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Clayton Douglas J.
Dimitry's Shade : A Reading of Alexander Pushkin's Boris Godunov
8vo, hardcover, pp.xiii-220. Boris Godunov as the expression of Alexander Pushkin's thinking about the Russian state, especially the Russian state of his own time (some two hundred years distant from the events of the play), and even his own place within that state. Dimitry's Shade makes a startling departure from the traditional interpretation of Boris Godunov as the some-what awkward product of an exiled and angry young liberal-leaning poet who hated Tsar Alexander I, questioned autocracy, and flirted with atheism. Here instead we see how the play marks a sharp break with the Decembrists and Pushkin's own youthful liberalism, signaling its author's emergence as a Russian conservative. Boris Godunov, Clayton argues, can be best understood as an ideologically conservative defense of autocracy. In addition, Clayton shows that the play contains significant religious elements that have long been ignored by scholars due primarily to prejudices dating from the Stalin era
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MARCOU Lilly
Stalin Vita Privata
In 8°, cop. edit. ill., pp. (XV),256,(2), con ill. b.n. n.t., volume della collana "Biblioteca di storia"
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Emerson Caryl
Boris Godunov: Transposition of a Russian Theme (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies)
8vo, ex library with stamps and stickers, ow. good. no dust jacket, 272pp. Summary: The tale of Boris Godunov-tsar, usurper, tsarecide-dating from the early seventeenth-century Time of Troubles, inspired three major nineteenth-century Russian cultural expressions: in history by Nikolai Karamzin, in drama by Alexander Pushkin, and in opera by Modest Musorgsky. Each of these famous creations was a vehicle for generic innovation, in which a specifically Russian concept of genre was asserted in opposition to the reigning European models: German historiography, French melodrama, and Italian opera. Within a Bakhtinian framework, Caryl Emerson explores these three versions of the Boris Tale, the context of their genesis, and their complex interrelationships Ex-Library
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Skrynnikov Ruslan G.
Boris Godunov (The Russian Series) (Volume 35) (
8vo. pp xix, 175. Original publishers blue cloth lettered gilt at spine and cover. Illustrations. ex-library with stickers and stamps, ow very good., nice copy. Ex-Library
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Fitzpatrick Sheila
Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization
8vo, hardcover in dj. ppxvii-313.Summary: Drawing on newly-opened Soviet archives, especially the letters of complaint and petition with which peasants deluged the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, Stalin's Peasants analyzes peasants' strategies of resistance and survival in the new world of the collectivized village. Stalin's Peasants is a story of struggle between transformationally-minded Communists and traditionally-minded peasants over the terms of collectivization--a struggle of opposing practices, not a struggle in which either side clearly articulated its position. But it is also a story about the impact of collectivization on the internal social relations and culture of the village, exploring questions of authority and leadership, feuds, denunciations, rumors, and changes in religious observance. For the first time, it is possible to see the real people behind the facade of the "Potemkin village" created by Soviet propagandists. In the Potemkin village, happy peasants clustered around a kolkhoz (collective farm) tractor, praising Stalin and promising to produce more grain as a patriotic duty. In the real Russian village of the 1930s, as we learn from Soviet political police reports, sullen and hungry peasants described collectivization as a "second serfdom," cursed all Communists, and blamed Stalin personally for their plight. Sheila Fitzpatrick's work is truly a landmark in studies of the Stalinist period--a richly-documented social history told from the traumatic experiences of the long-suffering underclass of peasants. Anyone interested in Soviet and Russian history, peasant studies, or social history will appreciate this major contribution to our understanding of life in Stalin's Russia
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Perrie Maureen
Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time and Troubles
8vo, hardcover in dj, More than a dozen pretenders appeared in Russia in the early seventeenth century, during the period of civil strife and foreign invasion known as the Time of Troubles. The most successful of these was the First False Dimitry, who occupied the throne in 1605-6; he was followed by Second and Third False Dimitrys, and by various other impostors. Maureen Perrie traces the careers of these pretenders and offers explanations of their success. She argues that support for the false tsars and tsareviches was influenced not only by the ingenious tales they told to justify their claims, but also by religious-miraculous notions of Christ-like rulers risen from the dead, and by popular monarchist views of the true tsar as the scourge of the boyars. Her conclusion draws comparisons and contrasts between the Russian pretenders and royal impostors who appeared elsewhere in early modern Europe
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Fitzpatrick Sheila
A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia
8vo, hardcover, First edition, first impression. In 'as new' condition, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, looks unopened, unread. 346pp, illustrated. In 1968 historian Sheila Fitzpatrick was 'outed' by the Soviet newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya as the next thing to a spy for Western intelligence. A graduate student at Oxford, Fitzpatrick had spent time in Moscow to access several of its archives for her doctoral research on A V Lunacharsky, the first Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Moscow, the world capital of socialism, was renowned for its drabness. The buses were overcrowded; there were endemic shortages and endless queues. This was the era of Brezhnev, of a possible 'thaw' in the Cold War, when the Soviets couldn't decide either to thaw out properly or re-freeze. Yet, despite KGB attention, and the impossibility of finding a suitable winter coat, Sheila felt more at home in Moscow than anywhere else- a feeling cemented by her friendships with Lunacharsky's brother-in-law, Igor and daughter, Irina. Punctuated by letter to her mother in Australia and her diary entries from the time, and borne along by Fitzpatrick's wry insightful narrative, A Spy in the Archives captures the life and time of Cold War Russia and provides a unique insight into everyday life in the Soviet Union
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Starr Frederick
Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union 1917-1991
8vo, br. ed. 436pp.
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HAXTHAUSEN, August von (Ed. Frederick Starr)
Studies on the Interior of Russia Edited and with an introduction by S. Frederick Starr. Translated by Eleanore L M Scmidt
8vo, br. ed. Original text with lengthy new introduction, copious notes and indices. xlv, 328pp. B&W images. Contents include: Moscow; Iaroslavl Province; The Sectarians; The Mennonites; Kiev; Tula; Religion in Russia; Communes; and The mission of Russia
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Antonkin Alexei
Les Chiens de Faience. Témpoignage d'un correspondant de l'agence Tass à Pékin pour servir a l'histoire de l'Union soviétique et de la Chine
8vo, br. ed. 14.5x21. 215pp.
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Lilin Nicolai
Favole Fuorilegge
br. ed.
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Piretto Gian Piero
Gli occhi di Stalin. La cultura visuale sovietica nell'era Staliniana
8vo, pp.247. Cinema, cartelloni pubblicitari, monumenti, complessi architettonici: attraverso immagini di grande suggestione si indagano le strategie che hanno contribuito a costruire il sistema sociale, politico e culturale dello stalinismo. Il particolare universo visivo istituito da Stalin - sguardo del dittatore costantemente percepito dal cittadino, grazie alle infinite riproduzioni del corpo (e degli occhi) del capo - caratterizza il ventennio che ha segnato l'affermazione del socialismo reale in Russia, gli anni Trenta e Quaranta del secolo scorso. L'ambiguo ma decisivo binomio terrore-euforia è il filo rosso che attraversa i capitoli del libro, dedicati ai differenti ambiti in cui trova espressione il Regime. Dal progetto della ricostruzione di Mosca ai "cantieri socialisti" del Nord, creati per addomesticare la natura; dal recupero di antiche tradizioni russe tradotte nel nuovo linguaggio sovietico alla costruzione di un "corpo collettivo" efficiente e ideologizzato, passando per mostre e parate, scatole di fiammiferi e carte di caramella.
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Druzhnikov Yuri
Informer 001: The Myth of Pavlik Morozov
8vo, br. ed. pp.214. When Russia was in the throes of Joseph Stalin's campaign for the forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture, a young boy named Pavlik Morozov informed the OGPU (later called the KGB) that his father was an enemy of the regime. As a result, Pavlik's father was arrested and disappeared in a Soviet concentration camp. Enemies of the party later killed the boy, whereupon people proclaimed him a hero. After that, Pavlik Morozov's glory surpassed the fame of many Russian heroes. Hundreds of works have been published about the boy in various genres; his portrait has graced galleries, postcards, and postage stamps; ships and libraries have been dedicated in his honor. Informer 001 is the first independent study of the Morozov affair. Yuri Druzhnikov examined documents, visited museums, and interviewed everyone who knew Morozov during his short lifetime. In book after book, he discovered inconsistencies in every fact, from where Morozov was born to how old he was at the time of his death. As Druzhnikov pieced together the story about Morozov's life, death, and legacy, it became clear that the campaign to keep Morozov a hero was centrally directed. Informer hero number 001 remained a fearful reminder to all; to those who inform, and those who become the victims of denunciations. Informer 001 offers Western readers a unique glimpse into the behind-the-scenes operations of Soviet political history and will be fascinating for the general public, as well as for sociologists, historians, and Russian studies specialists.
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Sokol Edward Dennis , with a Foreword of Frederic S. Starr
The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia
8vo, br. ed. During the summer of 1916, approximately 270,000 Central Asians-Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks-perished at the hands of the Russian army in a revolt
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Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
8vo, br. ed. 189pp.
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Cechov Anton
L'isola Di Sachalin
8vo, br. ed. bandelle.
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Piretto Gian Piero
Icone sovietiche. Il cantastoria. Testi delle canzoni abbinate alla raccolta di immagini. Con CD Audio Copertina flessibile 13 nov 2015
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Atkinson Mrs
Recollections of Tartar steppes and their Inhabitants
8vo, br. ed. 8vo., pp. xvi, 351
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Suny Ronald Grigor
Red Flag Unfurled: History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution
8vo, hardcover in dj, on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny-one of the world s leading historians of the period-explores the historiographical controversies over 1917, Stalinism, and the end of Communism and provides an assessment of the achievements, costs, losses and legacies of the choices made by Soviet leaders. While a quarter century after the disintegration of the USSR, the story usually told is one of failure and inevitable collapse, Suny reevaluates the promises, missed opportunities, achievements, and colossal costs of trying to build a kind of socialism in the inhospitable environment of peasant Russia. He ponders what lessons 1917 provides for Marxism and the alternatives to capitalism and bourgeois democracy.
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Losurdo Domenico
Rivoluzione d'ottobre e democrazia nel Mondo
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Ivanov Vsevolod
Asvero e Sisifo figlio di Eolo
8vo, br. ed. 103pp.
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Smith Kathleen E.
Moscow 1956 the Silenced Spring
8vo hardcover in Dust Jacket Condition. 448 pp. 28 halftones. "Joseph Stalin had been dead for three years when his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, stunned a closed gathering of Communist officials with a litany of his predecessor’s abuses. Meant to clear the way for reform from above, Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” of February 25, 1956, shattered the myth of Stalin’s infallibility. In a bid to rejuvenate the Party, Khrushchev had his report read out loud to members across the Soviet Union that spring. However, its message sparked popular demands for more information and greater freedom to debate. Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring brings this first brief season of thaw into fresh focus. Drawing on newly declassified Russian archives, Kathleen Smith offers a month-by-month reconstruction of events as the official process of de-Stalinization unfolded and political and cultural experimentation flourished. Smith looks at writers, students, scientists, former gulag prisoners, and free-thinkers who took Khrushchev’s promise of liberalization seriously, testing the limits of a more open Soviet system. But when anti-Stalin sentiment morphed into calls for democratic reform and eventually erupted in dissent within the Soviet bloc—notably in the Hungarian uprising—the Party balked and attacked critics. Yet Khrushchev had irreversibly opened his compatriots’ eyes to the flaws of monopolistic rule. Citizens took the Secret Speech as inspiration and permission to opine on how to restore justice and build a better society, and the new crackdown only reinforced their discontent. The events of 1956 set in motion a cycle of reform and retrenchment that would recur until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991.".
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Pinnow Kenneth M.
Lost to the Collective: Suicide & the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-1929
8vo, Hardback. Condition: New. Language: English . As an act of unbridled individualism, suicide confronted the Bolshevik regime with a dilemma that challenged both its theory and its practice and helped give rise to a social science state whose primary purpose was the comprehensive and rational care of the population. Labeled a social illness and represented as a vestige of prerevolutionary culture, suicide in the 1920s raised troubling questions about individual health and agency in a socialist society, provided a catalyst for the development of new social bonds and subjective outlooks, and became a marker of the country s incomplete move toward a collectivist society. Determined to eradicate the scourge of self-destruction, the regime created a number of institutions and commissions to identify pockets of disease and foster an integrated social order. The Soviet confrontation with suicide reveals with particular force the regime s anxieties about the relationship between the state and the individual. In Lost to the Collective, Kenneth M. Pinnow suggests the compatibility of the social sciences with Bolshevik dictatorship and highlights their illusory promises of control over the everyday life of groups and individuals. The book traces the creation of national statistical studies, the course of medical debates about causation and expert knowledge, and the formation of a distinct set of practices in the Bolshevik Party and Red Army that aimed to identify the suicidal individual and establish his or her significance for the rest of society. Arguing that the Soviet regime represents a particular response to the pressures and challenges of modernity, the book examines Soviet socialism--from its intense concern with the individual to its quest to build an integrated society--as one response to the larger question of human unity
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Haslam Jonathan
Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence
8vo, hardcover in dj, the first ever substantiated and complete history of Soviet intelligence. Based on a mass of newly declassified Russian secret intelligence documentation, it reveals the true story of Soviet intelligence from its very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold War. Covering both main branches of Soviet espionage - civilian and military - Jonathan Haslam charts the full range of the Soviet intelligence effort and the story of its development: in cryptography, disinformation, special forces, and counter-intelligence. In a tragic irony, an organization that so casually disposed of others critically depended upon the human factor. Due to their lack of expertise and technological know-how, from early on the Soviets were forced to rely heavily on secret agents instead of the more sophisticated code-breaking techniques of other intelligence agencies. But in this they were highly successful, recruiting spy rings such as the infamous Cambridge Five in the 1930s. Had it not been for Soviet espionage against Britain s code-breaking effort during the Second World War, Stalin might never have won the victory that later enabled him to dominate half of Europe. Similarly, espionage directed at his allies enabled the Soviets to build an atomic bomb earlier than expected and to take calculated risks in post-war diplomacy, such as his audacious blockade of Berlin which led to the Berlin Airlift. Khrushchev s denunciation of Stalin in 1956 alienated many of the foreign friends so valued by the Soviet intelligence services. It also made new recruitment of foreign agents much more difficult, as the USSR rapidly lost its glamour and ideological appeal to potential supporters in the West during the 1950s. However, the gap was finally bridged through exploiting greedy and disloyal Western intelligence officers, using blackmail and bribery - and with great success. In fact, it was the ultimate irony that the KGB and GRU had never been more effective than when the Soviet Union began to collapse from within
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Ilizarov Boris S.
Vita segreta di Stalin. Le letture, il profilo psicologico e Intellettuale
8vo, ril. ed. sovracoperta 435pp.Lo Stalin che qui si affaccia, non si era quasi mai affacciato dalle centinaia di biografie scritte in tutte le lingue del mondo. Infatti questa non è una biografia alla Dimitri Volgokonov. E neppure un'opera di analisi storica, alla Robert Conquest. Ilizarov, e lo dice onestamente, non pretende di spiegare Stalin né lo stalinismo, ma di capire un poco di più l'uomo e il fenomeno storico, così "riusciremo anche a capire qualcosa di noi". Al lettore viene offerto il ritratto di uno Stalin sconosciuto, tracciato a partire dalle letture dei libri che egli fittamente annotava e dai documenti, in passato inaccessibili, del suo archivio personale.
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Pavlioukov Alexei
Le fonctionnaire de la Grande Terreur : Nikolaï Iejov : Le fonctionnaire de la Grande Terreur
8vo, br. ed. 653pp. Le nom de Iejov, ministre du NKVD, la police politique soviétique, est associé pour toujours au moment le plus sinistre de l’histoire russe, celui de la Grande Terreur (1937-1938) et de ses millions de victimes. Alexeï Pavlioukov a eu accès aux archives centrales du FSB (les services de police politique), habituellement fermées aux chercheurs, et en particulier aux dossiers d’instruction de Iejov lui-même et de ses plus proches collaborateurs, quand ils furent à leur tour arrêtés. Cherchant à se disculper, tous racontèrent dans le détail comment la machine avait été mise en marche sur ordre de Staline, et comment elle avait fonctionné pendant un peu moins de deux ans avec ses quotas de victimes planifiés. Iejov, personnalité banale, sinon falote, apprenti tailleur, soldat adhérant pendant la révolution au parti bolchevik dont il devient un fonctionnaire, s’élève peu à peu à l’intérieur de l’appareil grâce à une vertu que très vite relèvent ses chefs : l'aptitude à exécuter coûte que coûte les ordres reçus, sans états d’âme autres que la promesse d’une promotion. Petit, timide, piètre orateur, inculte, il serait probablement depuis longtemps oublié s’il était resté un homme de l’appareil du parti responsable des cadres et n'avait pas été, par la volonté de Staline, appelé à s’occuper de la police politique.Le lecteur suit pas à pas cette ascension, puis la chute quand Staline décide de mettre fin à la Grande Terreur et de se débarrasser de ses exécutants. Iejov fut un rouage essentiel de la Grande Terreur ; sa biographie est en réalité celle d’un système avec la part de hasards, de rencontres, d’opportunités de carrière, de logique bureaucratique et d’effets sanguinaires, dictés tant par l’aveuglement idéologique que par les circonstances d’une réalité qui échappe aux plans et se montre rétive aux programmes. C’est, somme toute, la biographie scrupuleuse d’une criminalité de bureau. A. E. Pavlioukov est chercheur à l'Institut de sociologie de l'Académie des sciences de Russie
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Platonov Sergio
BORIS GODOUNOV.(Godunov)
8vo di pp. 253 con 15 tavv. f.t., br. originale, ingiallita sul dorso, altrimenti in ottime condizioni
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Cardini Franco
Il Sultano e Lo Zar. Due imperi a confronto
8vo. 274pp. BROSSURA. La Sublime Porta e il Cremlino, sullo scacchiere mondiale per il controllo delle terre tra Europa e Asia: dal Bosforo al Pamir, dal Caucaso a Suez. Lotte, commerci, scoperte e accordi tra le potenze che ancora oggi si contendono il dominio del'Oriente.
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Eberle Henrik
The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Hitler's Personal Aides
8vo, br. ed. 370pp. Stalin had never been able to shake off the nightmare of Adolf Hitler. Just as in 1941 he refused to understand that Hitler had broken their non-aggression pact, he was in 1945 unwilling to believe that the dictator had committed suicide in the debris of the Berlin bunker. In his paranoia, Stalin ordered his secret police, the NKVD, precursor to the KGB, to explore in detail every last vestige of the private life of the only man he considered a worthy opponent, and to clarify beyond doubt the circumstances of his death. For months two captives of the Soviet Army--Otto Guensche, Hitler's adjutant, and Heinz Linge, his personal valet--were interrogated daily, their stories crosschecked, until the NKVD were convinced that they had the fullest possible account of the life of the Führer. In 1949 they presented their work, in a single copy, to Stalin. It is as remarkable for the depth of its insight into Adolf Hitler--from his specific directions to Linge as to how his body was to be burned, to his sense of humor--as for what it does not say, reflecting the prejudices of the intended reader: Joseph Stalin. Nowhere, for instance, does the dossier criticize Hitler's treatment of the Jews. Today, the 413-page original of Stalin's personal biography of Hitler is a Kremlin treasure and it is said to be held in President Putin's safe. The only other copy, made by order of Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, in 1959, was deposited in Moscow Party archives under the code number 462A. It was there that Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl, two German historians, found it. Available to the public in full for the first time, The Hitler Book presents a captivating, astonishing, and deeply revealing portrait of Hitler, Stalin, and the mutual antagonism of these two dictators, who between them wrought devastation on the European continent.
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Adelman, Jonathan R.
The Revolutionary Armies : The Historical Development of the Soviet and the Chinese People's Liberation Armies (38) (Contributions in Political Science Ser., No. 38)
8vo, x + 230 pp, 5.75 x 8.5, HB, 1st prtg,The historical development of the Soviet and Chinese People's Liberation Armies. An examination of the differences that have existed between the Red Army and the People's Liberation Army in their roles in party and societal affairs in the two decades after the end of the civil wars. The sources of these differences, particularly in the civil war period; the nature of revolutionary change in the two countries. The formative influence of the civil wars etc.
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Akhmedov Ismail
In and out of Stalin's GRU : a Tatar's escape from Red Army Intelligence
Map endpapers. octavo. 222 pgs with glossary & index. Red cloth, with very good dust jacket
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Belyj Andrej
Il Colombo D'argento
In-8vo, br. ed. traduzione di carmelo cascone.
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Piretto Gian Piero
Quando c'era l'URSS. 70 anni di storia culturale sovietica
8vo, ril. ed. pp.628. L'universo sovietico ha suscitato per circa settant'anni entusiasmi e avversioni. Attraverso una periodizzazione non scandita dalla banalità dei decenni, in questo libro si analizzano eventi storici, imprese, campagne promozionali e dissuasorie subite dai cittadini del paese dei Soviet, con uno speciale accento sulla percezione dei fatti nella quotidianità della gente comune. Propaganda, retorica, passioni sono prese in esame sulla base della cartellonisti-ca, delle riviste, del cinema, dell'architettura, delle arti, della cronaca. Dai trascinanti investimenti dei primi anni al binomio euforia-terrore che ha segnato l'era staliniana, dalle sottoculture giovanili degli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta ai primi passi del rock nei Settanta, si giungerà alla fatidica notte di Natale del 1991, quando venne ammainata la bandiera rossa sul Cremlino. Tutto documentato da un ricco apparato iconografico tratto dalla straordinaria produzione di grafici e artisti del tempo
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Kennan George
Tent life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamtchatka and Northern Asia
First edition.16mo, library hard binding, pocket and labels, 425pp. With a folding map. Ex-Library
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Grossman Vasily, Intr. Robert Chandler
Stalingrad
8vo, hardcover in dj. 992p. One of the great novels of the 20th century, and now published in English for the first time' Observer In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history. Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and spends a final night with his wife and children in the hut that is his home. As war approaches, the Shaposhnikov family gathers for a meal: despite her age, Alexandra will soon become a refugee; Tolya will enlist in the reserves; Vera, a nurse, will fall in love with a wounded pilot; and Viktor Shtrum will receive a letter from his doomed mother which will haunt him forever. The war will consume the lives of a huge cast of characters – lives which express Grossman’s grand themes of the nation and the individual, nature’s beauty and war’s cruelty, love and separation. For months, Soviet forces are driven back inexorably by the German advance eastward and eventually Stalingrad is all that remains between the invaders and victory. The city stands on a cliff-top by the Volga river. The battle for Stalingrad – a maelstrom of violence and firepower – will reduce it to ruins. But it will also be the cradle of a new sense of hope. Stalingrad is a magnificent novel not only of war but of all human life: its subjects are mothers and daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political officers, steelworkers, tractor girls. It is tender, epic, and a testament to the power of the human spirit.
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Bogdanov Aleksander David J. Rowley Intr. And Ed.
The Philosophy Of Living Experience: Popular Outlines: Historical Materialism Volume 111
8vo. Paperback.The Philosophy of Living Experience is the single best introduction to the thought of Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928), a Russian polymath who was co-founder, with Lenin, of the Bolshevik Party. His landmark achievements are Empiriomonism (1904-6), a philosophy of radical empiricism that he developed to replace what he considered to be the crude materialism of contemporary Marxists, and Tektology: Universal Organisational Science (1912-17), a precursor of cybernetics and systems theory. The Philosophy of Living Experience (1913) was written at a transitional point between them.
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Viola Lynne
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
8vo, hardcover in dj, 304pp. In Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial, Lynne Viola, a professor of history at the University of Toronto, recounts statistics that still defy belief ... Viola writes [in] words with renewed significance in today's politically volatile, polarized climate. (LA Review of Books) Fascinating and compact ... Viola's pioneering study helps us understand Soviet perpetrators in the particular. But it also provides crucial lessons about authoritarianism in general and the violence of the security forces that protect it. (Norman M. Naimark, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review) A research tour de force from one of the leading historians of Stalinism, shedding remarkable new light on what happened at the end of the Great Purges. A 'must read' for scholars and students of the Soviet period. (Sheila Fitzpatrick, author of Everyday Stalinism) This book is exceptional among the voluminous scholarship on Stalin's terror. Lynne Viola has written a fascinating and valuable work. The voices of those hangmen who ultimately became victims of the terror, as well as those they arrested, provide a stark picture of the Great Terror. The author explores the banality of evil in the Stalinist context: from the daily routine of torture and murder emerges the familiar figure of the self-righteous criminal. (Oleg V. Khlevniuk, author of Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator) Stalinist Perpetrators draws back the curtain on how the Stalinist Terror actually operated?not just how the state ordered it, but how it happened in provincial offices and prison cells. Her subject is the 'purge of the purgers,' the trial and often execution of the men responsible for the Terror. The nature of her source material?voluminous case files on these accused individuals?allows her to reconstruct the process and practices of the Stalinist Terror, including the beatings and torture, at the level of individuals, both in Kyiv and in more mundane provincial cities. (Peter Holquist, author of Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia's Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921) The Stalinist purges of the late 1930s stand as one of the most horrific episodes of state terror in the twentieth century. Yet the perpetrators of those crimes have remained anonymous for many decades, protected mainly by the rules of historical access in Russia. Now, Lynne Viola, working in Ukrainian archives, provides the first remarkable study of the perpetrators. In this groundbreaking book, we see for the first time who these individuals were, their backgrounds, what brought them to their position of life and death decisions, what life was like for them and their families during such a time. Most important, Viola examines with keen and dispassionate acumen how Stalin's murderers justified the torture and killing of hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens. This is a disturbing book, and one that needs to be read. (David Shearer, author of Stalin and the Lubianka: A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922-1953)
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Waterlow, Jonathan
It's Only a Joke, Comrade!: Humour, Trust and Everyday Life under Stalin
8vo, pp.308. 'A stunningly original study of Stalinist society... Waterlow’s fresh and fluent style crackles with wit and perception... Essential reading for anyone interested in how human beings navigate a path through times of extraordinary upheaval, privation and danger' – Daniel Beer, author of The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars 'An extraordinary achievement. Jonathan Waterlow has found a unique lens into Stalinist society through this brilliant exploration of humor.' – Ronald Grigor Suny, author of The Soviet Experiment 'Re-vitalizes our understanding of Soviet society' – Lynne Viola, author of The Unknown Gulag 'Jonathan Waterlow’s fascinating book is, however, a pioneering historical study of the genre, unique in its sensitivity to the social context in which jokes circulated. Drawing on extensive unpublished material from archives, it captures the contrary functions of these small comic narratives, as instruments of social solidarity and not just of subversion. It is also, as any book about jokes should be, lively, engaging, and at times very funny. A must read for anyone interested in Soviet or indeed Russian culture.' – Catriona Kelly, author of Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction 'The best book on Stalinism I've read in a long time' – S.A. Smith, author of The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction 'A revelatory account of how ordinary citizens experienced Stalinism. Essential reading.' – Andy Willimott, author of Living the Revolution 'One of those rare books that not only has to be read by scholars in the field, but is also accessible to a wide readership. Indeed it is an essential read for anybody who wants to get beyond standard views of the "communist joke" and understand what humour really tells us about life under this extraordinary regime' – David Priestland, author of The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World '...gives us a powerful insight into the way societies function at times of great stress and into the nature of humanity itself.' – Peter Waldron, Former President of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies 'To breathtaking effect, Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin tapped into the relentlessly dark humour to be found in the USSR at its paranoid peak. Now, Jonathan Waterlow has picked up the baton, exploring the kind of jokes that flourished in Soviet society to help people cope with the uncertainty and despair of living under an authoritarian regime where reality could change overnight. Tracing how traditional strands of Russian humour adapted to the new era, he discovers that the country couldn’t be neatly split into believers and dissidents. Most citizens were somewhere in between, and making sense of that grey area is what excites Waterlow, particularly when the official version and personal experience intersected and engaged with each other. Thanks to the records of a Soviet Commission on satire, he can tell us what the regime thought of the jokers too. Waterlow provides insight into a people who, more than 25 years after the collapse of the USSR, still remain an enigma.' – The Herald
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Popoff Alexandra
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp. 395. If Vasily Grossman’s 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the twentieth century. Always at the epicenter of events, Grossman (1905–1964) was among the first to describe the Holocaust and the Ukrainian famine. His 1944 article “The Hell of Treblinka” became evidence at Nuremberg. Grossman’s powerful anti-totalitarian works liken the Nazis’ crimes against humanity with those of Stalin. His compassionate prose has the everlasting quality of great art. Because Grossman’s major works appeared after much delay we are only now able to examine them properly. Alexandra Popoff’s authoritative biography illuminates Grossman’s life and legacy.
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Brjusov Valerij
Gli Ultimi Martiri
8vo, br. ed. Gli ultimi martiri (Antologia) Traduzione di Aldo Ferrari pag. 5 Introduzione (Introduzione) di Aldo Ferrari pag. 17 La Repubblica della Croce del Sud (Racconto, Respublika Juznogo Kresta) di Valerij Brjusov Traduzione di Aldo Ferrari pag. 45 Gli ultimi martiri (Racconto, Poslednie muceniki) di Valerij Brjusov Traduzione di Aldo Ferrari pag. 63 INDICE
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Nikitin Nikolai
Night and Other Stories
8vo, original orange cloth, ex library, ow. very good. Ex-Library
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Mecacci Luciano
Besprizornye. Bambini randagi nella Russia sovietica (1917-1935)
8vo, br. ed. pp.274. Tra gli orrori di cui la storia del Novecento è stata prodiga, pochi sono paragonabili alla condizione dei besprizornye, come venivano chiamati nella Russia postrivoluzionaria gli innumerevoli bambini e ragazzini rimasti orfani in seguito alla guerra, alla guerra civile o alla carestia. Stimati tra i sei e i sette milioni nel 1921, sporchi, vestiti di stracci, vagavano da soli o in gruppi per le città e le campagne in cerca di cibo, spostandosi nel paese aggrappati alle balestre sotto i vagoni dei treni, trovando riparo dal gelo negli scantinati delle stazioni o dentro i cassonetti, spinti dalla fame a un crescendo di aggressività e violenza che arrivava fino al cannibalismo. Né potevano offrire un'alternativa a quella vita gli orfanotrofi pubblici: strutture, in tutto simili ai lager che di lì a poco sarebbero sorti per altri scopi, dove bambini scheletrici giacevano ammassati in condizioni spaventose. E se negli anni Venti il problema viene studiato sul piano sociale, politico, giudiziario, psicologico ed educativo, in seguito saranno imposti il silenzio e la censura da parte di uno Stato che non può certo ammettere un simile sfacelo nel 'paradiso' della società sovietica. Negli ultimi trent'anni il fenomeno è tornato oggetto di analisi e rigorose ricerche storiche. Luciano Mecacci è riuscito, grazie a testimonianze dirette e documenti dell'epoca spesso trascurati, a offrirne una ricostruzione completa anche dall'interno, calandosi - e calandoci - nell'abisso psicologico e umano dei protagonisti di vicende che possono sembrare, oggi, semplicemente inverosimili.
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Cvetaeva Marina
L'accalappiatopi. Testo russo a Fronte
8vo, br. e. pp.330. Composto negli anni dell'emigrazione fra Praga e Parigi, "L'accalappiatopi" è l'ultimo poema di Marina Cvetaeva ispirato a un motivo del folclore, la leggenda del Pifferaio magico. Ammaliati dal suono del flauto - seduzione femminile della Musica - i topi sognano di una rivoluzione mondiale in un'India favolosa. Seguono il Pifferaio incantati da miraggi d'Oriente. Incalzante il ritmo del flauto e dell'intero poema, musica demònica che conduce alla morte non-morte nel regno della libertà. L'originale interpretazione della fiaba vuole che i topi siano salvati dall'imborghesimento e i bambini di Hameln sottratti per sempre all'orrore della ripetizione. Il loro esodo verso una terra promessa, Paradiso della Poesia, Eden e Sesamo, avviene in un tripudio di azzurro, mitico colore dell'Anima romantica. Il tema nordico del Pifferaio magico è il pretesto che Marina Cvetaeva coglie per orchestrare le aspre dissonanze di una "satira lirica" contro il filisteismo. "L'Accalappiatopi" esprime l'antinomia fondamentale della sua poetica: il conflitto tra l'Anima-Poesia e il corpo, ovvero il quotidiano, che esige dal poeta la resa assoluta. Così avvenne per Majakovskij, per Cvetaeva, Esenin, poeti "dissipati"dalla propria generazione. Lo scontro si dinamizza nel tessuto poetico, dispiegato lungo un ampio registro, che alterna toni alti e bassi, dizione biblica e modi colloquiali o gergali.
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Grossman Joan Delaney
Valery Bryusov and the Riddle of Russian Decadence
8vo, original cloth (no dust jacket). ex library with stamps and labels, ow. good . bibliography. xii, 397p., scattered period photos and facsimiles, first edition Included in rear section of book is a 33-page section consisting of Bryusov's 'Stephanos' (1906), containing 'The Idols' Eternal Truth.' The poems are written in both Russian and English, side-by-side. 397 pages. Ex-Library
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Cvetaeva Marina
Il Diavolo
8vo, br. ed. pp-x-162 scritti autobiografici.
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Cvetaeva Marina
Sette Poemi Testo Russo a Fronte
16mo, br. ed. 299pp. «Tracciare una Storia di Marina per Poemi. Seguendo il filo delle grandi composizioni degli anni Venti cui lei stessa affida il significato di massima testimonianza spirituale; col desiderio di cogliere in questo affresco di splendore e afflizione, affollato di tutti i suoi fantasmi, l'essenza di un mondo interiore sterminato. "Sette Poemi" scelti tra i complessivi ventuno e appartenenti alla prima fase dell'emigrazione, quando la Russia sovietica è alle spalle e Elabuga di là da venire; tramati di premonizioni e consonanze oniriche, e sorretti da una retorica di nuovissimo conio, da un sentimento fratello a quello che anima la voce del tribuno Majakovskij. A questi canti il respiro emotivo della singola lirica va stretto, e Cvetaeva trova l'orizzonte loro piú acconcio nella cornice distesa del poema. Quando Boris Pasternak addita «il tendere al poema» di tutti i cicli cvetaeviani, coglie il sottile crinale che corre tra i due versanti: se virtualmente ogni sua costellazione di liriche aspira a farsi poema, il passaggio si realizza solo laddove il disegno complessivo giunga alla perfetta coerenza di forma e temi. Inanellati uno sull'altro, i Poemi degli anni Venti traboccano di reciproche risonanze, vibrano degli stessi, elettrici impulsi, dominati come sono dalla volontà di oltrepassare le barriere della finzione per generare accadimenti e incontri palpabili, porre riparo a eventi già occorsi, istituire orizzonti inediti.» (dall'Introduzione di Paola Ferretti)
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Cvetaeva Marina
Una Serata Non Terrestre
16mo br, ed. 115pp. "Io non amo la vita in quanto tale", scriveva Marina Cvetaeva, "per me essa comincia ad avere un significato, cioè a trovare senso e peso, solo trasfigurata, ovvero nell'arte". E Marina Cvetaeva ha voluto che l'intera sua esistenza - pur sprofondata nelle peggiori crudeltà dell'epoca, e pur irrimediabilmente segnata dalle sue stesse personali tragedie - dalla tragica morte per denutrizione di una delle sue figlie, all'uccisione del marito, fino al suo stesso suicidio -, venisse trasfigurata nell'arte. Nelle prose inedite riunite in questo volume, la Cvetaeva si racconta, ma le sue non sono semplici pagine autobiografiche, dal momento che, come scriveva a Boris Pasternak , "la vita quotidiana è tradimento: dell'anima. Tradire con l'anima la vita dei giorni - credo di non aver fatto altro nella mia vita". L'intento di Marina è semmai quello di controbattere, con un proprio passato rivisto e corretto dal mito dell'arte, un tempo presente del tutto inaccettabile e indegno: tempo di esilio, di solitudine, di perdita, di cancellazione. E a questa cancellazione che in primo luogo si oppongono queste pagine della Cvetaeva, che vede l'intero suo mondo sempre più travolto, come quella Germania divenuta paese nemico e che per lei era stata e rimaneva sinonimo di libertà: la patria di Bach, di Heine, di Goethe... Tra Germania, Francia e Russia, Marina dissemina i suoi ricordi, le sue esperienze, soprattutto i suoi sentimenti...
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Dunham Vera S.
In Stalin's Time: Middleclass Values in Soviet Fiction
8vo, original fed cloth, ex library stamps and labels, ow. very good Ex-Library
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Voznesenkij Andrej
Antimondi
8vo, rela ed. in sovracoperta trasparente, perfetto stato di conservazione.
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Banine
I Miei Giorni Nel Caucaso
8vo, br. ed. pp.302. Baku, 1905. Nascere in una famiglia scandalosamente ricca - il capostipite, Assadullah, nato contadino, morì milionario grazie al petrolio zampillato dal suo campo pieno di sassi - ma allo stesso tempo altrettanto stravagante e popolata da loschi individui, porta con sé sicuri privilegi e indubbi grattacapi. Ultima di quattro sorelle, Banine viene alla luce in un giorno d'inverno movimentato da scioperi, pogrom e altre manifestazioni del genio umano. Nonostante questo, la sua infanzia trascorre felice, allietata dalle torte rigonfie di crema di Fräulein Anna, balia tedesca, e dalle perenni recriminazioni in azero della nonna paterna, una creatura stupefacente, un gigante sbucato da una fiaba di Perrault. Ogni anno la famiglia trascorre diversi mesi in campagna. La casa è grande, eppure a malapena sufficiente a ospitare l'orda che la invade in primavera: la temibile nonna con le sue innumerevoli serve; la figlia maggiore con il marito, la minore senza marito; i loro cinque figli, terrore di Fräulein Anna, bugiardi, ladri, spioni e quant'altro; infine, il figlio più piccolo della nonna, l'infantile e allegro zio Ibrahim, ancora celibe. Là dove i doveri diminuiscono, la libertà cresce, il tempo favorisce i giochi - le zie sono tutte avide giocatrici di poker, passione che coltivano assieme a quella per la maldicenza - e, soprattutto, le liti. Nella famiglia di Banine i litigi hanno infatti un ruolo fondamentale, e per due ragioni: una è da attribuire al temperamento violento e naturalmente predisposto alla lite di tutti i suoi membri; l'altra è l'eredità. La famosa, eterna, inafferrabile eredità, quella che bisogna dividere dopo la morte del capostipite. Questa vita di splendori e baruffe è tuttavia destinata a subire un drastico mutamento. La Rivoluzione d'Ottobre porterà il caos nel Caucaso, una dittatura militare, dominata dagli armeni, prenderà il potere a Baku e darà la caccia ai ricchi azeri, costringendo Banine e la sua famiglia a una precipitosa fuga... Memoir animato da un irresistibile humour, "I miei giorni nel Caucaso" ritrae la vita e il mondo che rendevano un tempo attraenti le rive del Caspio.
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