Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema (New Directions in National Cinemas)

Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini’s government that took as their subjects or settings Italy’s African and Balkan colonies. These "empire films" were Italy's entry into an international market for the exotic. The films engaged its most experienced and cosmopolitan directors (Augusto Genina, Mario Camerini) as well as new filmmakers (Roberto Rossellini) who would make their marks in the postwar years. Ben-Ghiat sees these films as part of the aesthetic development that would lead to neo-realism. Shot in Libya, Somalia, and Ethiopia, these movies reinforced Fascist racial and labor policies and were largely forgotten after the war. Ben-Ghiat restores them to Italian and international film history in this gripping account of empire, war, and the cinema of dictatorship.

Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries

History

Bushnell, John

Russia

Indiana University Press

John Bushnell’s analysis of previously unstudied church records and provincial archives reveals surprising marriage patterns in Russian peasant villages in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some villages the rate of unmarried women reached as high as 70 percent. The religious group most closely identified with female peasant marriage aversion was the Old Believer Spasovite covenant, and Bushnell argues that some of these women might have had more agency in the decision to marry than more common peasant tradition ordinarily allowed. Bushnell explores the cataclysmic social and economic impacts these decisions had on the villages, sometimes dragging entire households into poverty and ultimate dissolution. In this act of defiance, this group of socially, politically, and economically subordinated peasants went beyond traditional acts of resistance and reaction.

Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)

John Bushnell’s analysis of previously unstudied church records and provincial archives reveals surprising marriage patterns in Russian peasant villages in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some villages the rate of unmarried women reached as high as 70 percent. The religious group most closely identified with female peasant marriage aversion was the Old Believer Spasovite covenant, and Bushnell argues that some of these women might have had more agency in the decision to marry than more common peasant tradition ordinarily allowed. Bushnell explores the cataclysmic social and economic impacts these decisions had on the villages, sometimes dragging entire households into poverty and ultimate dissolution. In this act of defiance, this group of socially, politically, and economically subordinated peasants went beyond traditional acts of resistance and reaction.

[The book] succeeds remarkably in providing a multifaceted, yet interconnected, analysis of this signal era of modern Russian history and it is heartily recommended." ―The HistorianThis volume, the work of an international group of scholars that includes historians from Russia, maps out the major landmarks in the conceptualization and implementation of the Great Reforms during the reign of Alexander II and proposes a variety of perspectives from which to view them.

Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)

Eklof, Ben

Indiana Univ. Pr

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Mutiny Amid Repression: Russian Soldiers in the Revolution of 1905-1906

Military

Russian Peasant Bride Theft (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe)

Reference

Routledge

Moscow Graffiti: Language and Subculture (Routledge Revivals)

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Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries

Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)

Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries

Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)

Mutiny Amid Repression: Russian Soldiers in the Revolution of 1905-1906

Russian Peasant Bride Theft (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe)

Moscow Graffiti: Language and Subculture (Routledge Revivals)