British Humanitarian Activity in Russia, 1890-1923

Luke Kelly (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 220 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-65189-7 (ISBN)

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This book analyses the efforts of British civil society to help a Russia seen to be struggling between 1890 and the 1920s. Luke Kelly seeks to show why churches, pressure groups, charities, politicians and journalists came to promote religious and political liberty and to relieve the victims of famines in late-tsarist and early communist Russia. By focusing on the roles of Christian, Jewish and liberal interests in deploying humanitarian solutions, Kelly shows how humanitarianism developed 'from below', while also examining the growth of a broader humanitarian discourse in the context of the Anglo-Russian relationship.

Luke Kelly is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester, UK.

1. Introduction: British Humanitarian Activity and Russia, c. 1890-1923.- 2. Humanitarian traditions and Russia's problems.- 3. Britain and the Russian Famine, 1891-2.- 4. Speaking up for Religious Freedom in Russia: Jewish and Christian humanitarianism.- 5. Humanitarian sympathy and national liberation.- 6. Britain and the Russian Famine, 1921-3.- 7. Conclusion.- Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.01.2018
Zusatzinfo	X, 220 p. 9 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	528 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Schlagworte	Altruism • Anglo-Russian relations • European History • First World War • Great War • Historiography • History • History of Britain and Ireland • history of modern europe • History of Religion • History of specific lands • philanthropy • Russian, Soviet, and East European History • Social & Cultural History • Social & cultural history • Social History
ISBN-10	3-319-65189-7 / 3319651897
ISBN-13	978-3-319-65189-7 / 9783319651897
Zustand	Neuware