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Author | : Ann Berge |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1404802843 |
Privyet! Welcome to Russia! Come along on this ABC adventure through the biggest country on Earth. Read about diamond-studded eggs, the deepest lake in the world, and other fascinating facts.
Author | : Nikolaĭ Alekseevich Nekrasov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Victor Terras |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780300048681 |
Profiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays
Author | : James H. Billington |
Publisher | : Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004-03-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0801879760 |
Billington describes the contentious discussion occurring all over Russia and across the political spectrum. He finds conflicts raging among individuals as much as between organized groups and finds a deep underlying tension between the Russians' attempts to legitimize their new, nominally democratic identity, and their efforts to craft a new version of their old authoritarian tradition. After showing how the problem of Russian identity was framed in the past, Billington asks whether Russians will now look more to the West for a place in the common European home, or to the East for a new, Eurasian identity.
Author | : Oliver Bullough |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465074979 |
Russia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity masks a deep-rooted demographic tragedy. Faced with staggering population decline—and near-certain economic collapse—driven by toxic levels of alcohol abuse, Russia is also battling a deeper sickness: a spiritual one, born out of the country’s long totalitarian experiment. In The Last Man in Russia, award-winning journalist Oliver Bullough uses the tale of a lone priest to give life to this national crisis. Father Dmitry Dudko, a dissident Orthodox Christian, was thrown into a Stalinist labor camp for writing poetry. Undaunted, on his release in the mid-1950s he began to preach to congregations across Russia with little concern for his own safety. At a time when the Soviet government denied its subjects the prospect of advancement, and turned friend against friend and brother against brother, Dudko urged his followers to cling to hope. He maintained a circle of sacred trust at the heart of one of history’s most deceitful systems. But as Bullough reveals, this courageous group of believers was eventually shattered by a terrible act of betrayal—one that exposes the full extent of the Communist tragedy. Still, Dudko’s dream endures. Although most Russians have forgotten the man himself, the embers of hope that survived the darkness are once more beginning to burn. Leading readers from a churchyard in Moscow to the snow-blanketed ghost towns of rural Russia, and from the forgotten graves of Stalin’s victims to a rock festival in an old gulag camp, The Last Man in Russia is at once a travelogue, a sociological study, a biography, and a cri de coeur for a dying nation—one that, Bullough shows, might yet be saved.
Author | : Stanislav Shvabrin |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2019-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487502990 |
The author of such global bestsellers as Lolita and Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) is also one of the most controversial literary translators and translation theorists of modern time. In Between Rhyme and Reason, Stanislav Shvabrin discloses the complexity, nuance, and contradictions behind Nabokov's theory and practice of literalism to reveal how and why translation came to matter to Nabokov so much. Drawing on familiar as well as unknown materials, Shvabrin traces the surprising and largely unknown trajectory of Nabokov's lifelong fascination with translation to demonstrate that, for Nabokov, translation was a form of intellectual communion with his peers across no fewer than six languages. Empowered by Mikhail Bakhtin's insights into the interactive roots of literary creativity, Shvabrin's interpretative chronicle of Nabokov's involvement with translation shows how his dialogic encounters with others in the medium of translation left verbal vestiges on his own creations. Refusing to regard translation as a form of individual expression, Nabokov translated to communicate with his interlocutors, whose words and images continue to reverberate throughout his allusion-rich texts.
Author | : Sigmund S. Birkenmayer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1961 |
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Author | : Ziva Galili y Garcia |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521263255 |
This book presents the life histories of three prominent survivors of the Menshevik party: Lydia Dan, Boris Nicolaevsky, and George Denike.
Author | : Juliet M. Soskice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1879 |
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Author | : Andrey Platonov |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590175859 |
An NYRB Classics Original Moscow Chestnova is a bold and glamorous girl, a beautiful parachutist who grew up with the Revolution. As an orphan, she knew tough times—but things are changing now. Comrade Stalin has proclaimed that “Life has become better! Life has become merrier!” and Moscow herself is poised to join the Soviet elite. But her ambitions are thwarted when a freak accident propels her flaming from the sky. A new, stranger life begins. Moscow drifts from man to man, through dance halls, all-night diners, and laboratories in which the secret of immortality is actively being investigated, exploring the endless avenues and vacant spaces of the great city whose name she bears, looking for happiness, somewhere, still. Unpublishable during Platonov’s lifetime, Happy Moscow first appeared in Russian only in 1991. This new edition contains not only a revised translation of Happy Moscow but several related works: a screenplay, a prescient essay about ecological catastrophe, and two short stories in which same characters reappear and the reader sees the mind of an extraordinary writer at work.