Extensively revised and based on documentation only recently made available in the West, this is the ideal one-volume survey of centuries of Russian historyReflecting the changed outlook of Russia as it approaches the new millennium, this updated edition offers authoritative accounts of the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century, the Mongol conquest, the birth of the nation-state, and early Romanov absolutism, along with fresh analyses of the policies and personalities of the Soviet Union and an outline of the Yeltsin years and the dilemmas facing Russia today.

The Making of Modern Russia: Revised Edition

History

Abraham, Richard

Kochan, Lionel

Russia

Penguin??Books

The third revised edition begins with the arrival of the Slavs in the 6th century and ends with Gorbachev, the demise of communism and an outline of the Yeltsin years. Greater attention has been paid to developments in Russian provinces and also to the history of arts and cultural life.

The Making of Modern Russia: Third Edition (Penguin Original)

Americas

The Making of Modern Russia

Europe

Maya Cities

Kochan, Miriam

Rivet, Paul

Paul Elek

'A straightforward account of a complicated story ... a valuable introduction to the general reader.' The Sunday Times

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This is the book form of a set of Sherman lectures (1990-1991) delivered by the writer for the Department of Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester. They deal with the new context of Jewish life since 1945 and three associated sources of discontent - the ideology of the soil of Israel, the invention of orthodoxy, and the alienation of Jews from their past through the influence of the Shoah. Where these sources of discontent are investigated, the writer also aims to juxtapose positive counter-measures.

The Jewish Renaissance and Some of Its Discontents (Sherman Studies of Judaism in Modern Times)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Manchester Univ Pr

Beyond The Graven Image: A Jewish View

From the archetypical story of Abraham smashing his father's household idols to God's commandment at Mount Sinai that "You shall have no other gods before Me," the prohibition in Judaism against the worship of idols has been unyielding. Idolatry is conceived as the antithesis to the worship of the invisible, unnamed, and articulate God.  The proscription against using images in worship sets Judaism, together with Islam, apart from all other religious systems. In Beyond the Graven Image, Lionel Kochan sets out to explain the reasons for this prohibition and to demonstrate how influential this image-ban has been in determining key aspects of Jewish thinking. The Jewish conceptions of holiness and symbolism, our relationship with God, and the role of memory in religion, he argues, as well as the preference for non- material arts such as music over visual modes of artistic expression within Judaism, have all been profoundly shaped by the prohibition against physical representations of God.

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

NYU Press

From the archetypical story of Abraham smashing his father's household idols to God's commandment at Mount Sinai that "You shall have no other gods before Me," the prohibition in Judaism against the worship of idols has been unyielding. Idolatry is conceived as the antithesis to the worship of the invisible, unnamed, and articulate God. The proscription against using images in worship sets Judaism, together with Islam, apart from all other religious systems. In Beyond the Graven Image, Lionel Kochan sets out to explain the reasons for this prohibition and to demonstrate how influential this image-ban has been in determining key aspects of Jewish thinking. The Jewish conceptions of holiness and symbolism, our relationship with God, and the role of memory in religion, he argues, as well as the preference for non- material arts such as music over visual modes of artistic expression within Judaism, have all been profoundly shaped by the prohibition against physical representations of God.

Macmillan Press

Lenin (Wayland history makers)

Children's Books

Wayland

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