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  • Shostakovich

    A Life

    de Laurel Fay ...
    For this authoritative post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's illustrious but turbulent career under Soviet rule, Laurel E. Fay has gone back to primary documents: Shostakovich's many letters, concert programs and reviews, newspaper articles, and diaries of his contemporaries. An indefatigable worker, he wrote his arresting music despite deprivations during the Nazi invasion and constant ... Leer más

    $24.69 USD

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  • Secret Lives of the Tsars

    Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia

    de Michael Farquhar ...
    “Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnistScandal! Intrigue! Cossacks! Here the world’s most engaging royal historian chronicles the world’s most fascinating ... Leer más

    Antes $9.99 USD Ahora $5.99 USD

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  • Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Vladimir Lenin

    de Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes pictures of important people, places, and events in Lenin's life.*Explains the origins of Vladimir Lenin's name.*Includes a Table of ContentsWe want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Sounds and Sweet Airs

    The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

    de Anna Beer ...
    The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man’s world.‘Lucid, engaging and exuberant... [Sounds and Sweet Airs] is terrifically enjoyable and accessible, and leaves one hankering for a second volume.’ The Sunday TimesFrancesca Caccini. Barbara Strozzi. Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Marianna Martines. Fanny Hensel. Clara Schumann. Lili Boulanger. Elizabeth Maconchy.Since the ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Conversations With Stalin

    de Milovan Djilas ...
    A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich. ... Leer más

    Antes $12.99 USD Ahora $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • AQA A-level History: Tsarist and Communist Russia 1855-1964

    de Chris Corin, Terry Fiehn ...
    Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016AQA approvedEnhance and expand your students' knowledge and understanding of their AQA breadth study through expert narrative, progressive skills development and bespoke essays from leading historians on key debates.- Builds... ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Battle of Stalingrad

    The First Defeat of the German Wehrmacht

    de 50minutes ...
    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of Stalingrad in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of Stalingrad. In August 1942, three years after the start of the Second World War, Nazi Germany and its allies launched a brutal attack on the Russian city of Stalingrad. However, after months of ... Leer más

    $13.41 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The People's Artist

    Prokofiev's Soviet Years

    de Simon Morrison ...
    Sergey Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's greatest composers--and one of its greatest mysteries. Until now. In The People's Artist, Simon Morrison draws on groundbreaking research to illuminate the life of this major composer, deftly analyzing Prokofiev's music in light of new archival discoveries. Indeed, Morrison was the first scholar to gain access to the composer's sealed files in ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Virtuosi Abroad

    Soviet Music and Imperial Competition during the Early Cold War, 1945–1958

    de Kiril Tomoff ...
    In the 1940s and 1950s, Soviet musicians and ensembles were acclaimed across the globe. They toured the world, wowing critics and audiences, projecting an image of the USSR as a sophisticated promoter of cultural and artistic excellence. In Virtuosi Abroad, Kiril Tomoff focuses on music and the Soviet Union's star musicians to explore the dynamics of the cultural Cold War. He views the competition ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Comradely Greetings

    The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj

    de Slavoj Zizek, Nadezhda Tololonnikova ...
    ”We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is used to hearing G flat.”In an extraordinary exchange of letters, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, imprisoned for taking part in Pussy Riot’s anti-Putin ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Cultivating the Masses

    Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914–1939

    de David L. Hoffmann ...
    Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet government carried out a massive number of deportations, incarcerations, and executions. Paradoxically, at the very moment that Soviet authorities were killing thousands of individuals, they were also engaged in an enormous pronatalist campaign to boost the population. Even as the number of repressions grew exponentially, Communist Party leaders enacted ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Music of Lutosławski

    de Charles Bodman Rae ...
    Witold Lutosławski is widely regarded as one of the foremost composers of the post-war era and one of the truly great musicians of the 20th century. Charles Bodman Rae's examination of Lutosławski 's life and work draws on wide-ranging and meticulous research, including hours of recorded conversation with the composer himself. Now expanded for this third edition to include an additional chapter ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD