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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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Neumann, Matthias (Editor)/ Willimott, Andy (Editor)
Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide
8vo, br. ed. trade Paperback. 277 pages. 9.21x6.14 inches. The Russian Revolution of 1917 has often been presented as a complete break with the past, with everything which had gone before swept away, and all aspects of politics, economy, and society reformed and made new. Recently, however, historians have increasingly come to question this view, discovering that Tsarist Russia was much more entangled in the processes of modernisation, and that the new regime contained much more continuity than has previously been acknowledged. This book presents new research findings on a range of different aspects of Russian society, both showing how there was much change before 1917, and much continuity afterwards; and also going beyond this to show that the new Soviet regime established in the 1920s, with its vision of the New Soviet Person, was in fact based on a complicated mixture of new Soviet thinking and ideas developed before 1917 by a variety of non-Bolshevik movements. Part I - The New State, The Past, and the People 1. The Problem of Persistence, J. Arch Getty 2. How Revolutionary was Revolutionary Justice? Legal Culture in Russia across the Revolutionary Divide, Matthew Rendle 3. Taking a Leap across the Tsarist Throne: Revolutionizing the Russian Circus, Miriam Neirick 4. The Communist Youth League and the Construction of Soviet obshchestvennost, Matthias Neumann Part II - The People, the Past, and the New State 5. For the People: The Image of Ukrainian Teachers as Public Servants, Matthew Pauly 6. The Woman of Orient is not the Voiceless Slave Anymore - the Non-Russian Women of Volga-Ural Region and `Woman's Question, Yulia Gradskova 7. Devotion and Revolution: Nursing Values, Susan Grant 8. What did Historians do at the Time of the Great Revolution? Vera Kaplan 9. Speaking more than Bolshevik: Pre-Revolutionary Paradigms in Citizens' Humour of the 1930s, Jonathan Waterlow Epilogue: The Russian Tradition? Discourse of Tradition and Modernity, Peter Waldron
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Pljusc Leonid
Nel Carnevale Della Storia
8vo, br. ed. Cm. 13x20, pp. 595, legato in cartoncino edit.le illustrato
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Medvedev Roy
Stalin Sconosciuto
In-16° gr. pp. 269, bross. edit. ill.
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Lynteris Christos
Ethnographic Plague: Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier (ISBN:9781349955626)
8vo, br. ed. Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the configuration of plague at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a focus on research on the Chinese-Russian frontier, where a series of pneumonic plague epidemics shook the Chinese, Russian and Japanese Empires, this book examines how native Mongols and Buryats came to be understood as holding a traditional knowledge of the disease. Exploring the forging and consequences of this alluring theory, this book seeks to understand medical fascination with culture, so as to underline the limitations of the employment of the latter as an explanatory category in the context of infectious disease epidemics, such as the recent SARS and Ebola outbreaks. About the Author: Christos Lynteris is a social anthropologist working on biopolitical and visual aspects of infectious disease epidemics. He is Senior Research Associate at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK, and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council funded project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic. He is also the author of The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China (2012).
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ALEXANDER John T.
Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia: Public Health and Urban Disaster (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)
8vo, original cloth, ex library pocket, nice ex-libris, ow. good. John T. Alexander's study dramatically highlights how the Russian people reacted to the Plague, and shows how the tools of modern epidemiology can illuminate the causes of the plague's tragic course through Russia. Bubonic Plauge in Early Modern Russia makes contributions to many aspects of Russian and European history: social, economic, medical, urban, demographic, and meterological. It is particularly enlightening in its discussion of eighteenth-centuryRussia's emergent medical profession and public health institutions and, overall, should interest scholars in its use of abundant new primary source material from Soviet, German, and British archives. Ex-Library
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Cahen Gaston
Histoire Des Relations De La Russie Avec La Chine Sous Pierre Le Grand 1689-1730
extremely rare anastatic chinese reprint of the alcan paris 1912 ed. wraps, very good 8vo gr.br. pp. 274-ccxix
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Rosenshield Gary
Western Law, Russian Justice: Dostoevsky, the Jury Trial, and the Law (ISBN:9780299209308)
8vo, hardcover, pp. 309. Gary Rosenshield offers a new interpretation of Dostoevsky's greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He explores Dostoevsky's critique and exploitation of the jury trial for his own ideological agenda, both in his journalism and his fiction, contextualizing his portrayal of trials and trial participants (lawyers, jurors, defendants, judges) in the political, social, and ideological milieu of his time. Further, the author presents Dostoevsky's critique in terms of the main notions of the critical legal studies movement in the United States, showing how, over one hundred and twenty years ago, Dostoevsky explicitly dealt with the same problems that the law-and-literature movement has been confronting over the past two decades. This book should appeal to anyone with an interest in Russian literature, Russian history and culture, legal studies, law and literature, narratology, or metafiction and literary theory."Rosenshield has used the current studies of law and literature, and his own serious research into nineteenth-century legal cases, to investigate the puzzling relationship between Dostoevsky's journalism and his fiction. Anyone interested in Dostoevsky, in legal reform anywhere in the world, or in the relation between law and literature will have to read this book."?Robert L. Belknap, Professor Emeritus of Slavic languages & literatures, Columbia UniversityGary Rosenshield is professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Crime and Punishment: The Techniques of the Omniscient Author, Pushkin and the Genres of Madness, published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and numerous scholarly articles.
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Giani Gallino Tilde
La Russia, Grande Madre e piccoli Padri
8vo, br. ed. pp.239. Storia e contemporaneità della grande Russia si squadernano qui, in un intenso viaggio, che racconta, nella lettura dell'autrice, i risvolti psicologici dei grandi zar di ieri fino a Putin. Il libro non vuole essere una esposizione storica, di secolo in secolo, di una nazione come la Russia. L'intento dell'autrice è piuttosto quello di tracciare - in una prospettiva psicologica - un ritratto, o più ritratti, dei luoghi e della stessa immensità di questo Paese, delle sue vicende millenarie, dei popoli e delle persone che vi sono nate e vissute, parte in territori sconfinati, parte nelle città via via costruite. Il quadro si fa più affascinante, o inquietante, a misura che si presentano i protagonisti del passato, le leggende degli eroi, la brutalità dei tiranni, i vinti o i vincitori della storia. Come afferma Lucio Caracciolo nella Prefazione «Tilde Giani Gallino riesce a scavare in profondità nell'anima russa».
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ALGAROTTI FRANCESCO
VIAGGI DI RUSSIA. A CURA DI WILLIAM SPAGGIARI
Legatura editoriale mezza tela, sopracoperta e fascettan 16mo. Tra le opere dell'Algarotti (scrittore tra i piu' rappresentativi del '700 italiano) queste curiose note di viaggio si presentano come un documento notevolissimo per quell'interesse che destava nelle persone colte la Russia dell'epoca. in bellissima edizione.
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Davidson Pamela
Russian Literature and Its Demons
8vo, br. ed. pp.530. Merezhkovsky's bold claim that "all Russian literature is, to a certain degree, a struggle with the temptation of demonism" is undoubtedly justified. And yet, despite its evident centrality to Russian culture, the unique and fascinating phenomenon of Russian literary demonism has so far received little critical attention. This substantial collection fills the gap. A comprehensive analytical introduction by the editor is follwed by a series of fourteen essays, written by eminent scholars in their fields. The first part explores the main shaping contexts of literary demonism: the Russian Orthodox and folk tradition, the demonization of historical figures, and views of art as intrinsically demonic. The second part traces the development of a literary tradition of demonism in the works of authors ranging from Pushkin and Lermontov, Gogol and Dostoevsky, through to the poets and prose writers of modernism (including Blok, Akhmatova, Bely, Sologub, Rozanov, Zamiatin), and through to the end of the 20th century.
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Curtis, William Eleroy
Around the Black Sea: Asia Minor, Armenia, Caucasus, Circassia Daghestan, the Crimea Roumania
8vo. original dark yellow cloth with elaborate white and rose decorated front board. First Edition. pp. 456 The orginal color folding map and 40 b&w unique photographs are intact. An excellent copy. scarce. Contents: cruising in the black sea, trebizond, railway concessions in turkey, caucasus, tiflis, ararat, armenians persecution, massacres of 1909, american missions, caspian oil fields, daghestan, circassians and cossacks, crimea, sevastopol and balaklava, florence nightingale, odessa, new regime in turkey, emancipation of turkish women, robert college and other american schools
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Elliott Geoffrey
From Siberia with Love: A Story of Exile, Revolution and Cigarettes
br. ed. pp.288. In pre-Revolutionary Russia, Geoffrey Elliott's grandfather, David, was taken from rural exile to the brutality of an Irkutsk prison for his involvement with a group of anti-government activists. Here he met Manya, the love of his life, and the two become embroiled in a political protest resulting in raids by the police and the death of three friends. After a long spell in prison, David fled with Manya to London, where he joined the Russian tobacco trade at The House of Sobranie, and the couple started a family. A homesick about-turn took the family back to Siberia - but amidst the turmoil of revolution in 1917, they were forced to flee once more through Asia and Europe to the alien safety of London. Told with great affection, Geoffrey Elliott's compelling history of his extraordinary family is an epic and very human tale of exile, home, and hope for change. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Van Ree Erik
The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: A Study in Twentieth Century Revolutionary Patriotism
8vo, br, ed. 388pp. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. Making full use of the documentation that has recently become available, including Stalin's private library with his handwritten margin notes, the book provides many insights on Stalin, and also on western and Russian Marxist intellectual traditions. Overall, the book argues that Stalin's political thought is not primarily indebted to the Russian autocratic tradition, but belongs to a tradition of revolutionary patriotism that stretches back through revolutionary Marxism to Jacobin thought in the French Revolution. It makes interesting comparisons between Stalin, Lenin, Bukharin and Trotsky, and explains a great deal about the mindset of those brought up in the Stalinist era, and about the era's many key problems, including the industrial revolution from above, socialist cultural policy, Soviet treatment of nationalities, pre-war and Cold War foreign policy, and the purges.
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COCO Lucio
La Biblioteca Di Dostoevskij. La Storia e Il Catalogo
8vo, br. ed. pp. 126. (Piccola Biblioteca Umanistica. 5). La biblioteca di Dostoevskij è una biblioteca perduta. La sua disseminazione cominciò quando lo scrittore era ancora in vita, ad opera di Pavel Isaiev, il figlio della sua prima moglie, che approfittò di un viaggio in Europa dello scrittore per vendere diversi volumi ai bukinisty (i mercatini di seconda mano) di San Pietroburgo. Non stupiranno dunque le vicissitudini di questi libri dopo la morte del loro proprietario. In questo libro si racconta questa diaspora, che alla fine, dai circa seicento volumi riscontrabili nei cataloghi redatti nel corso degli anni dalla vedova Anna Grigorev'na, riduce il fondo a una trentina di volumi e ad alcune copertine e frontespizi superstiti, a testimoniare come il patrimonio librario dostoevskiano abbia avuto un destino duro e severo quanto quello cui le censure di regime o i roghi di libri costrinsero molte opere, tra cui alcune delle sue
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Soldatov Andrei
The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents
8vo, hardcover in dj, 384, From the time of the tsars to the waning days of Communist regime, Russian leaders tried to control the flow of ideas by controlling its citizens' movements. They believed strict limits on travel combined with censorship was the best way to escape the influence of subversive Western ideologies. Yet Russians continued to emigrate westward, both to seek new opportunities and to flee political crises at home. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Russians' presence in Western countries - particularly the United States - has been for the Kremlin both the biggest threat and the biggest opportunity. It sought for years to use the Russian emigre community to achieve Russia's goals - espionage to be sure but also to influence policies and public opinion. Russia's exiles are a potent mix of the very rich and the very driven, some deeply hostile to their homeland and others deeply patriotic. Russia, a vast, insular nation, depends on its emigres - but it cannot always count on them. Celebrated Moscow-based journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan masterfully look at the complex, ever-shifting role of Russian emigres since the October Revolution to the present day. From comely secret agents to tragically doomed dissidents, the story of Russian emigres is at times thrilling, at times touching and always full of intrigue. But their influence and importance is an invaluable angle through which to understand Russia in the modern world.
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Tarabbia Andrea, a Cura Di
Racconti di demoni Russi
8vo, ril. edit. Tra possessioni, sortilegi e forze impure, incubi, ossessioni, violenze e follie, la letteratura russa più di altre sembra aver subito il fascino fatale del maligno, e questa raccolta di “Racconti di demoni russi” ne è un’oscura testimonianza. Guida d'eccezione in questo viaggio mefistofelico, Andrea Tarabbia ha selezionato e curato i più importanti esempi letterari di questa fascinazione sinistra, da Gogol’ a Cechov a Bulgakov, apparecchiando un banchetto di prelibatezze macabre tra cui alcune vere rarità – in cui l'estasi non è mai troppo distante dalla dannazione: ecco Satana che seduce una fanciulla e la condanna con un languido bacio, mentre un vortice di dannati si presenta al cospetto della regina del Sabba, suonano orchestre di morti, appaiono angeli avvolti dalle fiamme: la notte non è mai stata così animata, e racconto dopo racconto si compone, agli occhi del lettore, il ritratto al nero di un'intera cultura.
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Robinson Paul
Russian Conservatism (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
8vo, br. ed. 300pp. Paul Robinson's Russian Conservatism examines the history of Russian conservative thought from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. As he shows, conservatism has made an underappreciated contribution to Russian national identity, to the ideology of Russian statehood, and to Russia's social-economic development. Robinson charts the contributions made by philosophers, politicians, and others during the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods. Looking at cultural, political, and social-economic conservatism in Russia, he discusses ideas and issues of more than historical interest. Indeed, what Russian Conservatism demonstrates is that such ideas are helpful in interpreting Russia's present as well as its past and will be influential in shaping Russia's future, for better or for worse, in the years to come. For the past two centuries Russian conservatives have sought to adapt to the pressures of modernization and westernization and, more recently, globalization, while preserving national identity and political and social stability. Through Robinson's research we can now understand how Russian conservatives have continually proposed forms of cultural, political, and economic development seen as building on existing traditions, identity, forms of government, and economic and social life, rather than being imposed on the basis of abstract theory and foreign models.
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Nori Paolo
Repertorio dei matti della letteratura russa. Autori, personaggi e Storie
8vo, br, ed. pp. Questo Repertorio è un viaggio attraverso la letteratura russa con una guida d'eccezione: lo scrittore Paolo Nori. Il libro ne racconta gli autori, come «Uno, che si chiamava Ivan Turgenev, e veniva considerato il meno russo degli scrittori russi, e che diceva che dei russi gli piaceva soprattutto una cosa: la pessima opinione che avevan di se stessi» (da Venedikt Erofeev, Bespoleznoe iskopaemoe ), e le loro mogli come «quella che, una volta, aveva scritto sul suo diario che suo marito non si occupava mai di lei. Poi ha scritto anche che aveva voglia di fare la civetta e aveva voglia di sfogarsi anche solo con una sedia o una cosa qualsiasi» (Sofija Tolstaja, Diari ), e i loro protagonisti, come «quello che faceva l'operaio in una fabbrica dove costruivano giocattoli. Orsacchiotti meccanici, carri armati, scavatrici mobili. Orsacchiotti meccanici, carri armati e scavatrici mobili a un certo punto avevano cominciato a sparire in gran quantità. Si trattava di furto ai danni dello stato. Erano iniziate le indagini. Dopo un anno si era scoperto che questo operaio aveva scavato un piccolo tunnel dalla fabbrica in via Kotovskij. Ma non era lui a trasportare i giocattoli fuori dalla fabbrica. Se ne andavano da soli. Lui li caricava, li posava a terra all'imboccatura, e orsacchiotti meccanici, carri armati, scavatrici mobili, in lunghe file interminabili, arrivavano da soli in fondo al tunnel» (Sergej Dovlatov, "La valigia"), e i lettori, e i non lettori come «quella che portava sempre con sé l'Idiota e non lo leggeva mai. Diceva 'Devo andare a Bologna in treno, mi porto l'idiota'. Sembrava un po' un'offesa al fidanzato, invece no».
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L. Avirovic (a cura di) Mikoyan
Rivoluzione in cucina. A tavola con Stalin: il libro del cibo gustoso e Salutare
8vo, br. ed. 158pp. La prima edizione pubblicata nel 1939 ebbe un successo straordinario, e il libro fu ristampato più volte con tirature sempre superiori alle 500.000 copie. "Rivoluzione in cucina" è un capolavoro dell'arte culinaria. Interessante perché contiene tutti gli elementi e i risultati scientifici sulla nutrizione conseguiti all'epoca; edificante perché si legge come un libro di storia sugli infiniti modi di cibarsi dei popoli che formavano la sterminata Unione Sovietica; utile perché ancora oggi possiamo cimentarci nella preparazione dei piatti che propone. Il volume espone i capisaldi di un'alimentazione corretta, fornendo brevi descrizioni di alimenti e ricette.
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Maguire Muireann
Red Spectres: Russian 20th-Century Gothic-Fantastic Tales
8vo, br. ed. 160pp. This is a collection of 11 short stories in the gothic-fantastic genre by seven Russian writers mostly in the decade following the 1917 revolution.
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