Richard Stites: 4 books
The Four Horsemen
Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia; and national independence to the Greeks. The men who launched these exploits from Andalusia to the snowy fields...
Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia
The Pleasure and the Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in society’s value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a groundbreaking history of visual and performing arts in the last decades of serfdom. Provincial...
Revolutionary Dreams
Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1991
The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range of social experiments which found expression, in the first decade of the Russian revolution, in festival, symbol, science fiction, city planning, and...
Imitations of Life
Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
Imitations of Life views Russian melodrama from the eighteenth century to today as an unexpectedly hospitable forum for considering social issues. The contributors follow the evolution of the genre through a variety of cultural practices and changing political scenarios. They argue that Russian audiences...