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Red Nations offers an illuminating and informative overview of how the non-Russian republics of the Soviet Union experienced communist rule. It surveys the series of historical events that contributed to the break-up of the Soviet Union and evaluates their continuing resonance across post-soviet states today. Drawing from the latest research, Professor Smith offers comprehensive coverage of the revolutionary years, the early Soviet policies of developing nations, Stalin's purges and deportations of small nationalities, and the rise of independence movements. Through a single, unified narrative, this book illustrates how, in the post-Stalin period, many of the features of the modern nation state emerged. Both scholars and students will find this an indispensable contribution to the history of the dissolution of the USSR, the reconstruction of post-Soviet society, and its impact on non-Russian citizens from the years of the Russian Revolution through to the present day.

NATIONALISM--USSR --- NATIONALISM--FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS --- Federal government --- Nationalism --- Minorities --- Former Soviet republics --- Republics --- History. --- History --- Government policy --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- CIS countries --- Commonwealth of Independent States countries --- Ex-Soviet republics --- Ex-Soviet states --- Former Soviet states --- New Independent States (Former Soviet republics) --- Newly Independent States (Former Soviet republics) --- NIS (Former Soviet republics)

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Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. The book suggests that civilisational analysis offers an alternative approach to understanding globalisation, one that focuses on the dense engagement of societies, cultures, empires and civilisations in human history. Building on Castoriadis’s theory of social imaginaries, it argues that civilisations are best understood as the products of routine contacts and connections carried out by anonymous actors over the course of long periods of time. It illustrates this argument through case studies of modern Japan, the Pacific and post-Conquest Latin America (including the revival of indigenous civilisations), exploring discourses of civilisation outside the West within the context of growing Western imperial power.

Civilization --- Comparative civilization. --- Intercultural communication. --- Cultural pluralism. --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Civilization, Comparative --- Philosophy and civilization --- Philosophy. --- Anthropological aspects

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State, The --- History. --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Civilization. --- Colonies --- State --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997

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Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. The book suggests that civilisational analysis offers an alternative approach to understanding globalisation, one that focuses on the dense engagement of societies, cultures, empires and civilisations in human history. Building on Castoriadis’s theory of social imaginaries, it argues that civilisations are best understood as the products of routine contacts and connections carried out by anonymous actors over the course of long periods of time. It illustrates this argument through case studies of modern Japan, the Pacific and post-Conquest Latin America (including the revival of indigenous civilisations), exploring discourses of civilisation outside the West within the context of growing Western imperial power.

Civilization --- Comparative civilization. --- Intercultural communication. --- Cultural pluralism. --- Philosophy. --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Civilization, Comparative --- Philosophy and civilization --- Anthropological aspects --- indigenous civilisations --- civilisations --- power --- imaginaries --- cornelius castoriadis --- civilisational analysis

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Planten worden al duizenden jaren over de hele wereld voor geneesmiddelen gebruikt. Zo'n kwart van alle huidige geneesmiddelen bevat plantaardige stoffen en ongeveer de helft hiervan is van oorsprong afkomstig uit de rijke habitat van de regenwouden. Lange tijd werd de kennis van regenwoudbewoners over de planten door vele wetenschappers waardeloos gevonden. Nu wordt steeds duidelijker dat een groot deel van de geneeskunde die ze toepassen op gegronde wetenschap is gebaseerd. Veel botanici gaan daarom nu praten met de plaatselijke genezers. Met verklarende woordenlijst

Social problems --- Sociology of health --- Didactics of medicine --- Asia --- Africa --- America