British Humanitarian Activity in Russia, 1890-1923

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kelly, Luke (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Great Britain-History.; Social history.; Europe-History-1492-.; Religion-History.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Social History.; History of Modern Europe.; History of Religion.

This 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. 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.