Making the New Post-Soviet Person

Making the New Post-Soviet Person
Author: Jarrett Zigon
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2010
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 900418371X

The post-Soviet years have widely been interpreted as a period of intense moral questioning, debate, and struggle. Despite this claim, few studies have revealed how this moral experience has been lived and articulated by Russians themselves. This book provides an intimate portrait of how five Muscovites have experienced the post-Soviet years as a period of intense refashioning of their moral personhood, and how this process can only be understood at the intersection of their unique personal experiences, a shared Russian/Soviet history, and increasingly influential global discourses and practices. The result is a new approach to understanding everyday moral experience and the processes by which new moral persons are cultivated.

Fairy Tales and True Stories

Fairy Tales and True Stories
Author: Ben Hellman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004256385

Russian literature for children and young people has a history that goes back over 400 years, starting in the late sixteenth century with the earliest alphabet primers and passing through many different phases over the centuries that followed. It has its own success stories and tragedies, talented writers and mediocrities, bestsellers and long-forgotten prize winners. After their seizure of power in 1917, the Bolsheviks set about creating a new culture for a new man and a starting point was children's literature. 70 years of Soviet control and censorship were succeeded in the 1990s by a re-birth of Russian children's literature. This book charts the whole of this story, setting Russian authors and their books in the context of translated literature, critical debates and official cultural policy.

The Great Glass Sea

The Great Glass Sea
Author: Josh Weil
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802192866

A New York Times Editors’ Choice, this epic tale of brotherly love set in a dystopian alternate reality is filled with the magic of Russian folklore. After their father’s death, twin brothers Yarik and Dima grew up together on their uncle’s farm, spending their days helping fishermen and their nights spellbound by their uncle’s stories. Years later, the two men labor at the Oranzheria, a sprawling glass greenhouse and a capitalist experiment that keeps the surrounding townspeople in perpetual daylight. Work is now all the twins have in common. Stalwart Yarik is married with children, and oppressed by the burden of responsibility and the pressures of work, while dreamer Dima lives with his mother—and rooster—and spends his time planning the brothers’ return to their uncle’s land. Then one day a bizarre encounter with the Oranzheria’s ruthless owner changes everything. Soon they find themselves at the center of strange conspiracies, disasters, and deceptions that threaten all they know. Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction, and the GrubStreet National Book Prize. A featured Los Angels Times “Summer Book,” a Bustle “Best Book for July,” and one of Flavorwire’s “10 Must Read Books for July.” “A genuinely fascinating novel—for its inventiveness, its passionate breadth and vision.” —Richard Ford “Among the most gifted writers of his generation.” —Colum McCann

Broken Forever

Broken Forever
Author: Amadi Arua
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0987763253

Broken Forever is an exhilarating story that reveals the unfortunate realities of our time. The book is all about investigation and investigation techniques having its focus on seductive investigation. Dima Kisa is a notorious peddler who runs his drug business with the connivance of some prominent cops, but when he fell in love with Masha Alexy Nketia, the great beautiful and intelligent female detective for seductive investigation techniques, the impregnable peddlers connection was broken. Masha Alexy Nketia's techniques unravel the mystery behind Dima Kisa's power to escape cop traps and unmask the face behind the dastardly act amongst the cops.

Under the Spell of the Moon

Under the Spell of the Moon
Author: Patricia Aldana
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0888995598

Collects illustrations from around the world by such award-winning children's book illustrators as Rosemary Wells and Ange Zhang, and presents accompanying text or verse written or chosen by the artists in both the original language and English.

Vampires. Mystical stories

Vampires. Mystical stories
Author: Svetlana Mirrai
Publisher: Litres
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2022-04-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 5044386421

Among the cover of the dark night, frightening shadows fall on the ground, which are cast by the dry branches of dead trees.Everything freezes and becomes very quiet. It is impossible to meet a single living soul here who would wander around these surroundings.Birds also fly around this perilous place with the frightening name of the village of the “Dead”.But sometimes she comes to life. It’s the local vampires going out on the hunt for their new victim.

Jimmy O’Grande versus the FWB (Fish Witch Bitch)

Jimmy O’Grande versus the FWB (Fish Witch Bitch)
Author: Doc Mingo
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2023-12-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1665753145

Jimmy and Leo were a match blessed by The Angel of Fate. Two beautiful young men were laying naked under the sun by the shores of Lake Getchie one day long ago, about to seal a deal of perfect love. But instead of sharing a love that was meant to be, a demon fish swam along and came between them. It’s a tragedy when innocents don’t know well enough to be wary of deals with cloaked demons, for the devil’s blessings are always curses in disguise. In a moment of youthful naïveté, Jimmy is fooled into thinking he is a hero and saved the devil in disguise, and thus he had earned himself a charm reward from the demon fish. A powerful magic charm is given to him that makes everyone who looks into Jimmy’s eyes love him. And the more that everyone looked, the more that they loved Jimmy. Is there ever such an easy path that can be taken that skips over the hard work needed to create anything of truly lasting value? Is it possible that all that glitters is not gold? Can such a thing as easy love ever be a blessing? Or is love come easy always destined to be a road to ruin? Leo out of love and loyalty becomes trapped in a closet of secret love as Jimmy’s life long best friend and manager. And so the lucky demon fish ends up having captured two souls for the magical price of one. Will Leo’s love and loyalty prove stronger than the glitter of golden promises of easy love and riches? Or will the demon fish steal away the blessings of love bestowed upon the two boys by the Angel of Fate, and mock the heavens that seem to shun her? In this life and death struggle between good and evil, who shall live and who shall die? In the third volume of this illustrated series ‘The Lakeside Fairy Tales,’ we explore more of the Boystown Chicago parallel universe of ‘Center City’ through the lives and loves of her diverse community. Come share another story with me about a new love, and catch up with all of the characters from the series as all their lives and loves mix and swirl and flow together I each new story. All of them just like us, for are we not one and all but leaves in the stream? Stirred and whirled by the magic of the cosmos that reigns supreme in the vast eternal waters of The Great Lake. Come let me tell you a fairy tale and convince you that the magic of the cosmos is alive and real and in each and everyone of us.

Fairy Tail

Fairy Tail
Author: Hiro Mashima
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2016
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1682332640

Case Of Leonid Plyushch

Case Of Leonid Plyushch
Author: Tatyana Khodorovich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2019-03-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429727909

There are people whose destiny it is to go far beyond the limits of their biography or background. They generalize many people's experiences and become symbols. The name of General Grigorenko has been such a symbol for five years. The same is true of the mathematician Leonid Plyushch.' These words, written by the Soviet scholar Igor Shafarevich, are likely to echo and re-echo in the mind as the reader absorbs this book. For Leonid Plyushch has become a symbol of the resistance to a crime, and the pages that follow present poignant and irrefutable evidence of that crime.