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Elite (Social sciences) --- History --- Aristocracy --- Russia --- Officials and employees --- Politics and government --- 17th century --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- 1613-1689 --- 1684-1801 --- Elite (Social sciences) - Russia - History - 17th century. --- Aristocracy - Russia - History - 17th century. --- Russia - Officials and employees - History - 17th century. --- Russia - Politics and government - 1613-1689. --- Russia - Politics and government - 1689-1801. --- Russie --- Histoire --- 17e siecle
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A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet - on human history in the long term. New media are 'pulled' into widespread use by broad historical trends and these media, once in widespread use, 'push' social institutions and beliefs in predictable directions. This view allows us to see for the first time what is truly new about the Internet, what is not, and where it is taking us.
Social change --- Mass communications --- History --- spraakvermogen --- spraaktechnologie --- sociale media --- internet --- sociale geschiedenis --- communicatiewetenschappen --- sociale bewegingen --- sociale beïnvloeding --- digitale technieken --- Communication --- Digital media --- Social aspects. --- 007 --- audiovisuele media --- boekdrukkunst --- boeken --- communicatie --- geschiedenis --- linguïstiek --- media --- nieuwe media --- schrift --- taal --- taalkunde --- Communication and culture --- Social aspects --- Arts and Humanities
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Many Americans and Europeans have for centuries viewed Russia as a despotic country in which people are inclined to accept suffering and oppression. What are the origins of this stereotype of Russia as a society fundamentally apart from nations in the West, and how accurate is it? In the first book devoted to answering these questions, Marshall T. Poe traces the roots of today's perception of Russia and its people to the eyewitness descriptions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European travelers. His fascinating account-the most complete review of early modern European writings about Russia ever undertaken-explores how the image of "Russian tyranny" took hold in the popular imagination and eventually became the basis for the notion of "Oriental Despotism" first set forth by Montesquieu. Poe, the preeminent scholar of these valuable primary sources, carefully assesses their reliability. He argues convincingly that although the foreigners exaggerated the degree of Russian "slavery," they accurately described their encounters and correctly concluded that the political culture of Muscovite autocracy was unlike that of European kingship. With his findings, Poe challenges the notion that all Europeans projected their own fantasies onto Russia. Instead, his evidence suggests that many early travelers produced, in essence, reliable ethnographies, not works of exotic "Orientalism."
Public opinion --- Europe --- Russia --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Relations --- Foreign public opinion, European. --- Russie --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russland --- Ṛusastan --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian Empire --- Rosja --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920)
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Russia --- Description and travel --- Bibliography. --- Foreign public opinion --- Foreign relations --- Bibliography
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Sticky Marketing provides a new set of rules for effective communications in a world transformed by new technology. It introduces a new model of customer engagement and asks "not what your marketing can do for you, but what your marketing can do for your customer." Companies have to move away from the old marketing system of shouting messages at people to attracting them by providing value around their product or service - in other words by becoming 'sticky' or attractive. Grant Leboff argues that it is not 'return on investment' that matters but 'return on engagement,' not your unique sales point (or USP), but your customer engagement point (your CEP), that will make the difference in today's cluttered marketplace. Sticky Marketing proves that marketing should be about value creation if businesses want to truly engage with their customers - to stop shouting and start a conversation. Only by providing value can businesses win the battle for customer attention.
Social change --- Mass communications --- History --- spraakvermogen --- spraaktechnologie --- sociale media --- internet --- sociale geschiedenis --- communicatiewetenschappen --- sociale bewegingen --- sociale beïnvloeding --- digitale technieken
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Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union's demise and Russia's ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. In this provocative and elegantly written short history of Russia, Marshall Poe takes us well beyond the Soviet haze deep into the nation's fascinating--not at all inevitable, and in key respects remarkably successful--past. Tracing Russia's course from its beginnings to the present day, Poe shows that Russia was the only non-Western power to defend itself against Western imperialism for centuries. It did so by building a powerful state that molded society to its military needs. Thus arose the only non-Western path to modern society--a unique path neither "European" nor "Asian" but, most aptly, "Russian." From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Russia prevailed despite unparalleled onslaughts by powerful Western armies. However, while Europe nurtured limited government, capitalism, and scientific and cultural revolution, early Russian society cultivated autocracy and command economics. Both Europe and Russia eventually created modern infrastructures, but the European model proved more productive and powerful. The post-World War I communist era can be seen as a natural continuation of Russia's autocratic past that, despite its tragic turns, kept Russia globally competitive for decades. The Russian moment in world history thus began with its first confrontations with Europe in the fifteenth century, and ended in 1991 with the Soviet collapse. Written with verve and great insight, The Russian Moment in World History will be widely read and vigorously debated by those who seek a clear and unequivocal understanding of the complex history that has made Russia what it is today.
Russia --- Soviet Union --- Russia (Federation) --- History. --- History --- Philosophy.
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Russia --- History --- 1613-1689 --- Civilization --- 17th century --- Politics and government
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This work covers the interaction of the Russian military and society in the early modern and modern period. It covers the myriad political, economic and cultural currents that shaped the Russian armed forces from their beginnings in Muscovite times to the end of World War I.
War and civilization --- Civilization and war --- Civilization --- Russia --- History, Military.
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Russia --- Politics and government --- History --- Civilization --- Soviet Union --- Russie --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russland --- Ṛusastan --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian Empire --- Rosja --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920)
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