Tag: Russia

  • African American Interest & Experiences in Russia: A Brief History Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe 2015-10-28 Robert Fikes, Jr., Reference Librarian San Diego State University Robert Fikes, Jr., Librarian at San Diego State University, recounts the history of the African American presence in Russia from the 19th century, noting that African Americans have had a…

  • Three Very Rare Generations The New York Times 1992-12-13 Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University Soul To Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992. By Yelena Khanga with Susan Jacoby. Illustrated. 318 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $22.95. AMONG its other consequences, the demise of the Soviet Union has…

  • Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America [Patricia Cleary Review] William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, Volume 69, Number 3, July 2012 pages 665-667 DOI: 10.5309/willmaryquar.69.3.0665 Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America. By Gwenn A. Miller. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010. 242 pages. Patricia Cleary, Professor of History California…

  • Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America Cornell University Press 2010-08-05 248 pages 7 Illustrations 6.1 x 9.3 in ISBN-10: 0801446422; ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4642-9 Gwenn A. Miller, Assistant Professor of History College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia’s only overseas…

  • Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992 W. W. Norton & Company 1994 318 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0393034046; ISBN-13: 978-0393034042 Paperback ISBN: ISBN 978-0-393-31155-6 Yelena Khanga (with Susan Jacoby) As the Soviet Union crumbled in early 1991, a young Russian woman in search of her past found her way to Mississippi, to the…

  • The Russian Creoles of Alaska as a Marginal Group Social Forces Volume 22, Number 2 (December 1943) pages 204-208 Margaret Mary Wood Russell Sage College The interest in Alaska which has been aroused by its strategic importance in the present world-war conflict is bringing to the fore as worthy of attention many problems of this…

  • The Born Identity Arise Magazine Issue 12 2011-09-28 Sarah Bentley Photography by Liz Johnson-Artur Thirty-six year-old Egor Belov has just told a childhood anecdote about scrubbing his face until it drew blood. He’d been playing in the snow and wanted pink cheeks like his friends. His dark complexion was never going to turn his desired…