Author: Jonathan Packer
Publisher: Vacation Work Publications
ISBN: 9781854581907
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Anyone hoping to work in the former Communist countries of Europe needs the very best, up-to-date advice. This new book shows where the best possibilities are for both the prospective employee and the enterprising entrepreneur hoping to start a business.
Live & Work in Russia and Eastern Europe
Author: Jonathan Packer
Publisher: Vacation Work Publications
ISBN: 9781854581907
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Anyone hoping to work in the former Communist countries of Europe needs the very best, up-to-date advice. This new book shows where the best possibilities are for both the prospective employee and the enterprising entrepreneur hoping to start a business.
Publisher: Vacation Work Publications
ISBN: 9781854581907
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Anyone hoping to work in the former Communist countries of Europe needs the very best, up-to-date advice. This new book shows where the best possibilities are for both the prospective employee and the enterprising entrepreneur hoping to start a business.
Live Working Or Die Fighting
Author: Paul Mason
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608460703
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
"This is micro-historical writing at its best."--Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of Domination "Brilliant."--Ken Loach The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, gun-toting railway strikers in America's Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I. It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the developing industrial economies of the world, it is still with us. Live Working or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defiance, idealism, and self-sacrifice, one as alive and active today as it was two hundred years ago. It is a unique and inspirational book. Paul Mason is an award-winning journalist who reports regularly on labor rights and social justice stories as economics editor for BBC World News America and BBC Newsnight. In addition to Live Working or Die Fighting, which was shortlisted as a 2007 Guardian First Book Award, Mason is the author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed (Verso Books).
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608460703
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
"This is micro-historical writing at its best."--Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of Domination "Brilliant."--Ken Loach The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, gun-toting railway strikers in America's Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I. It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the developing industrial economies of the world, it is still with us. Live Working or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defiance, idealism, and self-sacrifice, one as alive and active today as it was two hundred years ago. It is a unique and inspirational book. Paul Mason is an award-winning journalist who reports regularly on labor rights and social justice stories as economics editor for BBC World News America and BBC Newsnight. In addition to Live Working or Die Fighting, which was shortlisted as a 2007 Guardian First Book Award, Mason is the author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed (Verso Books).
Americans from Russia and Eastern Europe
Author: Gail Garfinkel Weiss
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761443100
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This series takes a look at the different cultures that have helped shape America into what it is today
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761443100
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This series takes a look at the different cultures that have helped shape America into what it is today
Chinese Migrants in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe
Author: Felix B. Chang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136640592
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Much of the former Soviet bloc has become a destination for new Chinese migrants. Throughout Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Chinese migrants are engaged in entrepreneurial activities, primarily as petty merchants of consumer goods in unsteady economies. This book situates these migrants within the broader context of Chinese globalization and China’s economic "rise." It traces the origins of Chinese migration into the region, as well as the conditions that have allowed migrants to thrive. Furthermore, it discusses the perception that Chinese globalization is purely economic and explores the relationship among petty merchants, labourers and institutional investors. Finally, by examining the movement of China’s minorities into Central Asia, this book challenges the ethnic construct of new "Chinese" migration.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136640592
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Much of the former Soviet bloc has become a destination for new Chinese migrants. Throughout Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Chinese migrants are engaged in entrepreneurial activities, primarily as petty merchants of consumer goods in unsteady economies. This book situates these migrants within the broader context of Chinese globalization and China’s economic "rise." It traces the origins of Chinese migration into the region, as well as the conditions that have allowed migrants to thrive. Furthermore, it discusses the perception that Chinese globalization is purely economic and explores the relationship among petty merchants, labourers and institutional investors. Finally, by examining the movement of China’s minorities into Central Asia, this book challenges the ethnic construct of new "Chinese" migration.
Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe
Author: Mark D. Steinberg
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 1501757172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Bringing together important new work by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe approaches emotions as a phenomenon complexly intertwined with society, culture, politics, and history. The stories in this book involve sensitive aristocrats, committed revolutionaries, aggressive nationalists, political leaders, female victims of sexual violence, perpetrators and victims of Stalinist terror, citizens in the former Yugoslavia in the wake of war, workers in post-socialist Romania, Balkan Romani "Gypsy" musicians, and veterans of the Afghan and Chechen wars. These essays explore emotional perception and expression not only as private, inward feeling but also as a way of interpreting and judging a troubled world, acting in it, and perhaps changing it. Essential reading for those interested in new perspectives on the study of Russia and Eastern Europe, past and present, this volume will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities who are seeking new and deeper approaches to understanding human experience, thought, and feeling.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 1501757172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Bringing together important new work by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe approaches emotions as a phenomenon complexly intertwined with society, culture, politics, and history. The stories in this book involve sensitive aristocrats, committed revolutionaries, aggressive nationalists, political leaders, female victims of sexual violence, perpetrators and victims of Stalinist terror, citizens in the former Yugoslavia in the wake of war, workers in post-socialist Romania, Balkan Romani "Gypsy" musicians, and veterans of the Afghan and Chechen wars. These essays explore emotional perception and expression not only as private, inward feeling but also as a way of interpreting and judging a troubled world, acting in it, and perhaps changing it. Essential reading for those interested in new perspectives on the study of Russia and Eastern Europe, past and present, this volume will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities who are seeking new and deeper approaches to understanding human experience, thought, and feeling.
On Living Through Soviet Russia
Author: Daniel Bertaux
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134391471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s resulted in a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television and more formally collected by new Russian oral history groups and western researchers. This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134391471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s resulted in a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television and more formally collected by new Russian oral history groups and western researchers. This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.
History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Eastern Europe (Including All of Russia) (1783-2020)
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1948436175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and will illustrated book on this subject. Extensive subject and geographical index. 146 photographs, maps and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1948436175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and will illustrated book on this subject. Extensive subject and geographical index. 146 photographs, maps and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books
Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia
Author: Ewa Mazierska
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474405150
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body in Eastern European and Russian cinema after the Second World War. Drawing on the history of the region, as well as Western and Eastern scholarship on the body, the book focuses on three areas: the traumatized body, the body as a site of erotic pleasure, and the relationship between the body and history. Critically dissecting the different ideological and aesthetic ways human bodies are framed, The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia also demonstrates how bodily discourses oscillate between complicity and subversion, and how they shaped individuals and societies both during and after the period of state socialism.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474405150
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body in Eastern European and Russian cinema after the Second World War. Drawing on the history of the region, as well as Western and Eastern scholarship on the body, the book focuses on three areas: the traumatized body, the body as a site of erotic pleasure, and the relationship between the body and history. Critically dissecting the different ideological and aesthetic ways human bodies are framed, The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia also demonstrates how bodily discourses oscillate between complicity and subversion, and how they shaped individuals and societies both during and after the period of state socialism.
Live & Work in Germany
Author: Ian Collier
Publisher: Vacation Work Publications
ISBN: 9781854581846
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The re-unification of Germany has created fresh opportunities - and challenges - for those who are interested in living and working there. This guide gives readers both a realistic idea of the possibilities for working in Germay and advice for those wishing to buy or rent a home. It also includes essential details of the German way of life, including information on taxation, the social security system, health services and levels of pay that will prove invaluable to anyone thinking of settling there either temporarily or permanently.
Publisher: Vacation Work Publications
ISBN: 9781854581846
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The re-unification of Germany has created fresh opportunities - and challenges - for those who are interested in living and working there. This guide gives readers both a realistic idea of the possibilities for working in Germay and advice for those wishing to buy or rent a home. It also includes essential details of the German way of life, including information on taxation, the social security system, health services and levels of pay that will prove invaluable to anyone thinking of settling there either temporarily or permanently.
Cultural Identity and Civil Society in Russia and Eastern Europe
Author: David M. Borgmeyer
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443864803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This volume is dedicated to the memory of Charles E. Timberlake. The contributors include his former colleagues and students. The first section deals with “Liberalism and Civil Society in Russia and Eastern Europe.” Alla Barabtarlo discusses unfinished research conducted by Charles Timberlake on the liberal activist Ivan Petrunkevich. Evgeny Badredinov analyzes research on the Russian village conducted by an important liberal lawyer and sociologist, Maksim Kovalevskii. Andrew Wise examines commentary by Polish liberals and their exiled Russian colleagues published in the Warsaw press from 1920–1923. The second section deals with “Orthodoxy and Cultural Identity in Late Imperial Russia.” Robert Nichols explains the role in Russia’s monastic revival played by Gethsemane skete, a monastic cloister that was founded in 1844. Sally Stocksdale details the motivations of a self-cloistering Russian noblewoman (Praskovia Yazikova) of the nineteenth century. Jesse Murray explores the cultural and religious identities of residents in the Baikal region. David Borgmeyer focuses on the response to the works of Pablo Picasso by one art critic, Sergei Bulgakov. The third section deals with “Civil Society in the Post-Soviet Era.” Byron Scott demonstrates that press freedom has been a contentious issue in these societies. James McCartney analyzes the reforming of the educational system in independent Georgia.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443864803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This volume is dedicated to the memory of Charles E. Timberlake. The contributors include his former colleagues and students. The first section deals with “Liberalism and Civil Society in Russia and Eastern Europe.” Alla Barabtarlo discusses unfinished research conducted by Charles Timberlake on the liberal activist Ivan Petrunkevich. Evgeny Badredinov analyzes research on the Russian village conducted by an important liberal lawyer and sociologist, Maksim Kovalevskii. Andrew Wise examines commentary by Polish liberals and their exiled Russian colleagues published in the Warsaw press from 1920–1923. The second section deals with “Orthodoxy and Cultural Identity in Late Imperial Russia.” Robert Nichols explains the role in Russia’s monastic revival played by Gethsemane skete, a monastic cloister that was founded in 1844. Sally Stocksdale details the motivations of a self-cloistering Russian noblewoman (Praskovia Yazikova) of the nineteenth century. Jesse Murray explores the cultural and religious identities of residents in the Baikal region. David Borgmeyer focuses on the response to the works of Pablo Picasso by one art critic, Sergei Bulgakov. The third section deals with “Civil Society in the Post-Soviet Era.” Byron Scott demonstrates that press freedom has been a contentious issue in these societies. James McCartney analyzes the reforming of the educational system in independent Georgia.