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Introducing "History of Russia: Catherine II to the Revolution of 1905-1906".
- The Second Volume in Our "Russia's Epic Saga: A Journey Through Time" Series.
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of Russia's past with the second book in our enthralling Russian history series. This book transports you to an era of profound transformation, where visionary rulers and revolutionary ideas shaped the course of Russian history.
Witness the reign of...
2) Plasticine
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An extraordinary and disturbing play about post-Communist Russia by a young Siberian-born writer.
In a faceless city in the depths of present-day Russia a young boy dies. Women in the street are drunk, fight and demand sex. Maksim, a schoolboy, makes his way through this urban hell. His only retreat is into a private world moulded by himself, out of which springs a final act of reckless courage.
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Seven Russian Archetypes is a description of seven seminal Russian figures: the Victim (zhertva), the Fool (iurodivyi), the Rebel or the Bandit (buntar' ili razboinik), the Wanderer (strannik), the Mother (mat'), the Peasant (muzhik), and the Intellectual (intelligent). Drawing from Russian history, folklore, literature, visual arts, and religion, these seven profiles are analyzed and presented in vivid and evocative detail. The seven portraits help...
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Joseph Frank (1918–2013) was professor of comparative and Russian literature at Princeton and Stanford. The five volumes of his Dostoevsky biography won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, two James Russell Lowell Prizes, two Christian Gauss Awards, and other honors. The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies awarded Frank its highest honor.
Essays from the award-winning Dostoevsky biographer...
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Balmont's lyrical prowess shines through his poignant verses, offering readers a profound exploration of themes such as love, nature, spirituality, and the human experience. With exquisite language and evocative imagery, Balmont's poems evoke a range of emotions, transporting readers into a world where beauty and introspection intertwine. Mezhdu nochju i dnem, 25 poems. Narrated by Tim Mirkin. Please note - this book is in Russian language.
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Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: A country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime. This riveting book views the 1990s reform period through the experiences of individual citizens, revealing the changes that have swept Russia and their effect on Russia's age-old ways of thinking.
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Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latviaconsiders what impact Western religious culture had on Soviet religious policy. While Russia was a predominantly Orthodox country, Baltic states annexed after WWII, such as Estonia and Latvia, featured Lutheran and Catholic churches as the state religion. Robert Goeckel explores how Soviet religious policy accommodated differing traditions and the extent to which these churches either reflected nationalist...
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A critical look at the later work of the Russian Jewish author in the Soviet Union and its significance to Russian and Jewish history.
In Der Nister's Soviet Years, author Mikhail Krutikov focuses on the second half of the dramatic writing career of Soviet Yiddish writer Der Nister, pen name of Pinhas Kahanovich (1884—1950). Krutikov follows Der Nister's painful but ultimately successful literary transformation from his symbolist roots to social...
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From 1929 to 1958, hundreds of thousands of prisoners and exiles from across the Soviet Union were sent to the harsh yet resource-rich Komi Republic in Russia's Far North. When the Soviet Union collapsed, former prisoners sent their autobiographies to Komi's local branches of the anti-Stalinist Memorial Society and history museums.
Using these previously unavailable personal records, alongside newspapers, photographs, interviews, and other non-state...
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This unique edition of Anton Chekhov's collected works.
Content:
Introduction:
Biography by Constance Garnett
Novel:
The Shooting Party
Plays:
On the High Road
Swan Song
Ivanoff
Anniversary
Jubilee
Proposal
Wedding
Bear
Boor
Seagull
Reluctant Hero
Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
Cherry Orchard
On the Harmfulness of Tobacco
Wood Demon
Novellas and Short Stories:
Living Chattel
Bliss
Joy
At The Barber's
Enigmatic Nature
Classical Student
Matter of Classics
Death...
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The description for this book, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, will be forthcoming. "[A]nother impressive installment in one of modern scholarship's largest biographical achievements." "In its scale and scholarly care, Frank's study, even at this preliminary stage, has no rival throughout the extensive critical and biographical literature on Dostoevsky."---George Steiner, New Yorker
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The term "biography" seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Frank's five-volume study of the life of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. One critic, writing upon the publication of the final volume, casually tagged the series as the ultimate work on Dostoevsky "in any language, and quite possibly forever."
Frank himself had not originally intended to undertake such a massive work. The endeavor began...
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"Life is a vexatious trap, when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape."Ward No. Six (1892)
Contents:
Living Chattel
Joy
Bliss
At The Barber's
Enigmatic Nature
Classical Student
Matter of Classics
Death of A Government Clerk
Daughter of Albion
Trousseau
Inquiry
Fat and Thin
Tragic Actor
Slanderer
Bird Market
Choristers
Album
Minds in Ferment
Chameleon
In...
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"Winner of the 1993 Book Prize, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages"
Comparable in importance to Mikhail Bakhtin, Lydia Ginzburg distinguished herself among Soviet literary critics through her investigation of the social and historical elements that relate verbal art to life in a particular culture. Her work speaks directly to those Western critics who may find that deconstructionist and psychoanalytical strategies...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993" Donna Tussing Orwin is Research Associate at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto.
"My aim is to present Tolstoy's work as he may have understood it himself," writes Donna Orwin. Reconstructing the intellectual and psychic struggles behind the masterpieces of his early and middle age, this major study covers the period during which he wrote The Cossacks,...
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Alexander Pushkin was a Russian poet and writer who is considered the father of the modern Russian novel. The so-called Golden Age of Russian Literature was inspired by the themes and aesthetics of Pushkin - we are talking about names like Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol. This selection of short stories brings you the best of Pushkin selected by August Nemo: The Queen of Spades, The Shot, The Snowstorm,...
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Kathleen Parth offers the first comprehensive examination of the controversial literary movement Russian Village Prose. From the 1950s to the decline of the movement in the 1970s, Valentin Rasputin, Fedor Abramov, and other writers drew on "luminous" memories of their rural childhoods to evoke a thousand-year-old pattern of life that was disappearing as they wrote. In their lyrical descriptions of a vanishing world, they expressed nostalgia for Russia's...
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La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española.
En este volumen traemos a Iván Turguénev, un escritor, novelista y dramaturgo, considerado el más europeísta de los narradores rusos del siglo XIX.
Este libro contiene los siguientes cuentos:
- La muerte
- Birouk
- El miedo
- Jermolai y la molinera
- Un sueño
- El enano Kaciano
- Los cantores rusos