiers, factories, and commissariats—the people of Kirov became increasingly resentful, especially as it grew clear that the war would be prolonged, and that their guests demanded privileged treatment. ...

We Have Roots Too

Autor: Mary Frances Snider Greene

Número de Páginas: 596

"Anecdotes, tidbits and documents to provide insight into the lives of members of the Peterson, Freeland, gardner, Snider, Hurt and many other families of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Also, data on the Arnold family of Texas, the Ochs family of Tennessee and New York, the Wilder family of Vermont, the Barr family of Pennsylvania, and many others."--Back cover.

Borderland Generation

Autor: Jeffrey Koerber

Número de Páginas: 440

Despite their common heritage, Jews born and raised on opposite sides of the Polish-Soviet border during the interwar period acquired distinct beliefs, values, and attitudes. Variances in civic commitment, school lessons, youth activities, religious observance, housing arrangements, and perceptions of security deeply influenced these adolescents who would soon face a common enemy. Set in two cities flanking the border, Grodno in the interwar Polish Republic and Vitebsk in the Soviet Union, Borderland Generation traces the prewar and wartime experiences of young adult Jews raised under distinct political and social systems. Each cohort harnessed the knowledge and skills attained during their formative years to seek survival during the Holocaust through narrow windows of chance. Antisemitism in Polish Grodno encouraged Jewish adolescents to seek the support of their peers in youth groups. Across the border to the east, the Soviet system offered young Vitebsk Jews opportunities for advancement not possible in Poland, but only if they integrated into the predominantly Slavic society. These backgrounds shaped responses during the Holocaust. Grodno Jews deported to concentration camps...

Living by the Power of God

Autor: John Bonful

Número de Páginas: 314

"Living By the Power of God" is a balm for everyone. It allows for victorious, harmonious relationships with God and one another, instead of being enslaved to sin. (Christian Religion)

Broad Is My Native Land

Autor: Lewis H. Siegelbaum , Leslie Page Moch

Número de Páginas: 442

Whether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia's vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of migration. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch tell the stories of Russians on the move, capturing the rich variety of their experiences by distinguishing among categories of migrants—settlers, seasonal workers, migrants to the city, career and military migrants, evacuees and refugees, deportees, and itinerants. So vast and diverse was Russian political space that in their journeys, migrants often crossed multiple cultural, linguistic, and administrative borders. By comparing the institutions and experiences of migration across the century and placing Russia in an international context, Siegelbaum and Moch have made a magisterial contribution to both the history of Russia and the study of global migration.The authors draw on three kinds of sources: letters to authorities (typically appeals for assistance); the myriad forms employed in communication about the provision of transportation, food, accommodation, and...

Sent to Flourish

Autor: Len Tang , Charles E. Cotherman

Número de Páginas: 291

How can church planters and their congregations flourish for the long haul? Written by a diverse team of scholar-practitioners and filled with real-world insights, stories, and questions for reflection and discussion, this guide gives church planters and their teams the tools to be theologically reflective, spiritually grounded, and missionally agile.

Manley Family Newsletter

Número de Páginas: 654

El Arte del Evangelismo Personal

Autor: Will Mcraney

Número de Páginas: 280

La extensión del Reino de Dios siempre ocurre de la misma manera: alguien se comunica eficazmente con otra persona sobre Jesucristo y su mensaje. El evangelismo personal es el cimiento de todo el crecimiento de la iglesia. A medida que cambian la cultura y las características del mundo moderno, las personas buscan obtener respuestas espirituales para las preguntas más importantes de la vida. Sin embargo, en el crecientemente hacinado mercado de las ideas espirituales, la gente se interesa cada vez menos en la iglesia. Will McRaney aborda este problema con la solución más profunda. Si el Reino de Dios va a extenderse, cada cristiano en particular deberá aprender a comunicar su fe de una manera atractiva, personal y pertinente a la cultura contemporánea receptiva. Expanding God’s kingdom always happens the same way: one person effectively communicating the person and message of Jesus Christ to another. Personal evangelism is the foundation for all church growth. As the culture and landscape of the modern world shift, people are looking for spiritual answers to life’s significant questions. In the increasingly crowded marketplace of spiritual ideas, however, people are...

R.C. Sproul

Autor: Stephen J. Nichols

Número de Páginas: 247

En este libro, Stephen J. Nichols narra la vida y ministerio de R. C. Sproul: su niñez, formación educativa, matrimonio y relación con su esposa Vesta, su influencia en el evangelismo americano y sus muchas amistades con diversas figuras clave como James Montgomery Boice, John MacArthur, John Piper, J. I. Packer y Chuck Colson. Esta biografía detalla el impacto profundo que tuvo Sproul en las vidas de muchos y destaca las diversas formas en que su legado sigue influenciando a incontables pastores y estudiantes alrededor del mundo. In this book, Stephen J. Nichols offers an in-depth look at Sproul’s life and ministry―his childhood; his formative seminary education; his marriage and partnership with his beloved wife, Vesta; his influence on broader American evangelicalism; and his many friendships with key figures such as James Montgomery Boice, John MacArthur, John Piper, J. I. Packer, and Chuck Colson. This biography details the profound impact Sproul had on the lives of many during his lifetime, and highlights the various ways his legacy continues to influence countless pastors and students worldwide.

The Most Famous Woman in Baseball

Autor: Bob Luke

Número de Páginas: 326

Never one to mince words, Effa Manley once wrote a letter to sportswriter Art Carter, saying that she hoped they could meet soon because "I would like to tell you a lot of things you should know about baseball.” From 1936 to 1948, Manley ran the Negro league Newark Eagles that her husband, Abe, owned for roughly a decade. Because of her business acumen, commitment to her players, and larger-than-life personality, she would leave an indelible mark not only on baseball but also on American history. Attending her first owners’ meeting in 1937, Manley delivered an unflattering assessment of the league, prompting Pittsburgh Crawfords owner Gus Greenlee to tell Abe, "Keep your wife at home.” Abe, however, was not convinced, nor was Manley deterred. Like Greenlee, some players thought her too aggressive and inflexible. Others adored her. Regardless of their opinions, she dedicated herself to empowering them on and off the field. She meted out discipline, advice, and support in the form of raises, loans, job recommendations, and Christmas packages, and she even knocked heads with Branch Rickey, Bill Veeck, and Jackie Robinson. Not only a story of Manley’s influence on the baseball ...

Mas palabras de vida para la mujer

Autor: Vida,

Número de Páginas: 184

Percibe el poder de Dios en tu vida y siente inspiración, esperanza y aliento a medida que exploras la Palabra de Dios en este libro diseñado especialmente para mujeres.Esta obra combina las promesas divinas de las Escrituras con selectos pensamientos inspirados tomados de la Biblia Devocional para la Mujer de la Nueva Versión Internacional. Si la empleas en tus momentos decovionales o como referencia para alentar y orar por otros. Más Palabras de Vida para la Mujer será un tesoro para tu biblioteca particular, además de un hermoso regalo para una amistad o familiar.Otros libros de regalo muy útiles son:-Palabras de Vida para la Mujer de la Nueva Versión Internacional-Palabras de Vida para la Parejas de la Nueva Versión Internacional-Palabras de Vida para la Líderes de la Nueva Versión Internacional-Gozo para el alma de la Mujer

Stalin's Gulag at War

Autor: Wilson T. Bell

Número de Páginas: 277

Stalin's Gulag at War places the Gulag within the story of the regional wartime mobilization of Western Siberia during the Second World War. Far from Moscow, Western Siberia was a key area for evacuated factories and for production in support of the war effort. Wilson T. Bell explores a diverse array of issues, including mass death, informal practices such as black markets, and the responses of prisoners and personnel to the war. The region's camps were never prioritized, and faced a constant struggle to mobilize for the war. Prisoners in these camps, however, engaged in such activities as sewing Red Army uniforms, manufacturing artillery shells, and constructing and working in major defense factories. The myriad responses of prisoners and personnel to the war reveal the Gulag as a complex system, but one that was closely tied to the local, regional, and national war effort, to the point where prisoners and non-prisoners frequently interacted. At non-priority camps, moreover, the area's many forced labour camps and colonies saw catastrophic death rates, often far exceeding official Gulag averages. Ultimately, prisoners played a tangible role in Soviet victory, but the cost was...

Gender and housing in Soviet Russia

Autor: Lynne Attwood

Número de Páginas: 377

This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of ‘home’ for Soviet citizens. She examines the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially experienced by men and women. Much of Attwood’s material comes from Soviet magazines and journals, which enables her to demonstrate how official ideas on housing and daily life changed during the course of the Soviet era, and were propagandised to the population. Through a series of in-depth interviews, she also draws on the memories of people with direct experience of Soviet housing and domestic life. Attwood has produced not just a history of housing, but a social history of daily life which will appeal both to scholars and those with a general interest in Soviet history.

Sacrificing Childhood

Autor: Julie K. Degraffenried

Número de Páginas: 264

During the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War, from 1941 to 1945, as many as 24 million of its citizens died. 14 million were children ages fourteen or younger. And for those who survived, the suffering was far from over. The prewar Stalinist vision of a “happy childhood” nurtured by a paternal, loving state had given way, out of necessity. What replaced it—the dictate that children be prepared to sacrifice everything, including childhood itself—created a generation all too familiar with deprivation, violence, and death. The experience of these children, and the role of the state in shaping their narrative, are the subject of this book, which fills in a critical but neglected chapter in the Soviet story and in the history of World War II. In Sacrificing Childhood, Julie deGraffenried chronicles the lives of the Soviet wartime children and the uses to which they were put—not just as combatants or workers in factories and collective farms, but also as fodder for propaganda, their plight a proof of the enemy’s depredations. Not all Soviet children lived through the war in the same way; but in the circumstances of a child in occupied Belarus or in the Leningrad blockade, ...

Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism

Autor: Anna Holian

Número de Páginas: 380

In May of 1945, there were more than eight million “displaced persons” (or DPs) in Germany—recently liberated foreign workers, concentration camp prisoners, and prisoners of war from all of Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as eastern Europeans who had fled west before the advancing Red Army. Although most of them quickly returned home, it soon became clear that large numbers of eastern European DPs could or would not do so. Focusing on Bavaria, in the heart of the American occupation zone, Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism examines the cultural and political worlds that four groups of displaced persons—Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Jewish—created in Germany during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The volume investigates the development of refugee communities and how divergent interpretations of National Socialism and Soviet Communism defined these displaced groups. Combining German and eastern European history, Anna Holian draws on a rich array of sources in cultural and political history and engages the broader literature on displacement in the fields of anthropology, sociology, political theory, and cultural studies. Her book will interest students and...

Catalogue of the State Normal School at San Jose, California for the ... School Year Ending ... with Announcements for the School Year ...

Autor: San Jose State College , San Jose State University

Número de Páginas: 744

Fortress Dark and Stern

Autor: Wendy Z. Goldman , Donald Filtzer

Número de Páginas: 529

The first history of the Soviet home front experience during World War II and of the civilians who bore the burden of total war and played a critical role in the global victory over fascism. After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, German troops conquered the heartland of Soviet industry and agriculture and turned the occupied territories into mass killing fields. The country's survival hung in the balance. In Fortress Dark and Stern, Wendy Z. Goldman and Donald Filtzer tell the epic tale of the Soviet home front during World War II. Against the backdrop of the Red Army's early retreats and hard-fought advances after Stalingrad, they present the impact of total war behind the front lines in a chronicle of spirited defense efforts, draconian state directives, teeming black markets, official corruption, and selfless heroism. In one of the greatest wartime feats in history, Soviet workers rapidly evacuated factories, food, and people thousands of miles to the east. After long and dangerous journeys in unheated boxcars, they built a new industrial base beyond the reach of German bombers. As the Soviet state reached the height of its power, imposing military discipline and...

Hunger and War

Autor: Wendy Z. Goldman , Donald A. Filtzer

Número de Páginas: 392

Drawing on recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II. It explores the role of the state in provisioning the urban population, particularly workers, with food; feeding the Red army; the medicalization of hunger; hunger in blockaded Leningrad; and civilian mortality from hunger and malnutrition in other home front industrial regions. New research reported here challenges and complicates many of the narratives and counter-narratives about the war. The authors engage such difficult subjects as starvation mortality, bitterness over privation and inequalities in provisioning, and conflicts among state organizations. At the same time, they recognize the considerable role played by the Soviet state in organizing supplies of food to adequately support the military effort and defense production and in developing policies that promoted social stability amid upheaval. The book makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the Soviet population's experience of World War II as well as to studies of war and famine.

Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia

Autor: Barbara Alpern Engel

Número de Páginas: 289

Barbara Alpern Engel's Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia is the first book to explore the intricacies of domestic life in Russia across the modern period. Surveying the period from 1700 right up to the present day, the book explores the marital and domestic arrangements of Russians at multiple levels of society and the impact of broader historical developments, including war and revolution, upon them. It also traces the evolution of marriage, household and home as institutions over three centuries, whilst also highlighting the inter-relationship between public policy and private life, in what is a wholly original historical assessment of domesticity in modern Russia. In the process, the author expertly synthesizes the key works, arguments and discussions in the field, mapping out the historiographical landscape of this compelling aspect of Russian social history. Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia is crucial reading for any student or scholar of modern Russian history.

Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral

Autor: Max Ryynänen , Heidi Kosonen , Susanne Ylönen

Número de Páginas: 277

This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied forms and functions disgust takes and is given in both established and vernacular cultural practices. Contributors focus on the socio-cultural creation, consumption, reception, and experience of disgust, a visceral emotion whose cultural situatedness and circulation has historically been overlooked in academic scholarship. Chapters challenge and supplement the biological understanding of disgust as a danger reaction and as a base emotion evoked by the lower senses, touch, taste and smell, through a wealth of original case studies in which disgust is analyzed in its aesthetic qualities, and in its cultural and artistic appearances and uses, featuring visual and aural media. Because it is interdisciplinary, the book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of fields, including visual studies, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology, history, literature, and musicology. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

A Companion to World War II

Autor: Thomas W. Zeiler , Daniel M. Dubois

Número de Páginas: 1541

A Companion to World War II brings together a series of fresh academic perspectives on World War II, exploring the many cultural, social, and political contexts of the war. Essay topics range from American anti-Semitism to the experiences of French-African soldiers, providing nearly 60 new contributions to the genre arranged across two comprehensive volumes. A collection of original historiographic essays that include cutting-edge research Analyzes the roles of neutral nations during the war Examines the war from the bottom up through the experiences of different social classes Covers the causes, key battles, and consequences of the war

Homes and Homecomings

Autor: K. H. Adler , Carrie Hamilton

Número de Páginas: 368

In Homes and Homecomings an international group of scholars provide inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings. Using innovative methodological and theoretical approaches, the book examines case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Provides inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings Takes an historical approach to a subject area that is surprisingly little historicised Features original research from a group of international scholars The book has an international approach that focuses on Africa, Asia, the Americas and East and West Europe Contains original illustrations of homes in a variety of historical contexts