1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794116203321

Titolo

1917 : revolution in Russia and its aftermath / / Emma Goldman [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal : , : Black Rose Books, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-55164-666-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (423 pages)

Disciplina

335.430947

Soggetti

Communism - Soviet Union

Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Personal narratives

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Table of Contents -- MY DISILLUSIONMENT IN RUSSIA -- Preface To First Volume of American Edition -- Preface To Second Volume of American Edition -- I - Deportation to Russia -- II - Petrograd -- III - Disturbing Thoughts -- IV - Moscow: First Impressions -- V - Meeting People -- VI - Preparing For American Deportees -- VII - Rest Homes for Workers -- VIII - The First of May in Petrograd -- IX - Industrial Militarization -- X - The British Labour Mission -- XI - A Visit from the Ukraina -- XII - Beneath the Surface -- XIII - Joining the Museum of the Revolution -- XIV - Petropavlovsk and Schlüsselburg -- XV - The Trade Unions -- XVI - Maria Spiridonova -- XVII - Another Visit to Peter Kropotkin -- XVIII - En Route -- XIX - In Kharkov -- XX - Poltava -- XXI - Kiev -- XXII - Odessa -- XXIII - Returning to Moscow -- XXIV - Back in Petrograd -- XXV - Archangel and Return -- XXVI - Death and Funeral of Peter Kropotkin -- XXVII - Kronstadt -- XXVIII - Persecution of Anarchists -- XXIX - Travelling Salesmen of the Revolution -- XXX - Education and Culture -- XXXI - Exploiting the Famine -- XXXII - The Socialist Republic Resorts to Deportation -- XXXIII - Afterword -- THE RUSSIAN TRAGEDY -- INTRODUCTION -- FOREWORD -- THE RUSSIAN TRAGEDY -- THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY -- THE KRONSTADT REBELLION -- THE KRONSTADT UPRISING -- INTRODUCTION BY MURRAY BOOKCHIN -- PREFACE TO SOLIDARITY



EDITION -- INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH EDITION -- THE KRONSTADT EVENTS -- WHAT THEY SAID AT THE TIME -- KRONSTADT: LAST UPSURGE OF THE SOVIETS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WHEN THE ICE MELTS by Dan Georgakas -- POSTSCRIPT 1, 1917 ON THE BRAIN by Thomas Jeffrey Miley -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- POSTSCRIPT 2, 1917 AND AFTER by Dimitrios Roussopoulos -- EMMA GOLDMAN, Biographical Sketch -- ALEXANDER BERKMAN, Biographical Sketch -- IDA METT, Biographical Sketch.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792341103321

Autore

Germana Michael <1971->

Titolo

Standards of value [[electronic resource] ] : money, race, and literature in America / / by Michael Germana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2009

ISBN

1-58729-893-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

813/.009/355

Soggetti

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Money in literature

Race in literature

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-184) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Jacksonian abolitionism: money, minstrelsy, and "Uncle Tom's cabin" -- Real change: George Washington Cable's "The grandissimes" and the crime of '73 -- The gold standard of the passing novel: exploring the limits of strategic essentialism -- Black is-- an' Black ain't: "Invisible man" and the fiat of race.

Sommario/riassunto

In Standards of Value, Michael Germana reveals how tectonic shifts in U.S. monetary policy-from the Coinage Act of 1834 to the abolition of the domestic gold standard in 1933-34,correspond to strategic changes by American writers who renegotiated the value of racial difference. Populating the pages of this bold and innovative study are authors as varied as Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Washington Cable,



Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Ralph Ellison, all of whom drew analogies between the form Americans thought the nation's money should take and t