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Roy and Zhores Medvedev, two identical twins with a unique fate,
not only lived through a whole century of history, from Stalin to
Putin, they wrote and made history. Their research on Stalinism,
the first to come out of the Soviet Union in the 1960s-1970s,
turned them into famous dissidents overnight, but their criticism
of the regime always remained loyal to Soviet power. The story of
their lives provides a snapshot into the history of Soviet dissent,
from psychiatric hospitalization to forced exile, and from KGB
interrogations to collaboration with Western news correspondents.
Yet their trajectory was also marred by controversy with fellow
dissidents, and in the post-Soviet era active support of
authoritarian rulers, including Vladimir Putin.Â
Roy and Zhores Medvedev, two identical twins with a unique fate,
not only lived through a whole century of history, from Stalin to
Putin, they wrote and made history. Their research on Stalinism,
the first to come out of the Soviet Union in the 1960s-1970s,
turned them into famous dissidents overnight, but their criticism
of the regime always remained loyal to Soviet power. The story of
their lives provides a snapshot into the history of Soviet dissent,
from psychiatric hospitalization to forced exile, and from KGB
interrogations to collaboration with Western news correspondents.
Yet their trajectory was also marred by controversy with fellow
dissidents, and in the post-Soviet era active support of
authoritarian rulers, including Vladimir Putin.Â
This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet
religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from
the 1960s to the 1980s. Based on a broad range of new sources on
the daily life of religious communities, including material from
regional archives and oral history, it shows that religion not only
survived Soviet anti-religious repression, but also adapted to new
conditions. Going beyond traditional views about a mere "returned
of the repressed", the book shows how new forms of religiosity and
religious socialisation emerged, as new generations born into
atheist families turned to religion in search of new meaning, long
before perestroika facilitated this process. In addition, the book
examines anew religious activism and transnational networks between
Soviet believers and Western organisations during the Cold War,
explores the religious dimension of Soviet female activism, and
shifts the focus away from the non-religious human rights movement
and from religious institutions to ordinary believers.
This comprehensive set of nursing skills and procedures can be used
across the nursing curriculum. It also serves as a good procedure
manual for hospitals and medical clinics. The most complete,
up-to-date, and useful guide to performing current, evidence-based,
clinical nursing skills Current with both the National Council Test
Plan for RN and the NCLEX (R), Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to
Advanced Skills teaches more than 550 nursing skills, from basic to
complex. For each skill, students learn how to assess clients,
formulate nursing diagnoses, perform procedures according to safe
and accepted protocols, evaluate outcomes, and document pertinent
data. Organized around the nursing process, the text helps readers
understand the overall theory and rationales for each skill and
technique. Coverage of evidence-based care, cultural/religious
considerations, nursing management, and community-based nursing is
provided throughout. Extensive case studies, critical-thinking
features, NCLEX-style review questions, and new QSEN activities
give students practice applying their knowledge and clinical
reasoning. Easily adaptable to any conceptual curriculum model,
Clinical Nursing Skills is the definitive resource for best
practice nursing standards, guidelines, and competencies.
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Refuge (Paperback)
Barbara Martin
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R277
Discovery Miles 2 770
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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How was it possible to write history in the Soviet Union, under
strict state control and without access to archives? What methods
of research did these 'historians' - be they academic, that is
based at formal institutions, or independent - rely on? And how was
their work influenced by their complex and shifting relationships
with the state? To answer these questions, Barbara Martin here
tracks the careers of four bold and important dissidents: Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, Roy Medvedev, Aleksandr Nekrich and Anton
Antonov-Ovseenko. Based on extensive archival research and
interviews (with some of the authors themselves, as well as those
close to them), the result is a nuanced and very necessary history
of Soviet dissident history writing, from the relative
liberalisation of de-Stalinisation through increasing repression
and persecution in the Brezhnev era to liberalisation once more
during perestroika. In the process Martin sheds light onto late
Soviet society and its relationship with the state, as well as the
ways in which this dissidence participated in weakening the Soviet
regime during Perestroika. This is important reading for all
scholars working on late Soviet history and society.
Londres, 2009, una secta siembra el panico entre la sociedad. Junto
a las victimas, simbolos inteligibles y numeros. Norman Gordon,
agente de la New Scotland Yard de Londres se vera forzado a
encontrar a los asesinos, tras un tragico suceso que marcara su
vida. No tardara en darse cuenta de que hay mucho mas en juego que
su propia vida y que lo que aparentaba un caso mas sobre crimenes
sectarios oculta un misterio mucho mayor.
How was it possible to write history in the Soviet Union, under
strict state control and without access to archives? What methods
of research did these 'historians' - be they academic, that is
based at formal institutions, or independent - rely on? And how was
their work influenced by their complex and shifting relationships
with the state? To answer these questions, Barbara Martin here
tracks the careers of four bold and important dissidents: Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, Roy Medvedev, Aleksandr Nekrich and Anton
Antonov-Ovseenko. Based on extensive archival research and
interviews (with some of the authors themselves, as well as those
close to them), the result is a nuanced and very necessary history
of Soviet dissident history writing, from the relative
liberalisation of de-Stalinisation through increasing repression
and persecution in the Brezhnev era to liberalisation once more
during perestroika. In the process Martin sheds light onto late
Soviet society and its relationship with the state, as well as the
ways in which this dissidence participated in weakening the Soviet
regime during Perestroika. This is important reading for all
scholars working on late Soviet history and society.
As charismatic and gifted as he was volatile, Jimmy Martin recorded
dozens of bluegrass classics and co-invented the high lonesome
sound. Barbara Martin Stephens became involved with the King of
Bluegrass at age seventeen. Don't Give your Heart to a Rambler
tells the story of their often tumultuous life together. Barbara
bore his children and took on a crucial job as his booking agent
when the agent he was using failed to obtain show dates for the
group. Female booking agents were non-existent at that time but she
persevered and went on to become the first female booking agent on
Music Row. She also endured years of physical and emotional abuse
at Martin's hands. With courage and candor, Barbara tells of the
suffering and traces the hard-won personal growth she found inside
motherhood and her work. Her vivid account of Martin's explosive
personality and torment over his exclusion from the Grand Ole Opry
fill in the missing details on a career renowned for being stormy.
Barbara also shares her own journey, one of good humor and proud
achievements, and filled with fond and funny recollections of the
music legends and ordinary people she met, befriended, and
represented along the way. Straightforward and honest, Don't Give
your Heart to a Rambler is a woman's story of the world of
bluegrass and one of its most colorful, conflicted artists.
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