LEADER 04558nam 22006855 450 001 9910299804903321 005 20230810192340.0 010 $a9783319651903 010 $a3319651900 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-65190-3 035 $a(CKB)4340000000223330 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-65190-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5163190 035 $a(Perlego)3494771 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000223330 100 $a20171127d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBritish Humanitarian Activity in Russia, 1890-1923 /$fby Luke Kelly 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (X, 220 p. 9 illus.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9783319651897 311 08$a3319651897 327 $a1. Introduction: British Humanitarian Activity and Russia, c. 1890-1923 -- 2. Humanitarian traditions and Russia's problems -- 3. Britain and the Russian Famine, 1891-2 -- 4. Speaking up for Religious Freedom in Russia: Jewish and Christian humanitarianism -- 5. Humanitarian sympathy and national liberation -- 6. Britain and the Russian Famine, 1921-3 -- 7. Conclusion -- Index. 330 $aThis study analyses the humanitarian facets of the Anglo-Russian relationship, something yet to be addressed in existing scholarship in a systematic way. It focuses on the humanitarian aid offered between the flowering of Russophilia in the 1880s up until Stalin's closing of the country in the mid-1920s, and seeks to show why a humanitarian discourse emerged from the Anglo-Russian relationship. A variety of activists offered aid or sympathy. This book seeks to characterise the nature of their engagement with Russia's problems, and in so doing to understand the links between humanitarianism and these non-humanitarian groups and viewpoints, thereby contributing to debates on the nature of humanitarianism by arguing against the view that it derives from a fairly neutral sympathy applied to a variety of settings. Instead, this study posits that humanitarianism is intimately connected to the ideals and interests of those who undertake it. In this case, a focus on the roles of Christian, Jewish and liberal interests in deploying humanitarian solutions shows how humanitarianism developed 'from below'. It also contextualises this humanitarian interest 'from above' in the parameters of the Anglo-Russian relationship, seeing humanitarianism in relation to the broader political frameworks and ideologies to which it contributed. This book analyses the efforts of churches, pressure groups, charities, politicians and journalists to promote religious and political liberty and to relieve the victims of famines in late-tsarist and early communist Russia. Luke Kelly seeks to show why a humanitarian discourse emerged from the Anglo-Russian relationship, and assesses the nature of these activists' engagement with Russia's problems. By focusing on the roles of Christian, Jewish and liberal interests in deploying humanitarian solutions, Kelly shows how humanitarianism developed 'from below', while also examining the cause of these interests 'from above', through cultural exchanges and diplomacy. . 606 $aRussia$xHistory 606 $aEurope, Eastern$xHistory 606 $aSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aSocial history 606 $aEurope$xHistory$x1492- 606 $aReligion$xHistory 606 $aRussian, Soviet, and East European History 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland 606 $aSocial History 606 $aHistory of Modern Europe 606 $aHistory of Religion 615 0$aRussia$xHistory. 615 0$aEurope, Eastern$xHistory. 615 0$aSoviet Union$xHistory. 615 0$aGreat Britain$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory$x1492-. 615 0$aReligion$xHistory. 615 14$aRussian, Soviet, and East European History. 615 24$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 615 24$aSocial History. 615 24$aHistory of Modern Europe. 615 24$aHistory of Religion. 676 $a947 700 $aKelly$b Luke$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01064278 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910299804903321 996 $aBritish Humanitarian Activity in Russia, 1890-1923$92537267 997 $aUNINA