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Understanding Russia Better Through Her History: Sevastopol, an Enduring Geostrategic Centre of Gravity
UNDERSTANDING RUSSIA BETTER THROUGH HER HISTORY: SEVASTOPOL, AN ENDURING GEOSTRATEGIC CENTRE OF GRAVITY Recent events in Crimea, Eastern Ukraine and Syria have aerospace industries, made Sevastopol a closed city during brought Russia’s increasingly assertive foreign policy and the Cold War. Thereafter, despite being under Ukrainian burgeoning military power into sharp relief. Such shows of jurisdiction until March 2014, it remained very much a force surprised those in the West who thought that a new, Russian city, in which the Russian national flag always flew pacific and friendly Russia would emerge from the former higher than the Ukrainian. Soviet Union. That has never been Russia’s way as a major Furthermore, the Russian world power. This monograph argues that Vladimir Putin’s Navy continued to control the “” Russia has done no more than act in an historically consistent port leased from the Ukraine, Sevastopol’s and largely predictable manner. Specifically, it seeks to including its navigation systems. population, explain why possession of Sevastopol – the home of the Sevastopol’s population, Black Sea Fleet for more than 200 years – provides Russia containing many military containing many with considerable geostrategic advantage, one that is being retirees and their dependants, military retirees and exploited today in support of her current operations in Syria. remained fiercely loyal to Russia their dependants, and never accepted Ukrainian Sevastopol, and more particularly its ancient predecessor, rule – which they judged as a remained fiercely the former Greek city of Chersonesos, has a highly-symbolic historical accident at best, or, at loyal to Russia and place in Russia’s history and sense of nationhood. -
Odessa : Genius and Death in a City of Dreams Pdf, Epub, Ebook
ODESSA : GENIUS AND DEATH IN A CITY OF DREAMS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Charles King | 336 pages | 20 May 2011 | WW Norton & Co | 9780393070842 | English | New York, United States Odessa : Genius and Death in a City of Dreams PDF Book Other Popular Editions of the Same Title. Great introduction to a city with a very unique history. With more tournament opportunities, which make it possible to earn a living, the number and level of women in chess has really risen in the last twenty years. A diverse mix of nationalities: Armenian, Greek, Turkish, Jewish, Italian and, of course, Russian that mostly lived together in toleration. It built itself as a city of many nationalities and religions and became a place for cultures to merge and clash. Chapter Thirteen War and Nonsense. He thinks Putin is a wise leader, and that Ukraine could use someone like him; he once spent hours explaining to me that Stalin had ingeniously trapped Hitler into invading Russia. And I think I was always fascinated by the idea that people who live as far away as Europe or even in the Soviet Union must be real people, need not have two heads. All there. Marissa's Romance Recommendations! Skip to main content. But then of course the thing being proclaimed in Britain, France, US, or elsewhere is also increasingly 19th century. Convert currency. Italian merchants, Greek freedom fighters, and Turkish seamen; a Russian empress and her favorite soldier-bureaucrats; Jewish tavern keepers, traders, and journalists-these and many others seeking fortune and adventure rubbed shoulders in Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea. -
The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe
The Reception of I THE RECEPTION OF ISAAC NEWTON IN EUROPE LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES, REGIONS AND COUNTRIES: THE GEOGRAPHY OF NEWTONIANISM Edited by Helmut Pulte and Scott Mandelbrote BLOOMSBURY ACADEM I C LO:-IDON • NEW YORK• OXt"ORD • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Pie 50 Bedford Square, London, WC 1B 3DP. UK 1385 Broadway, NewYork, NY 10018, USA BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Pie First published in Great Britain 2019 Reprinted in 2019 Copyright© Helmut Pulte, Scott Mandelbrote and Contributors, 2019 Helmut Pulte, Scott Mandelbrote and Contributors have asserted their rights under the Copyright. Designs and Pat~nts Act, 1988, to be identified as Authors of this work. For legal purposes the Acknowledgements on pp. xv, 199 constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover design: Eleanor Rose All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Pie does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. -
Appropriating Scientific Ideas During the Eighteenth Century Kostas Gavroglu
The centre from the periphery: appropriating scientific ideas during the eighteenth century Kostas Gavroglu To cite this version: Kostas Gavroglu. The centre from the periphery: appropriating scientific ideas during the eighteenth century. Revue de la Maison Française d’Oxford, Maison Française d’Oxford, 2003, Centre and pe- riphery revisited. The structures of European science, 1750-1914, 1 (2), pp.11-32. hal-01896022 HAL Id: hal-01896022 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01896022 Submitted on 19 Oct 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. THE CENTRE FROM THE PERIPHERY: APPROPRIATING SCIENTIFIC IDEAS DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Kostas Gavroglu eception or transmission studies are not something new. There have been studies discussing the diffusion of the R new ideas about nature in England, Scotland, France, the Low Countries and Germany during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Nevertheless, respective works in languages other than the local languages for the Balkans, the Ottoman Empire, the Central European countries, the Baltic countries, Portugal, but also Spain have been very few and written mostly from a philological point of view.1 The lack of studies of any subject does not, of course, constitute by itself a legitimate reason for starting to work on it. -
Eugene Miakinkov
Russian Military Culture during the Reigns of Catherine II and Paul I, 1762-1801 by Eugene Miakinkov A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History Department of History and Classics University of Alberta ©Eugene Miakinkov, 2015 Abstract This study explores the shape and development of military culture during the reign of Catherine II. Next to the institutions of the autocracy and the Orthodox Church, the military occupied the most important position in imperial Russia, especially in the eighteenth century. Rather than analyzing the military as an institution or a fighting force, this dissertation uses the tools of cultural history to explore its attitudes, values, aspirations, tensions, and beliefs. Patronage and education served to introduce a generation of young nobles to the world of the military culture, and expose it to its values of respect, hierarchy, subordination, but also the importance of professional knowledge. Merit is a crucial component in any military, and Catherine’s military culture had to resolve the tensions between the idea of meritocracy and seniority. All of the above ideas and dilemmas were expressed in a number of military texts that began to appear during Catherine’s reign. It was during that time that the military culture acquired the cultural, political, and intellectual space to develop – a space I label the “military public sphere”. This development was most clearly evident in the publication, by Russian authors, of a range of military literature for the first time in this era. The military culture was also reflected in the symbolic means used by the senior commanders to convey and reinforce its values in the army. -
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Entangled Histories of the Balkans Balkan Studies Library Editor-in-Chief Zoran Milutinović, University College London Editorial Board Gordon N. Bardos, Columbia University Alex Drace-Francis, University of Amsterdam Jasna Dragović-Soso, Goldsmiths, University of London Christian Voss, Humboldt University, Berlin Advisory Board Marie-Janine Calic, University of Munich Lenard J. Cohen, Simon Fraser University Radmila Gorup, Columbia University Robert M. Hayden, University of Pittsburgh Robert Hodel, Hamburg University Anna Krasteva, New Bulgarian University Galin Tihanov, Queen Mary, University of London Maria Todorova, University of Illinois Andrew Wachtel, Northwestern University VOLUME 9 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bsl Entangled Histories of the Balkans Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies Edited by Roumen Daskalov and Tchavdar Marinov LEIDEN • BOSTON 2013 Cover Illustration: Top left: Krste Misirkov (1874–1926), philologist and publicist, founder of Macedo- nian national ideology and the Macedonian standard language. Photographer unknown. Top right: Rigas Feraios (1757–1798), Greek political thinker and revolutionary, ideologist of the Greek Enlightenment. Portrait by Andreas Kriezis (1816–1880), Benaki Museum, Athens. Bottom left: Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864), philologist, ethnographer and linguist, reformer of the Serbian language and founder of Serbo-Croatian. 1865, lithography by Josef Kriehuber. Bottom right: Şemseddin Sami Frashëri (1850–1904), Albanian writer and scholar, ideologist of Albanian and of modern Turkish nationalism, with his wife Emine. Photo around 1900, photo- grapher unknown. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Entangled histories of the Balkans / edited by Roumen Daskalov and Tchavdar Marinov. pages cm — (Balkan studies library ; Volume 9) Includes bibliographical references and index. -
Absolute Monarchy in Russia
wh07_te_ch04_s05_MOD_s.fm Page 168 Monday, March 5, 2007 12:28WH07MOD_se_CH04_S05_s.fm PM Page 168 Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:45 PM The palace (left) of Catherine the Great (far left) reflects both European and traditional Russian architectural styles. Step-by-Step SECTION Instruction 5 WITNESS HISTORY AUDIO A Foreign Princess Takes the Throne Objectives For twenty years, the German princess Catherine lived As you teach this section, keep students at the Russian court, enduring an unhappy marriage to focused on the following objectives to help the Russian heir apparent, who was widely considered them answer the Section Focus Question to be insane. She filled her time reading, studying and master core content. French philosophy, building alliances behind the scenes, and biding her time. When her husband ■ Explain how Peter the Great tried to became emperor in 1762, she called on her allies to make Russia into a modern state. act. Within a few months he had been deposed and ■ Identify the steps Peter took to expand Catherine proclaimed empress of Russia. Like Peter the Russia’s borders. Great before her, Catherine would rule with intelligence, a firm hand, and a mind set on ■ Describe how Catherine the Great modernization. strengthened Russia. Focus Question How did Peter the Great and Catherine the Great strengthen Russia and expand its territory? Absolute Monarchy in Russia Prepare to Read In the early 1600s, Russia was still a medieval state, untouched by Objectives the Renaissance or Reformation and largely isolated from Western Build Background Knowledge L3 • Explain how Peter the Great tried to make Russia into a modern state. -
SOCIETAS OECUMENICA CONSULTATION 2018 WEEK SCHEDULE Thursday, 23 August 14:00 Registration Open
SOCIETAS OECUMENICA CONSULTATION 2018 WEEK SCHEDULE Thursday, 23 August 14:00 Registration Open 16:00-16:30 Coffee 17:00-17:30 Opening Chapel Service Opening Plenary 1 Prof. Dr. Ulrike Link- Wiezcorek, University of Oldenburg (President of Societas Oecumenica) 18:00- 19:00 Nationalism and Migration as Challenges for Ecumenical Theology Chair: Dr. Jelle Creemers (Secretary of Societas Oecumenica) 19:00-21:00 Reception & Dinner Friday, 24th August 07:30- 08:30 Breakfast 08:30-09:00 Morning Devotion Plenary Session 2 Dr. Niko Huttunen, University of Helsinki 09:00-10:30 Eschatological Prophet as Political Realist: Paul, State, and Nations Response: Prof. Dr. Ivana Noble, Charles University Prague Chair: Dr. Minna Hietamäki 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break Paper session 1: ROOM A 1. Christof Picker- Protestantismus und Nationalismus in der Pfalz 2. Stanley Jayakumar- “Transcending all Barriers” – Reflections on Church and Migration in the light of The Church: Towards a Common Vision 3. Christian Henkel- Tour of Photo Exhibition ROOM B 1. Dan Hautakoski- The Russian Orthodox Presence in the Holy Land at the Centennial of the Martyrdom of St. Elizabeth 11:00-12:30 2. Hanne Lamparter- The history of ecumenical worship – A journey of crossing borders? 3. Heidi Zitting- From bare superstition towards an important sign - Influence of the ecumenical movement on concept of apostolic succession in the Lutheran Finland ROOM C 1. Vera La Mela-Brothers (and Sisters) Without Borders 2. Joseph Daniel- Indian Nationalism and the Politics of Othering- A threat to Ecumenism and inter-religiosity 3. Jeremy Worthen- ‘Towards the Centenary of the 1920 Lambeth Appeal to All Christian People: the unity of the church and the strife of nations’ 12:30-13:30 Lunch Visit Heidelberg by bus 14:00-16:00 Plenary Session 3 Prof. -
Crimea: the Bad Conscience of Russia 4
Crimea: the Bad Conscience of Russia 4. October 2018 by Adam Balcer You who wronged a simple man Bursting into laughter at the crime, And kept a pack of fools around you To mix good and evil, to blur the line, Though everyone bowed down before you, Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way, Striking gold medals in your honour, Glad to have survived another day, Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date. (Czesław Miłosz, You who wronged) translated by Richard Lourie The occupation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 created one of the most authoritarian quasi- regimes in the world. Unfortunately, four years after the annexation, massive violations of human rights capture almost exclusively the interest of watchdogs. However, the persecution of the Crimean Tatar community will constitute in years to come the most blatant example of Putin’s hypocrisy and the ‘Potemkin’1 character of his politics of memory and identity. A few months ago, Russia hosted the World Cup. Hundred million people watched this most popular sport event on the globe. Russia was visited by many European politicians from countries whose teams took part in the tournament, including Emanuel Macron the president of World Cup winner France. One month before the beginning of the World Cup, Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker from Crimea imprisoned by Russians in 2014, began a hunger strike. He demanded that Putin frees the Ukrainian prisoners of conscience held in Russia. Today Sentsov is on the verge of death, while Putin ruthlessly rejects international appeals to release him. -
Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment: in Search of a European Identity
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 312 Theodore Arabatzis Jürgen Renn Ana Simões Editors Relocating the History of Science Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science VOLUME 312 Editors Alisa Bokulich, Boston University Robert S. Cohen, Boston University Ju¨rgen Renn, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Kostas Gavroglu, University of Athens Managing editor Lindy Divarci, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Editorial board Theodore Arabatzis, University of Athens Heather E. Douglas, University of Waterloo Jean Gayon, Universite´ Paris 1 Thomas F. Glick, Boston University Hubert Goenner, University of Goettingen John Heilbron, University of California, Berkeley Diana Kormos-Buchwald, California Institute of Technology Christoph Lehner, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Peter MCLaughlin, Universita¨t Heidelberg Agustı´ Nieto-Galan, Universitat Auto¨noma de Barcelona Nuccio Ordine, Universita´ della Calabria Ana Simo˜es, Universidade de Lisboa John J. Stachel, Boston University Sylvan S. Schweber, Harvard University Baichun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science [email protected] More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/5710 [email protected] Theodore Arabatzis • Ju¨rgen Renn • Ana Simo˜es Editors Relocating the History of Science Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu [email protected] Editors Theodore Arabatzis Ju¨rgen Renn Department of History Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Philosophy of Science -
Χρονολόγηση Γεωγραφικός Εντοπισμός Greek Enlightenment In
IΔΡΥΜA ΜΕΙΖΟΝΟΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ Συγγραφή : Bruess Gregory (15/1/2008) Για παραπομπή : Bruess Gregory , "Greek enlightenment in South Russia", 2008, Εγκυκλοπαίδεια Μείζονος Ελληνισμού, Μ. Ασία URL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=11096> Greek enlightenment in South Russia Περίληψη : Greek enlightenment in Southern Russia was a significant part of the overall enlightenment movement in the Hellenic world of the 18th - early 19th century. Its most important members were the prelates Evgenios Voulgaris and Nikiforos Theotokis, who furthemore were proponents of a much more tolerant attitude vis-a-vis the religious sect of the Old Believers. Odessa was a thriving center of the Greek Enlightenment in Russia. A famous Gymnassium was founded there and many prominent Greek lay intelectuals, such as Konstantinos Vardalachos and Georgios Gennadios taught and edited books. Χρονολόγηση Mid 18th- early 19th century Γεωγραφικός εντοπισμός South Russia, Odessa, Taganrog, Poltava 1. Introduction The Greek Enlightenment occurred in southern Russia at the end of the eighteenth century because Greece and Russia shared a common Byzantine Orthodox heritage, Catherine II was determined to enact “enlightened”reforms, and Russian imperial ambitions in the Black Sea littoral and Greek desires for national emancipation from the Ottoman Empire converged. Evgenios Voulgaris and Nikiforos Theotokis, two Greek prelates in the service of Catherine and the Russian Orthodox Church, were the essence of the Greek Enlightenment in southern Russia. Their accomplishments and successes as clerics, administrators, translators of Western philosophical and scientific works, proponents and teachers of natural philosophy, defenders of free inquiry, scholars, and advocates for Greeks in Russia and the Ottoman territoriy epitomized the Greek Enlightenment. -
ENG-Karla-Web-Extra-Low.Pdf
231 CULTURE AND WETLANDS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Using cultural values for wetland restoration 2 CULTURE AND WETLANDS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Using cultural values for wetland restoration Lake Karla walking guide Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos Med-INA, Athens 2014 3 Edited by Stefanos Dodouras, Irini Lyratzaki and Thymio Papayannis Contributors: Charalampos Alexandrou, Chairman of Kerasia Cultural Association Maria Chamoglou, Ichthyologist, Managing Authority of the Eco-Development Area of Karla-Mavrovouni-Kefalovryso-Velestino Antonia Chasioti, Chairwoman of the Local Council of Kerasia Stefanos Dodouras, Sustainability Consultant PhD, Med-INA Andromachi Economou, Senior Researcher, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens Vana Georgala, Architect-Planner, Municipality of Rigas Feraios Ifigeneia Kagkalou, Dr of Biology, Polytechnic School, Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace Vasilis Kanakoudis, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly Thanos Kastritis, Conservation Manager, Hellenic Ornithological Society Irini Lyratzaki, Anthropologist, Med-INA Maria Magaliou-Pallikari, Forester, Municipality of Rigas Feraios Sofia Margoni, Geomorphologist PhD, School of Engineering, University of Thessaly Antikleia Moudrea-Agrafioti, Archaeologist, Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly Triantafyllos Papaioannou, Chairman of the Local Council of Kanalia Aikaterini Polymerou-Kamilaki, Director of the Hellenic Folklore Research