The Petrograd Workers and the Soviet Seizure of Power

History

Mandel, David

Russia

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

In this fitting companion to the JPS TANAKH, David Mandel has undertaken the enormous task of cataloging every character in the Hebrew Bible. From Aaron to Zurishaddai, this comprehensive biographical dictionary gives readers the opportunity to get up close and personal with everyone named in the Bible—its patriarchs, matriarchs, and prophets, warriors and peacemakers, holy men and sinners, heroes and villains. 
 Arranged in an encyclopedic A to Z format, Who’s Who in the Jewish Bible is much more than a catalog of names. It contains detailed biographical information as well as fascinating facts and intriguing stories, written in a contemporary narrative style, about all the Bible’s characters. Each entry also includes the origin and meaning of the name, the dates he or she lived (if known), and the person’s first appearance in the Bible by book, chapter, and verse. Who’s Who in the Jewish Bible is the most thorough and comprehensive book of its kind and an invaluable reference for students, teachers, rabbis, and anyone interested in knowing more about the people of the Hebrew Bible. Those who search for a name in the Bible, whether well-known or obscure, will be rewarded with well-organized information that will add new meaning and enjoyment to their reading.

Who's Who in the Jewish Bible

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY

Was October 1917 a coup d’état or a social revolution? Writing as both a historian and political activist, Ernest Mandel sets out to analyse the events and vigorously reasserts the deep legitimacy of the Russian Revolution. He considers the gains of the revolution, discusses the mistakes made by the Bolshevik leadership in 1917-21, and sets out lessons to be learnt for revolutionary Marxists today.

October 1917: Workers in Power

Le Blanc, Paul

Military

Merlin Press

Rabotygi

Monthly Review+press

From Publishers Weekly In Russian parlance, rabotyagi are ``working stiffs,'' and Mandel's 16 interviewees--men and women who are members of a weak labor movement in turmoil-ridden states--reinforce the author's hope for a transition to democratic socialism. The interviews took place from 1988 to 1993 and, though they lack extensive authorial interpolation, should interest experts on the Soviet and post-Soviet economies and recent regional history. A 1988 interviewee warns that despite perestroika , power remains ``in the hands of the party-state bureaucracy.'' A worker turned foreman during that period reflects on the foreman's uncomfortable position, caught between the irreconcilable demands of his superiors and workers. Another interviewee naively believes good workers will be rewarded under capitalism. Interviewed after the collapse of Communism, an activist fighting for workers' rights speaks nobly about his responsibility ``to accomplish what our grandparents failed in 1918 and 1919.'' Among post-coup interviewees, one warns presciently in 1992 of the possible rise of right-wing nationalists (and of Vladimir Zhirinovsky in particular). Mandel teaches political science at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Copyright 1994 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal In Russian, rabotyagi means "working stiffs," as opposed to rabochii ("worker"). This is an important distinction, because Mandel (political science, Univ. of Quebec) is concerned with ordinary workers who do not conform to the heroic ideals of official Soviet dogma. From summer 1988 to summer 1993 Mandel interviewed workers, surveying their impressions of life in the moribund Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine. The opinions they offer are personal and without pretense. While a more systematic treatment can be found in Linda Cook's The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed (Harvard Univ. Pr., 1993), which examines the tacit agreement between the Soviet state and workers who traded economic security for political compliance, Mandel's volume is a purposeful (but admittedly unscientific) examination of what rabotyagi have thought of the momentous changes in the "worker's paradise." For academic collections.- Joseph P. Parsons, Columbia Coll., ChicagoCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Rabotyagi: Perestroika and After Viewed from Below, Interviews with Workers in the Former Soviet Union

The most extensive who’s who book of biblical history! The Ultimate Who’s Who in the Bible brings 3000 people in the Bible to life in a narrative format that presents the biography of each person in a coherent and continuous story. Every person in the Bible is included, from Aaron to Zurishaddat, along with information on the meaning of each name. Authoritative and indispensable, The Ultimate Who’s Who in the Bible is much more than a reference book––it’s an essential tool for every Christian’s library.

Ultimate Whos Who In The Bible

World

Bridge-Logos Publishers

Academic Corporation

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Black Rose Books

The account of political discrimination and violation of the "citizens first" hiring principle at McGill University. "Yet another one of academe's sordid little stories illustrating once again nuances that nobody inside or outside universities should ever disregard."--Globe and Mail

Business & Money

Economics

Hakirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought

Religion & Spirituality

Zelcer, Heshey

Zivotofsky, Ari Z.

Ron, Zvi

Buchman, Asher Benzion

Kaplan, Lawrence

Guttmann, David

Meyer, Gedalia

Messner, Henoch

Warburg, A. Yehudah

Judaism

Hakirah

FAMILY MATTERS

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Independently published

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