Laurie Manchester

World History

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Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
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Laurie Manchester received her Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. Her primary areas of research interest are the cultural, social and intellectual history of Russia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia (Harriman Institute Series, Northern Illinois University Press, 2008), which won the 2009 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. She has published articles in The Journal of Modern History, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Russian History and Slavic Review. Recently Professor Manchester has become interested in employing interracial experiences, travel narratives, return migration and diaspora communities to study the formation of national identities. She is currently working on two books entitled, The Real Russians Return: Repatrates from China and The Colonial World through Russian Eyes. The second focuses on representations of Russians who visited, worked in, migrated, or fled to China, Africa and Latin America from the 1861 to 1941.

Holy Fathers, Secular Sons

December 25, 2012

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5108218-holy-fathers-secular-sons Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia (Studies…

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