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  • The Most Dangerous Art

    Poetry, Politics, and Autobiography after the Russian Revolution

    de Donald Loewen ...
    At a time in Russia's history when poets could be (and sometimes were) killed for a poem, the autobiographies of three prominent poets, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Boris Pasternak, became a courageous defense of poetry. The Most Dangerous Art shows how these autobiographies trace an emotional trajectory that corresponds to the intensity of the social and state pressures that threatened ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

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  • Best Russian Short Stories

    Captivating Tales from Russian Literary Tradition

    de Various ...
    "Best Russian Short Stories" is a remarkable anthology that gathers some of the most poignant narratives from the rich tradition of Russian literature. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, it showcases the unique thematic depth and stylistic diversity of Russian short fiction. Featuring masterful works by luminaries such as Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, and Ivan Turgenev, this collection immerses ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Writer at War

    A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945

    de Vasily Grossman ...
    When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing some of the most savage fighting of the war, Grossman saw ... Leer más

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  • What Is to Be Done?

    de Nikolai Chernyshevsky ...
    Traducido por Michael R. Katz ...
    No work in modern literature, with the possible exception of Uncle Tom's Cabin, can compete with What Is to Be Done? in its effect on human lives and its power to make history. For Chernyshevsky's novel, far more than Marx's Capital, supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russian Revolution.―The Southern ReviewAlmost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    de Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. This book's premise is that late Soviet and post ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953

    de Neil Owen, Robin Bunce ...
    Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthe... ... Leer más

    Antes $6.99 USD Ahora $2.99 USD

  • Fear and the Muse Kept Watch

    The Russian Mastersfrom Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and EisensteinUnder Stalin

    de Andy McSmith ...
    In this dazzling exploration of one of the most contradictory periods of literary and artistic achievement in modern history, journalist Andy McSmith evokes the lives of more than a dozen of the most brilliant artists and writers of the twentieth century. Taking us deep into Stalin's Russia, Fear and the Muse Kept Watch asks the question: can great art be produced in a police state? For although ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The "Domostroi"

    Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible

    de Carolyn Johnston Pouncy ...
    Winner of the 1994 Heldt Prize from the Association of Women in Slavic StudiesA manual on household management, the Domostroi is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. It depicts a society that prized religious orthodoxy, reliance on tradition, and absolute subordination of the individual to the family and the state. Specific ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Alexander Medvedkin Reader

    de Alexander Medvedkin ...
    Traducido por Nikita Lary, Jay Leyda ...
    Series series Cinema and Modernity
    Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900–89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of “total” documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, as well as for his use of satire during a period when the Soviet authorities preferred that laughter be confined to narrowly prescribed channels. This collection of ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley

    A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia

    de Vladimir Nalivkin, Maria Nalivkina ...
    Traducido por Mariana Markova ...
    Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley is the first English translation of an important 19th-century Russian text describing everyday life in Uzbek communities. Vladimir and Maria Nalivkin were Russians who settled in a "Sart" village in 1878, in a territory newly conquered by the Russian Empire. During their six years in Nanay, Maria Nalivkina learned the local language, befriended her neighbors, and ... Leer más

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  • Nicholas Karamzin and Russian Society in the Nineteenth Century

    A Study in Russian Political and Historical Thought

    de J. Laurence Black ...
    Series series Heritage
    Nicholas Karamzin (1766–1826) was a remarkably active thinker and writer during a time that was trying to all Europeans. A first-hand witness to the French Revolution, Napoleonic suzerainty over Europe, the burning of Moscow, and the Decembrist revolt in St. Petersburg, he presented in his voluminous correspondence and published writings a world view that recognized the weaknesses of the Russian ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Tolstoy On War

    Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace"

    Edición de Rick McPeak, Donna Tussing Orwin ...
    In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays the history and military strategy of its time in a manner that offers lessons for the soldiers ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD