Download or read book A Glimpse Behind the Iron Curtain written by Lithuanian Council of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Glimpse Behind the Iron Curtain written by Rafael Nachman Kahan and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafael Kahan, a Chassidic Russian Jew, went beyond the limits of ordinary life experience when he was exiled for three years in the Ural Mountains.
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Download or read book Animation Behind the Iron Curtain written by Eleanor Cowen and published by John Libbey Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animation Behind the Iron Curtain is a journey of discovery into the world of Soviet era animation from Eastern Bloc countries. From Jerzy Kucia's brutally exquisite Reflections in Poland to the sci-fi adventure of Ott in Space by Estonian puppet master Elbert Tuganov to the endearing Gopo's little man by Ion Popescu-Gopo in Romania, this excursion into Soviet era animation brings to light magnificent art, ruminations on the human condition, and celebrations of innocence and joy. As art reveals the spirit of the times, animation art of Eastern Europe during the Cold War, funded by the Soviet states, allowed artists to create works illuminating to their experiences, hopes, and fears. The political ideology of the time ironically supported these artists while simultaneously suppressing more direct critiques of Soviet life. Politics shaped the world of these artists who then fashioned their realities into amazing works of animation. Their art is integral to the circumstances in which they lived, which is why this book combines the unlikely combination of world politics and animated cartoons. The phenomenal animated films shared in this book offer a glimpse into the culture and hearts of Soviet citizens who grew up with characters as familiar and beloved to them as Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny are to Americans. This book lays out the basic political dynamics of the Cold War and how those political tensions affected the animation industry in both the US and in the Eastern Bloc. And, for animation novices and enthusiasts alike, Animation Behind the Iron Curtain also offers breakout sections to explain many of the techniques and aesthetic considerations that go into this fascinating art form. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the Cold War era and really cool animated films!
Download or read book The Wall written by Peter Sís and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER "I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain." Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news from the West slowly filtered into the country. Sís learned about beat poetry, rock 'n' roll, blue jeans, and Coca-Cola. He let his hair grow long, secretly read banned books, and joined a rock band. Then came the Prague Spring of 1968, and for a teenager who wanted to see the world and meet the Beatles, this was a magical time. It was short-lived, however, brought to a sudden and brutal end by the Soviet-led invasion. But this brief flowering had provided a glimpse of new possibilities—creativity could be discouraged but not easily killed. By joining memory and history, Sís takes us on his extraordinary journey: from infant with paintbrush in hand to young man borne aloft by the wings of his art. This title has Common Core connections. The Wall is a 2007 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, a 2008 Caldecott Honor Book, a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year, the winner of the 2008 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction, and a nominee for the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids.
Download or read book Iron Curtain written by Anne Applebaum and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.
Download or read book A Glimpse Behind the Iron Curtain written by Hans Jahn and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tree God written by Alan Hamer and published by Tree God. This book was released on 2007 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TREE GOD - Behind the Iron Curtain is a novel based on a true story. In 1969 during the 'Cold War' years, Alan, a twenty one year old lad from Bolton set off to the Soviet Union to work as a Materials Engineer. During three astounding rollercoaster years in Mogilev, Belarus, he met people who would change his life forever; none more so than Larissa. Tree God is a journey of intrigue and self-discovery, which, told with the familiar northern dry wit gives the reader a sneak glimpse into the mysterious grey world behind the 'iron curtain'. Join Alan on his adventure as a naïve lad who stumbles into more than he bargained for in communist USSR. Apart from vivid memories that would last a lifetime just what was he bringing back with him......'
Download or read book Tales from Behind the Iron Curtain Life is a Story story one written by Orsolya Cseh and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My family originates from Romania, where they spent the chaotic decades of the 20th century as members of the largest Hungarian minority. During the darkest years, the feared dictator, Nicolae Ceauescu governed socialist Romania, where people were merely striving to survive. But what was happening beyond the Iron Curtain? These twelve tales of mine, based on true stories, convey this message. "Then the Wall fell, holes were shot into the rotten heart of the dictatorships, but in my youth, the shadow of the Eastern Bloc still bared its iron fangs at me."
Download or read book The Wall written by Peter Sís and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side-the Communist side-of the Iron Curtain." Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news from the West slowly filtered into the country. Sís learned about beat poetry, rock 'n' roll, blue jeans, and Coca-Cola. He let his hair grow long, secretly read banned books, and joined a rock band. Then came the Prague Spring of 1968, and for a teenager who wanted to see the world and meet the Beatles, this was a magical time. It was short-lived, however, brought to a sudden and brutal end by the Soviet-led invasion. But this brief flowering had provided a glimpse of new possibilities-creativity could be discouraged but not easily killed. By joining memory and history, Sis takes us on his extraordinary journey: from infant with paintbrush in hand to young man borne aloft by the wings of his art.--Publisher information.
Download or read book Animation Behind the Iron Curtain written by Eleanor Cowen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animation Behind the Iron Curtain is a journey of discovery into the world of Soviet era animation from Eastern Bloc countries. From Jerzy Kucia's brutally exquisite Reflections in Poland to the sci-fi adventure of Ott in Space by Estonian puppet master Elbert Tuganov to the endearing Gopo's little man by Ion Popescu-Gopo in Romania, this excursion into Soviet era animation brings to light magnificent art, ruminations on the human condition, and celebrations of innocence and joy. As art reveals the spirit of the times, animation art of Eastern Europe during the Cold War, funded by the Soviet states, allowed artists to create works illuminating to their experiences, hopes, and fears. The political ideology of the time ironically supported these artists while simultaneously suppressing more direct critiques of Soviet life. Politics shaped the world of these artists who then fashioned their realities into amazing works of animation. Their art is integral to the circumstances in which they lived, which is why this book combines the unlikely combination of world politics and animated cartoons. The phenomenal animated films shared in this book offer a glimpse into the culture and hearts of Soviet citizens who grew up with characters as familiar and beloved to them as Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny are to Americans. This book lays out the basic political dynamics of the Cold War and how those political tensions affected the animation industry in both the US and in the Eastern Bloc. And, for animation novices and enthusiasts alike, Animation Behind the Iron Curtain also offers breakout sections to explain many of the techniques and aesthetic considerations that go into this fascinating art form. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the Cold War era and really cool animated films!
Download or read book Warsaw under German Rule 1939 42 written by Friedrich Gollert and published by . This book was released on with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Look behind the Iron Curtain written by Hans Jahn and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Letters from Khrushchev s Russia written by Douglas M. Bowden, M.d. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War our understanding of life in the Soviet Union was layered with so much ideology and competition that it was difficult to get a feel for the realities of daily existence there. The number of Americans living a normal life in communist Russia was negligible. Western embassy personnel were isolated as potential spies. Western business people and tourists were unwelcome. A number of exchanges of experts in various fields followed Soviet successes in nuclear arms development and Sputnik, but most involved short tours to identify other areas in which the Soviets might be outpacing the West. A major exception was the US-USSR inter-university exchange. In that program graduate students from American universities lived and conducted research in the Soviet Union for substantial periods of time. This book, authored by one of those students, provides a rare, first-hand account of life in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. It describes the experiences of a culturally inquisitive Stanford medical student in the exchange during 1961-62. He recorded his impressions of historical events, social mores and personal life in a series of some forty letters to family and friends as he participated in brain-and-behavior research at Moscow State University. The author describes shaking hands with Nikita Khrushchev during a Fourth of July celebration at the US Ambassador's residence in Moscow. That event turned out to be the setting for the first contact between an attaché of the US Embassy and the Soviet military intelligence officer who tipped off the West to Khrushchev's intention to install missiles in Cuba later that year. The letters describe typical attitudes of Russian scientists, academics, and university students toward such topics as nuclear disarmament, Stalin's cult of personality, and the likelihood that peoples of the capitalist world could advance to communism without a series of bloody revolutions. They describe prototypic features of life in Soviet Russia including exasperatingly inefficient services and bureaucratic machinations as ludicrous as a Charlie Chaplin skit intermixed with spontaneous acts of genuine compassion and goodwill. They explore typical attitudes toward more personal aspects of life, such as dating, marriage, parenting, professional development, and religion. The author describes how the inter-university exchange operated. While he found his research to be in a field unhampered by free-floating political paranoia, he observed the frustrating experiences of other students who were not so fortunate. Accustomed to freedom of humanities research in US universities, they found themselves in a restrictive environment, pawns in an exchange designed primarily to provide Soviet students access to US knowledge in such fields as advanced physics and computer sciences. At worst students in Russian history, political science, and literature were perceived as potential secret agents collecting information to embarrass or harm the Soviet Union. The letters are amply annotated to clarify, in light of later developments, the historical significance of events that the author observed and to describe changes in his interpretation of events based on numerous visits to Russia over the subsequent five decades. American Letters from Khrushchev's Russia constitutes a new primary source of information for historians, sociologists, social psychologists, and cultural anthropologists who seek to reconstruct the social atmosphere and conventional wisdom of Russians during the early post-Stalinist era. It will enrich their understanding of the interaction of an ultimately transient totalitarian societal structure with enduring Russian familial, educational and religious institutions. The informal style of letters to family and friends will make the book a fascinating read for individuals who have lived, travelled or plan to travel in that exotic part of our world.
Download or read book Once Upon Another Time written by Jessica Douglas-Home and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daily Life behind the Iron Curtain written by Jim Willis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book describes how everyday people courageously survived under repressive Communist regimes until the voices and actions of rebellious individuals resulted in the fall of the Iron Curtain in Europe. Part of Greenwood's Daily Life through History series, Daily Life behind the Iron Curtain enables today's generations to understand what it was like for those living in Eastern Europe during the Cold War, particularly the period from 1961 to 1989, the era during which these people-East Germans in particular-lived in the imposing shadow of the Berlin Wall. An introductory chapter discusses the Russian Revolution, the end of World War II, and the establishment of the Socialist state, clarifying the reasons for the construction of the Berlin Wall. Many historical anecdotes bring these past experiences to life, covering all aspects of life behind the Iron Curtain, including separation of families and the effects on family life, diet, rationing, media, clothing and trends, strict travel restrictions, defection attempts, and the evolving political climate. The final chapter describes Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall and the slow assimilation of East into West, and examines Europe after Communism.
Download or read book Czechoslovakia written by Zuzana Palovic and published by Hybrid Global Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey into the borderland of the red empire, during an ideological battle that saw the world ripped in half. Dare to step into communist Czechoslovakia, where the controlled 'east' and the free 'west' converged at their closest. This is a story of ordinary people caught up in the midst of the 20th century's greatest political experiment. Through tales only told in whispers, glimpse into the everyday reality of those whose entire universe was ruled by the hammer and sickle.
