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Crossing the divide: tradition, rupture, and modernity in Revolutionary Russia
No full textThis agenda-setting chapter sets the pathway for future research into the Russian Revolution. Nineteen-seventeen has often been presented as a complete break with the past, with everything which had gone before swept away, and all aspects of politics, economy, and society reformed and made new. This is a Bolshevik narrative that scholars have all too easily accepted. However, by applying the theory of “multiple modernities” and “entangled modernities” to the Russian Revolution, this chapter shows how the new and the old came together to create the Soviet experience—it reveals how a complicated mixture of new Soviet thinking and ideas developed before 1917 converged to established a specific cultural context. The chapter also shows how current historiographical factions might speak to one another through a “multiple modernities approach” that presents change and continuity as part of a historical relationship. More specifically, it unites the “modernity school” (which has focused on modern ideology and statecraft as an explanation for the Soviet Union) and the “neo-traditional school” (which has focused on unchanging patron-client relations as a means of explaining all Russian history). By accepting a plurality of modernities—not just a Eurocentric version—we can better understand the development of the Soviet Union. We also get away from the idea that Russia “got modernity wrong” or that the Bolsheviks imposed modernity on an unchanging state
Andy Willimott: Living the Revolution. Urban Communes and Soviet Socialism 1917–1932 [review in English]
No full textAndy Willimott: Living the Revolution. Urban Communes and Soviet Socialism 1917–1932, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017. 224 pp. – ISBN 978-0-1987-2582-4
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Rethinking the Russian Revolution as historical divide
No full textThis monograph is the product of a series of workshops held in the UK and the USA, the premise of which was to suggest that 1917 is the wrong departure point for a full analysis of the social and cultural particularities of the Soviet Union. Breaking away from the binary of ‘change and continuity’, however, we asked how the new and the old (tradition and modernity) came together to make the Soviet experience ‘across 1917’. Building on these workshops, we have gathered 15 scholars from America, Europe, Russia, and the Middle East to contribute to this edition. This volume examines, among other things, the social and cultural frameworks that helped determine Soviet perceptions of social duty, justice, and governance
Global Media Ideas - Infinite Pathways to Creative Succes - Andy Elwood - Part One.mp4
No full textDuring the X Media Lab: Global Media Ideas summit in June 2011, media and technology writer Brad Howarth conducted interviews with industry experts for Creativeinnovation. This video is part one of Brad Howarth's interview with Andy Elwood, Directory of Business Development at Gowalla. Andy Elwood discusses the idea behind the application and how their founder Josh Williams went from inspiration to launching the idea as a business and where they stand in the market today
Global Media Ideas - Infinite Pathways to Creative Succes - Andy Elwood - Part Two.mp4
No full textDuring the X Media Lab: Global Media Ideas summit in June 2011, media and technology writer Brad Howarth conducted interviews with industry experts for Creativeinnovation. This video is part two of Brad Howarth's interview with Andy Elwood, Director of Business Development at Gowalla. Andy Elwood discuss how other companies should be taking advantage of the location platform to create experiences of their brand, not just using the platform as a point of data generation. Elwood also observes that Australian brands and creative companies are well positioned to become market leaders in this platform which is still relatively new world-wide
Marie and Andy Auzin visit the Old Town part of Riga Latvia
No full textMarie and Andy Auzins visit the Old Town part of Riga with cousin Elita Petersone in 19942.1.3 Current Latvian History in Europe (Pre-Post WWII), 2.1.1 Physical Attributes of Latvi
20 x 20 : Twenty Years of Conundrum Press
No full text"To celebrate twenty years in operation he [Andy Brown] asked one author or artist for each year of the press who had a book out that year to contribute something new, something that represented Conundrum. For some it would have been the first book he or she had ever made. So in the end twenty Conundrumites represent twenty years, hence 20×20. There will be digging deep into the archives, there will be memoirs, there will be comics, drawings, and photographs. There will be laughter and tears of joy." -- Publisher's website
Episode 62: Andy Jones: Asking the Right Questions
No full textAndy Jones, B.A. \u2706 is a writer, pastor, and CSP alumnus who lives in the Bay Area. In this interview, he shares about his experiences as a CSP student and staff member, his ministry journey, and how he became a published author. His books bring tremendous theological insights in an accessible and understandable manner
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The kommuna impulse: collective mechanisms and commune-ists in the early Soviet State
No full textThis study examines the creation of the urban kommuna (commune) and the ideals that stimulated this social phenomenon – the kommuna impulse of the nascent Soviet state. Collective idealism affected Soviet housing, architecture and even urban planning, but little is known of social experiments in commune‐ism. As a result, these collective cells have been dismissed as utopian anomalies or the product of a housing shortage. Here it is argued that these discursive assessments are unsatisfactory and isolated from the historical narrative. While utopian ideals and domestic necessity were central to the formation of collective living, the kommuna was also involved in an active discourse with collectivism and socialist ideology. The kommuna cell was a dynamic entity that required considerable formative planning. The activists who forged these cells – the self‐identified ‘communards’ – turned their everyday domestic life into a socialist battleground, in which they struggled with the key debates of the early Soviet state. This article examines the communard as a social activist in order to better understand this phenomenon. It clarifies the coexistence of ideological and idealist trends among Soviet youth with practical contingencies for socialism. Furthermore, it reveals the process by which the kommuna impulse and these contingencies developed throughout the 1920s and early 1930s
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