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Johnston Timothy
Being Soviet (Identity, Rumour, and Everyday Life under Stalin 1939-1953)
8vo. 6 illustrations. ISBN: 0199604037 Pages: 292 . adopts a refreshing and innovative approach to the years between the Nazi-Soviet Pact and Stalin's death in the USSR. Timothy Johnston draws on newspapers, films, plays, and popular music in order to examine the changing nature of Soviet identity in this era. He pays particular attention to the evolution of Britain and America from wartime allies to Cold War enemies. Being Soviet then explores how ordinary citizens related to this official version of Soviet identity. It examines that question via the rumours, jazz music, hairstyles, jokes, anti-war campaigns, and sexual relationships of the time. Johnston argues that these 'everyday' activities defined Soviet identity for the man on the street in the USSR. At the heart of the book is a sustained critique of the current emphasis on 'supporters' or 'resistors' of the regime. Johnston suggests that the shadow of Foucault looms too large in the history of Stalinism. The relationship between Soviet citizens and Soviet power was defined by the subtle tactics of everyday living. For many, life was not defined by 'belief' or 'unbelief' but rather the constant struggle to stay fed, informed, and entertained. This more nuanced approach offers a rich and textured image of what it meant to be Soviet in Stalin's least years.
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PALMER James
The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia (ISBN:0465022073)
8vo, 270pp. two canceled ex library stamps, ow in excellent condition. life of the white russian baron ungern-sternberg, maps Ex-Library
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Thubron Colin
In Siberia
br. ed. A Ekaterinburg, dove è stato ucciso lo zar Nicola II con la sua famiglia, inizia il viaggio di Thubron in Siberia, attraverso la Mongolia e poi a Est verso il Pacifico muovendosi tra i popoli che più hanno risentito della fine del regime comunista e della frantumazione dell'impero sovietico. Thubron ha incontrato buddisti e animisti, sette cristiane, comunisti e reazionari, ha visitato il villaggio di Rasputin, le tombe degli antichi Sciti e il Bajkal, il lago più profondo del mondo.
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Spendel Giovanna
La mosca degli anni Venti. Sogni e utopie di una generazione (ISBN:9788835947547)
8vo. br.cop.fig.a col. cm.17,5x22, pp.220, oltre 300 ill.e tavv.bn.nt. Coll.Capitali della cultura.
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Morton, Miriam, Foreword by Ruth Hill Viguers
A Harvest of Russian Children's Literature. a Treasury for All Ages.
4ti, 486pp.ex-library stamps and sticker, ow very good. Ex-Library
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Balina, Marina; Goscilo, Helena and Lipovetsky, Mark
Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales
8vo Paperback. Book Condition: New. 229 x 152 mm. A compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical texts that show how the Russian fairy tale acquired political and historical meanings during the Soviet era We were born to make fairy tales come true. As one of Stalinism's more memorable slogans, this one suggests that the fairy tale figured in Soviet culture as far more than a category of children's literature. How much more-and how cannily Russian fairy tales reflect and interpret Soviet culture, especially in its utopian ambitions-becomes clear for the first time in Politicizing Magic, a compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical texts that demonstrate the degree to which ancient fairy-tale fantasies acquired political and historical meanings during the catastrophic twentieth century.Introducing Western readers to the most representative texts of Russian folkloric and literary tales, this book documents a rich exploration of this colorful genre through all periods of Soviet literary production (1920-1985) by authors with varied political and aesthetic allegiances. Here are traditional Russian folkloric tales and transformations of these tales that, adopting the didacticism of Soviet ideology, proved significant for the official discourse of Socialist Realism. Here, too, are narratives produced during the same era that use the fairy-tale paradigm as a deconstructive device aimed at the very underpinnings of the Soviet system. The editors' introductory essays acquaint readers with the fairy-tale paradigm and the permutations it underwent within the utopian dream of Soviet culture, deftly placing each-from traditional folklore to fairy tales of Socialist Realism, to real-life events recast as fairy tales for ironic effect-in its literary, historical, and political contex
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Curie Eva
Diario di guerra. Da New york a Chungking via Mosca
8vo, br. ed. bandelle, pp.672. . Durante la seconda guerra mondiale l'autrice, figlia della grande scienziata, fu corrispondente per l'Herald Tribune dall'Egitto, Persia, Russia, Cina, India, ecc.
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Coxe William
Account of the Russian Discoveries Between Asia and America, to Which Are Added, the Conquest of Siberia, and the History of the Transactions and Commerce Between Russia and China, the Third Edition, Revised and Corrected
3 parts in one volume, 8vo hardcover 4 large folding maps by T. Kitchin and one folding plate by I. Cheevers. "The Reverend William Coxe was an English historian who travelled widely in Europe and Russia. During a stay in St. Petersburg, Coxe researched recent Russian discoveries between Asia and America, which resulted in the present work. He endeavoured to collect the journals of several voyages subsequent to Bering's 1741 expedition, with which Gerard Friedrich Muller had concluded his account of the first Russian navigations. Coxe recounts the principal Russian discoveries and explorations made in northwestern America in their attempts to open communications with Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. The voyages and discoveries of Nevodsikoff, Serebranikoff, Trapesnikoff, Pushkareff, Drusinin, Kulkoff, Korovin, Glotoff, Solovioff, Otcheredin, Krenitzin, Levasheff, Synd, Bering, Chirikiv, and several others are included.Coxe made suggestions which led the Russians to promote expeditions of discovery to the northern parts of Siberia. Notable in the present work are a useful bibliography and pertinent observations on the fur trade between the Russians and the Chinese" (Hill)
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Hellbeck Jochen
Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin
8vo cloth in mylar protected dj pasted to the hardcover , ex library but very good, internally no marks and no signs Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 436 pp., including index. With a few black and white photos.Drawing from diaries of various Russian citizens, including artists, intellectuals, students and housewives, Hellbeck explores how through the defiant act of keeping personal thoughts in a diary, the average Russian citizen could escape the oppressiveness of Stalin's regime
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Finn, Peter; Couvée, Petra
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
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Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
L'Empire d'Eurasie : Une histoire de l'Empire russe de 1552 à nos Jours
8vo, couv rigide, pp.491- " Tout empire est condamné à périr ! " Celui de Russie constitue une extraordinaire exception à cette règle. Dans toute l'histoire des empires il fut l'un des plus vastes. Des plus durables aussi, battu seulement par les empires romain, byzantin et ottoman. Il est le seul qui ait péri (1917) puis se soit reconstitué pour reprendre ses conquêtes. Disparu encore une fois en 1992, il a laissé place à la Russie qui ressemble à maints égards à l'Empire tel qu'il naquit en 1552. Comme celui-ci, la Russie est étendue sur deux continents, l'Europe et l'Asie ; comme lui, elle conserve dans ses frontières une multitude de civilisations et de peuples différents. Comme lui, elle est un État chrétien, mais aussi formé de musulmans et même de bouddhistes ; et comme lui encore, la Russie doit assurer la paix de ce monde si divers. Elle doit aussi décider si elle est un État européen ou si elle est d'Eurasie. L'histoire agitée de cet empire devenu Russie pose une question décisive pour l'avenir du continent appelé Europe et pour celui de l'Union européenne qui s'interroge encore sur ses frontières. L'Eurasie est-elle une nouvelle entité des relations internationales au moment où tous les pays cherchent à rejoindre de grandes formations ? ou bien s'agit-il d'un ensemble déjà dépassé dont chaque composante s'en ira vers l'univers auquel elle appartient : l'Europe ou l'Asie ? Les questions posées par ce livre sont bien au cur de l'actualité géopolitique des prochaines décennies.
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Woll Alexander; Woll, Alexander and Wydra, Harald
Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe
Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies) (ISBN:041542822X) Summary: 1. Introduction: Democracy and Myth in Russia and eastern Europe (Introduction) Harald Wydra 2. Mythology and the Trickster: Interpreting Communism Agnes Horvath 3. The Non-Being of Communism and Myths of Democratisation Arpad Szakolczai 4. The Power of Second Reality: Communist Myths and Representations of Democracy Harald Wydra 5. 'Mazepa' as a Symbolic Figure of Ukrainian Autonomy Thomas Grob 6. Misoteutonic Myths: Lopping Noses in Hussite Nationalism and Love's Sweet Cure Robert Pynsent 7. The Myth of the Dialogue of Myths: Russia and Europe Walter Koschmal 8. Myths and Democratic Attitudes in Poland and Russia: an Intermedial Comparison Alexander Wll 9. Contested Traditions? The Democratic Uses of Three National Holidays in Contemporary Hungary Heino Nyyssnen 10. The Paradox of Infra-Liberalism: Towards a Genealogy of 'Managed Democracy' in Putin's Russia Sergei Prozorov 11. Myth and Democratic Identity in Putin's Russia. Richard Sakwa.
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Vitale Serena
Il defunto odiava i Pettegolezzi
8vo, br. ed. bandelle. Mosca, 14 aprile 1930. Intorno alle undici del mattino i telefoni si mettono a suonare tutti insieme, come indemoniati, diffondendo "l'oceanica notizia" del suicidio di Vladimir Majakovskij: uno sparo al cuore, che immediatamente trasporta il poeta nella costellazione delle giovani leggende. Per alcuni quella fine appare come un segno: è morta l'utopia rivoluzionaria. Ma c'è anche il coro dei filistei: si è ucciso perché aveva la sifilide; perché era oppresso dalle tasse; perché in questo modo i suoi libri andranno a ruba. E ci sono l'imbarazzo e l'irritazione della nomenklatura di fronte a quella "stupida, pusillanime morte", inconciliabile con la gioia di Stato. Ma che cosa succede davvero quella mattina nella minuscola stanza di una 'kommunalka' dove Majakovskij è da poco arrivato in compagnia di una giovane e bellissima attrice, sua amante? Studiando con acribia e passione le testimonianze dei contemporanei, i giornali dell'epoca, i documenti riemersi dagli archivi dopo il 1991 (dai verbali degli interrogatori ai "pettegolezzi" raccolti da informatori della polizia politica), sfatando le varie, pittoresche congetture formulate nel tempo, Serena Vitale ha ricostruito quello che ancora oggi è considerato, in Russia, uno dei grandi misteri - fu davvero suicidio? dell'epoca sovietica. E regala al lettore un romanzo-indagine che è anche un fervido omaggio a Majakovskij, realizzazione del suo estremo desiderio: parlare ai posteri - e "ai secoli, alla storia, al creato" -in versi.
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Messina Isabella
La cena delle anime morte. Gogol e la cucina Russa
8vo, br. ed. pp.112. Grande affresco ottocentesco, Le anime morte sono la prima e unica parte rimastaci di un poema in prosa che, seguendo il protagonista nel suo peregrinare attraverso la sterminata provincia russa, ritrae un'epoca. A ogni tappa un personaggio, un interno e una cena che rivela, più di ogni altra cosa, caratteri, inclinazioni, vizi e speranze dei commensali e della comunità locale. Gogol - il "Balzac russo", come lo definì Tolstoj, o il Petronio moderno - proprio attraverso il cibo e i suoi rituali compone una serie di ritratti indelebili di una società indolentemente adagiata sul limite del baratro.
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Hérodote, revue de géographie et de géopolitique n°54-55: les marches de la Russie
Hérodote, n° 54-55, 4è trimestre 1989, 345 pp., broché
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Woodham Smith, Cecil
La Carica Dei 600, Balaclava
In 8°, t.t. edit., pp. 324,(4), con num. ill. b.n. in tavv. f.t. e nel t.; prima ed. La storia della Brigata di cavalleria leggera di Sua Maestà Britannica e dei suoi cavalleggeri mandati a morire e a coprirsi di gloria nella Valle della Morte durante la guerra di Crimea (1854-55) fra inglesi, francesi, italiani, turchi e russi.
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Susan Tumarkin Goodman (Autore), Jens Hoffmann (Autore), Alexander Lavrentiev (Collaboratore)
The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film
4to,pp.238. Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modernity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the modernist photojournalism of Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson, Soviet photographers were not only in the vanguard of style and technological innovation but also radical in their integration of art and politics. Filmmakers such as Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, and Esfir Shub pioneered cinematic techniques for works intended to mobilize viewers. Covering the period from the Revolution to the beginning of World War II, The Power of Pictures considers Soviet avant-garde photography and film in the context of political history and culture. Three essays trace this generation of artists, their experiments with new media, and their pursuit of a new political order. A wealth of stunning photographs, film stills, and film posters, as well as magazine and book designs, demonstrate that their output encompassed a spectacular range of style, content, and perspective, and an extraordinary sense of the power of the photograph to change the world.
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by Lawrence Harrison (Editor), Eugene Yasin (Editor), Evgeny Yasin (Editor)
Culture Matters in Russia and Everywhere: Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
8vo, hardcover èè.582. This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can happen through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. This is a superb compendium for anyone wanting to understand the vital role cultural values play in the achievements and failures of any tribe, society, or nation. Only Lawrence Harrison could have brought together thirty-nine of the world's preeminent experts in human culture to present their work at this historic Moscow Conference. Thanks to Harrison, these are all now captured in this book. Among presenters, Russia's former Minister of Economic Development, Eygeny Yasin, now Academic Supervisor at the Higher School of Economics, led a group of eight prominent Russians. Their excellent papers (chapters in the book) cover: the role of the Orthodox church; the status of Russia's market economy; Russians' views on work; entrepreneurship; private property; security; stability; and other cultural values important in that country-and in all the others as well. -- Steven Pease, author of The Golden Age of Jewish Achievement and co-chair of the US-Russia Foundation Lawrence Harrison has been a pioneer in applying a cultural perspective to intractable questions of economic and political development. His most famous early work was on Latin America, and now he asks similarly penetrating questions about Russia's present and future. It is a topic of enormous significance, and the chapters in this volume are clarifying and stimulating. -- James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly About the Author Lawrence Harrison is visiting scholar, retired, at Tufts University's Fletcher School and author of Jews, Confucians, and Protestants: Cultural Capital and the End of Multiculturalism. Evgeny Yasin is academic supervisor at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics and author of Will Democracy Survive in Russia?
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Zaslavsky Victor
Il consenso organizzato. La società sovietica negli anni di Breznev
in-16°, pp. 221. Bross. edit.piccolo timbro di app. altrimenti ottimo.
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Popel Nikolai
I Carri Avanzano All'ovest
In 8°, t.t. edit. ill. con sovrac. in acetato, pp. 416,(4), con una cartina geogr. più volte ripieg. in fondo al volume
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Zveteremich Pietro a cura di
Canzoni Russe Di Protesta
In 16, pp. 153. Bross.ed.
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Jakobson Roman, Curatore: Tzvetan Todorov Traduzione di: Valeria Sperti :
Russia Follia Poesia
8vo, br. ed.con sovracoperta Collana: Volume 24 di Saggi 217 pagine; 23 cm Parole e frasi comuni Afanas'ev alcuni Aljagrov Aussicht Belinskij Bettina von Arnim Brik caratteristici Chlebnikov Christoph Theodor Schwab cimice costante dialogo Diotima Dostoevskij Ejchenbaum emistichio esempio Evgenij favole russe fiaba fiaba russa folclore russo formalismo francese Francia futuristi giorno Hòlderlin intrecci Iperione Jakobson KATANJAN Kostrov kovskij Krucènych lavoro Leningrad lettera letteraria letteratura russa lettere lingua linguaggio linguistica Majakov Majakovskij Marija mente mondo morte Mosca Moskva narratore Nette nome nuovo nuvola in pantaloni Onegin opere orale Parigi parlare parole periodo persona poema poesia lirica poesia russa poesie di Hòlderlin poeta poetica problema proprio pubblicato Puskin puskiniana racconto ricordi rivolta decabrista rivoluzione romanzo ruolo Scardanelli schizofrenia scritta scrittori russi scrive semplice Sezione Aurea simbolismo sione skazki skij Sklovskij sovietica strofa studio Tat'jana tema termine testo Tolstoj trad tradizione tratta trova Trubeckoj Turgenev Tzvetan Todorov veduta Velimir Chlebnikov verso Vladimir Vladimir Majakovskij Waiblinger xvm secolo Zinaida Gippius
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Donovan James B,
La verità Sul Caso Abel (la Storia Vera Che Ha Ispirato Il Film Il Ponte Delle Spie
Traduzione di Di Giuro V. Milano, 2015 ;8vo, ril.,sovracop. con fascetta editoriale pp. 380. (Saggi). La mattina del 10 febbraio 1962, James Donovan è in missione sulla Glienicker Brücke, il celebre ponte delle spie che collega Berlino Ovest con l'Est comunista. Al suo fianco c'è Rudolf Abel, la più misteriosa ed efficiente spia del XX secolo, per anni clandestinamente negli Stati Uniti a capo dell'intelligence russa. Dall'altra parte del ponte, i sovietici tengono in ostaggio Francis Powers, il pilota di un U-2 americano abbattuto mentre era in volo segreto sull'URSS: Donovan ha ricevuto dal presidente Kennedy l'incarico di riportarlo in patria a ogni costo. La verità sul caso Rudolf Abel ci catapulta nelle drammatiche giornate vissute per realizzare lo scambio di prigionieri, nelle lunghe e pericolose trattative diplomatiche, nei momenti concitati e avventurosi della guerra fredda tra due blocchi con le armi costantemente puntate
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Ulitskaya Ludmila
Una Storia Russa
8vo, br. ed. sovracop. "Una storia russa" racconta la storia di tre compagni di scuola che si incontrano a Mosca negli anni cinquanta: un poeta rimasto orfano, un fragile ma molto dotato pianista e un fotografo in erba con il grande talento di collezionare segreti. Tutti e tre si fanno strada verso l'età adulta in una società dove il loro eroi sono stati censurati se non esiliati. Un racconto pieno di passioni e intrighi, questo romanzo è un ritratto della vita dopo Stalin e un'indagine drammatica che scandaglia integrità individuale in una società governata dal KGB. I protagonisti cercano di trascendere l'oppressione del regime attraverso l'arte, l'amore per la letteratura russa e l'attivismo. E ciascuno di loro finisce per ritrovarsi faccia a faccia con la polizia segreta, estremamente pronta a fomentare paranoia, sospetti e tradimenti. Il romanzo di Ludmila Ulitskaya prosegue la tradizione dei grandi autori russi, da Dostoevskij a Tolstoj fino a Pasternak: un'opera che brucia di politica, amore e fede, un inno alla vita anche nei momenti più oscuri.
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Van Buskirk, Emily
Lydia Ginzburg's Prose: Reality in Search of Literature
8vo, 355 pages. The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to be the extensive prose fragments, composed for the desk drawer, in which she analyzed herself and other members of the Russian intelligentsia through seven traumatic decades of Soviet history. In this book, the first full-length English-language study of the writer, Emily Van Buskirk presents Ginzburg as a figure of previously unrecognized innovation and importance in the literary landscape of the twentieth century. Based on a decade's work in Ginzburg's archives, the book discusses previously unknown manuscripts and uncovers a wealth of new information about the author's life, focusing on Ginzburg's quest for a new kind of writing adequate to her times. She writes of universal experiences--frustrated love, professional failures, remorse, aging--and explores the modern fragmentation of identity in the context of war, terror, and an oppressive state. Searching for a new concept of the self, and deeming the psychological novel (a beloved academic specialty) inadequate to express this concept, Ginzburg turned to fragmentary narratives that blur the lines between history, autobiography, and fiction. This full account of Ginzburg's writing career in many genres and emotional registers enables us not only to rethink the experience of Soviet intellectuals, but to arrive at a new understanding of writing and witnessing during a horrific century.
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Rossi Jacques
Qu'elle était belle cette utopie ! Chroniques du goulag
8vo, br. ed. Né en France en 1909, Jacques Rossi passera 19 ans au Goulag. Français et agent du Komintern en Espagne pendant la guerre civile, Jacques Rossi est rappelé à Moscou en 1937. Happé dans le mécanisme des purges, il est condamné sans procès à huit ans de travaux de redressement pour "espionnage au profit de la France et de la Pologne". En 1948, sa qualité de "contre-révolutionnaire" lui vaudra une rallonge de dix ans. Il sera libéré en 1956 après le congrès. Ces quelque vingt années au goulag dont pas fait de Jacques Rossi un homme amer mais un homme libre à jamais, terriblement lucide, dont l'humour noir ravageur va déconcerter plus d'un lecteur. Ne dit-il pas que ce séjour dans les bagnes soviétiques, qu'il qualifie de "laboratoires de sociologie appliquée", a été l'occasion unique d'observer le système soviétique à nu, sans masque. Dans ses récits, Jacques Rossi nous décrit l'univers du goulag au quotidien. Son témoignage hallucinant est servi par une écriture d'où est exclue toute sensiblerie. Il nous donne à voir l'humanité souffrante au travers des existences mutilées, brisées de femmes et d'hommes dont le seul crime, aux yeux du régime stalinien, était pour la plupart d'être nés. Un livre essentiel pour qui veut comprendre comment une utopie fut dévoyée en une barbarie qui fit des millions de victimes.
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Ciuikov Vasili
LA BATTAGLIA DI STALINGRADO-
8vo pp.380. legat. edit. buono.
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Blakesley Rosalind P., Tatiana L. Karpova
Russia and the Arts
4to, br. ed. 290 x 230 mm. Language: English Brand New Book. Russian portraiture enjoyed a golden age between the late 1860s and the First World War. While Tolstoy and Dostoevsky were publishing masterpieces such as Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov and Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov were taking Russian music to new heights, Russian art was developing a new self-confidence. The penetrating Realism of the 1870s and 1880s was later complemented by the brighter hues of Russian Impressionism and the bold, faceted forms of Symbolist painting. In providing a context, author Rosalind P. Blakesley looks in the first and second chapters at the portrait tradition in Russia: the rise of secular portrait painting following the founding of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg in 1757; the shifting tastes of patrons and publics; the reception of portraits in exhibitions and collections (including those of the tsars); and the role of portraiture in the cultural politics of imperial Russia. Starting with the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1867, at which a distinct Russian school of painting was recognised for the first time, the third chapter examines developments in theatre and music, the rising Realist aesthetic and the powerful voices of wealthy patrons from the worlds of industry and commerce, such as Pavel Tretyakov. Chapter Four looks at the rise of novel forms of visual expression through experimentation, from Impressionism to Symbolism, and the World of Art Movement, with its conscious reconnection with artistic developments in the West. The last chapter charts creative responses to political turmoil and social unrest in the early twentieth century, the new artistic societies and manifestos of the avant-garde and the dialogue between figurative painting and abstraction in the twilight of imperial rule.
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Jaeger Pier Giusto
Le mura di Sebastopoli. Gli italiani in Crimea 1855-1856
In-8,legatura editoriale in tutta tela con sovracoperta,pp.382
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Merridale Catherine
Lenin on the Train
8vo, pp.368.By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary extremists, currently safely bottled up in neutral Switzerland, to go home? Catherine Merridale's Lenin on the Train recreates Lenin's extraordinary journey from harmless exile in Zurich, across a Germany falling to pieces from the war's deprivations, and northwards to the edge of Lapland to his eventual ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograd's Finland Station. With great skill and insight Merridale weaves the story of the train and its uniquely strange group of passengers with a gripping account of the now half-forgotten liberal Russian revolution and shows how these events intersected. She brilliantly uses a huge range of contemporary eyewitnesses, observing Lenin as he travelled back to a country he had not seen for many years. Many thought he was a mere 'useful idiot', others thought he would rapidly be imprisoned or killed, others that Lenin had in practice few followers and even less influence. They would all prove to be quite wrong.
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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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