The Moldovans

Author : Charles King
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 0817997938
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moldovans written by Charles King and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language book to present a complete picture of this intriguing East European borderland, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, illuminates the perennial problems of identity politics and cultural change that the country has endured.

Author : Tony Hawks
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466852275
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing the Moldovans at Tennis written by Tony Hawks and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It doesn't take much - "£100 is usually sufficient" - to persuade Tony Hawks to take off on notoriously bizarre and hilarious adventures in response to a bet. And so it is, a pointless argument with a friend concludes in a bet - that Tony can't beat all eleven members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis. And with the loser of the bet agreeing to strip naked on Balham High Road and sing the Moldovan national anthem, this one was just too good to resist. The ensuing unpredictable and often hilarious adventure sees him being taken in by Moldovan gypsies and narrowly avoid kidnap in Transnistria. It sees him smuggle his way on to the Moldovan National Team coach in Coleraine and witness (almost) divine intervention in the Holy Land. In this inspiring and exceptionally funny book, Tony Hawks has done it again, proving against all odds that there is no reason in the world why you can't do something a bit stupid and prove all of your doubters wrong. Or at least that was the idea....

Author : Matthew H. Ciscel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of the Moldovans written by Matthew H. Ciscel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the identity of contemporary Moldovans from the perspective of debates about the languages they speak. The result is an image of an emerging nation of bilinguals that is, at once, similar to the experiences of other ex-Soviet states and uniquely complex.

Author : Charles King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780817997984
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moldovans written by Charles King and published by . This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language book to present a complete picture of this intriguing East European borderland, "The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, " illuminates the perennial problems of identity politics and cultural change that the country has endured.

Author : Stephen Henighan
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770706550
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Province written by Stephen Henighan and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2002-11-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World War II. As a Westerner in this "lost province" and former Soviet republic, Henighan feels he's an unnerving disappointment for many Moldovans, especially to the MTV-addicted, twenty-year-old Andrei.

Author : Stuart J. Kaufman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801487361
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Hatreds written by Stuart J. Kaufman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaufman begins by surveying the stories various reporters and analysts have told about the conflict in Yugoslavia. From these stories he unravels some underlying assumptions, then gleans insights from each type of analysis, and combines them into a more comprehensive explanation for the causes of ethnic war. He writes clearly of the complexities, teasing out relationships among the factors of history, symbols, attitudes, leadership, and the economy. Kaufman acknowledges support for this study from the United States Institute of Peace and the University of Kentucky, among other institutions, but his current affiliation is not stated in the book. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Jennifer R. Cash
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643902182
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Villages on Stage written by Jennifer R. Cash and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Villages on Stage examines the contribution of folklore and ethnography to the construction of national identity in post-Soviet Moldova through the development of a new genre of folkloric performance. By highlighting the contribution of villages to the creation of national culture and identity, the standards of authenticity for amateur folkloric ensembles generate an alternative discourse to the State's official, but contentious, promotion of multiethnic policies. At once inclusive and exclusive of the country's multiple ethnic groups, the goals, practices, and ideologies embodied in folkloric performance portray both the local dilemmas of post-socialist nation-building and the shared challenge for folklore and ethnography to participate in public debates about cultural diversity. (Series: Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia - Vol. 26)

Author : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report on the Moldovan Parliamentary Elections, February 27, 1994 written by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles King
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393080528
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams written by Charles King and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a National Jewish Book Award "Fascinating.…A humane and tragic survey of a great and tragic subject." —Jan Morris, Literary Review From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan freedom on the Black Sea. Drawing on a wealth of original sources and offering the first detailed account of the destruction of the city's Jewish community during the Second World War, Charles King's Odessa is both history and elegy—a vivid chronicle of a multicultural city and its remarkable resilience over the past two centuries.

Author : Victor Taki
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 963386383X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia on the Danube written by Victor Taki and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the goals of Russia’s Eastern policy was to turn Moldavia and Wallachia, the two Romanian principalities north of the Danube, from Ottoman vassals into a controllable buffer zone and a springboard for future military operations against Constantinople. Russia on the Danube describes the divergent interests and uneasy cooperation between the Russian officials and the Moldavian and Wallachian nobility in a key period between 1812 and 1834. Victor Taki’s meticulous examination of the plans and memoranda composed by Russian administrators and the Romanian elite underlines the crucial consequences of this encounter. The Moldavian and Wallachian nobility used the Russian-Ottoman rivalry in order to preserve and expand their traditional autonomy. The comprehensive institutional reforms born out of their interaction with the tsar’s officials consolidated territorial statehood on the lower Danube, providing the building blocks of a nation state. The main conclusion of the book is that although Russian policy was driven by self-interest, and despite the Russophobia among a great part of the Romanian intellectuals, this turbulent period significantly contributed to the emergence, several decades later, of modern Romania.