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In War's Dark Shadow
In the quarter century before World War I, change came to Russia at a dizzying pace. The industrial revolution, the building of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the disastrous …
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Theorizing Myth
In "Theorizing Myth", Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by …
![Myth, Cosmos, and Society](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/12915240/myth-cosmos-and-society.jpg)
Myth, Cosmos, and Society
![Between History and Myth](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/11978197/between-history-and-myth.jpg)
Between History and Myth
All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft-repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive …
![Death, War, and Sacrifice](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/1005518/death-war-and-sacrifice.jpg)
Death, War, and Sacrifice
One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized …
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The Romanovs
For three centuries--beginning with the accession of Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov in 1613--the Romanov Dynasty ruled Russia. Its reign ended with the execution of Nicholas II and …
![Secrets, Lies, and Consequences](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/68487106/secrets-lies-and-consequences.jpg)
Secrets, Lies, and Consequences
The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect themIn early 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic …
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Apples and Oranges
Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, …
![Discourse and the Construction of Society](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/20085559/discourse-and-the-construction-of-society.jpg)
Discourse and the Construction of Society
In this bold theoretical work, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together--and how, in times of crisis, they can be …
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The Great Reforms
The Great Reforms of the 1860s marked the broadest attempt at social and economic renovation to occur in Russia between the death of Peter the Great in 1725 and the Revolution of …
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The Conquest of a Continent
"In The Conquest of a Continent, the historian W. Bruce Lincoln details Siberia's role in Russian history, one remarkably similar to that of the frontier in the development of the …
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Sunlight at Midnight
For Russians, St.Petersburg has embodied power, heroism and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic …