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Book A Treasury of Russian Verse

Download or read book A Treasury of Russian Verse written by Avrahm Yarmolinsky and published by New York : Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1949 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Garnett Book of Russian Verse

Download or read book Garnett Book of Russian Verse written by Donald Rayfield and published by Nicholson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treasury of Russian Love

Download or read book Treasury of Russian Love written by Viktorii︠a︡ Andreeva and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes works by Tolstoy, Chekhov and Pushkin.

Book Russian Poet Soviet Jew

Download or read book Russian Poet Soviet Jew written by Maxim Shrayer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based in part on archival materials, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew examines the short and brilliant career of Eduard Bagritskii (1895-1934), a major Russian poet of Jewish origin. Shrayer provides a short biography, an examination of the problems of Jewish identity and Jewish self-hatred, and interviews with contemporary leaders of Russian ultra-nationalism to explore Bagritskii's Russian/Jewish dual identity. The book also includes the first English-language translations of Bagritskii's major works, along with rare archival photographs documenting the trajectory of his life and career.

Book The Oxford book of Russian verse

Download or read book The Oxford book of Russian verse written by Maurice Baring and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Notes by Prince D S Mirsky" (biographical and bibliographical): p 189-206.

Book An Anthology of Russian Verse  1812 1960

Download or read book An Anthology of Russian Verse 1812 1960 written by Avrahm Yarmolinsky and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stalking Nabokov

Download or read book Stalking Nabokov written by Brian Boyd and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Brian Boyd surveys Vladimir Nabokov's life, career, and legacy; his art, science, and thought; his subtle humor and puzzle-like storytelling; his complex psychological portraits; and his inheritance from, reworking of, and affinities with Shakespeare, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Machado de Assis. Boyd also offers new ways of reading Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada or Ardor, and the unparalleled autobiography, Speak, Memory, disclosing otherwise unknown information about the author's world. Sharing his personal reflections as he recounts the adventures, hardships, and revelations of researching Nabokov's life? oeuvre?, he cautions against using Nabokov's metaphysics as the key to unlocking all of the enigmatic author's secrets. Assessing and appreciating Nabokov as novelist, memoirist, poet, translator, scientist, and individual, Boyd helps us understand more than ever Nabokov's multifaceted genius.

Book Russia Under the Last Tsar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Theofanis G. Stavrou
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1969-04
  • ISBN : 0816605149
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Russia Under the Last Tsar written by Theofanis G. Stavrou and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1969-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of Russia?s last tsar, Nicholas II, from 1894 to 1917, constitutes a period of continuing controversy among historians. Interesting in its own right, it is also a time of great importance to an understanding of the cataclysmic events which follo.

Book The Oxford Book of Russian Verse

Download or read book The Oxford Book of Russian Verse written by Maurice Baring and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1948 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age

Download or read book Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age written by Anatoly Liberman and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age is the first translation of nearly all the lyrics by Evgeny Boratynsky (1800–1844), one of the greatest poets of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. The translation retains the meter and rhyming of the original. The commentary following each work provides the necessary background information and often includes translations from the works of Boratynsky’s contemporaries and of later poets. Boratynsky is thus presented against the background of contemporary poetry, both Russian and French, and as an influence on later poets. The book opens with a long introduction on Boratynsky’s life and achievements as well as an analysis of the previous translations of his works into English. Two indexes—of names and of subjects—help the reader to navigate through the poet’s world and works.

Book The Icon and Axe

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Billington
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2010-09-22
  • ISBN : 0307765288
  • Pages : 880 pages

Download or read book The Icon and Axe written by James Billington and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sweeping, intricate description of Russian cultural history, spanning the pre-Romanov era through six centuries to the reign of Joseph Stalin. Flowing with ease through time and topic — from art to music, literature, philosophy, mythology and more — the book provides readers with an alluring portrayal of Russia’s proud heritage. Its impressive scope and lasting insights have made it a foundational text in Russian studies. In fact, it was this book, more than any other, that captured my imagination and propelled me toward the study of Russia and the Soviet Union." --Condoleezza Rice, The New York Times "A rich and readable introduction to the whole sweep of Russian cultural and intellectual history from Kievan times to the post-Khruschev era." - Library Journal Includes Illustrations, references, index.

Book Continuity And Change In Rural Russia A Geographical Perspective

Download or read book Continuity And Change In Rural Russia A Geographical Perspective written by Gregory Ioffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the viewpoint of many Western scholars, the authors of this penetrating analysis argue that private farming is not a viable option in Russia's future. Instead, a convergence of Soviet-style subsidiary farming with traditional and reorganized collective farms is the most plausible path of evolution in most rural areas.Grigory Ioffe and Tatyana Nefedova arrive at this conclusion by a careful examination of ongoing reform efforts in Russian agriculture against the backdrop of European and Russian agrarian history and rural spatial development since the late nineteenth century. The comparisons at the national level are then filled in with consideration of a number of Russian provinces (oblasti) and regions (raiony). Their research reveals the substantial negative impact of rural depopulation on the Russian agrarian economy. Seventy original maps richly complement and support the narrative.

Book The Development of Russian Verse

Download or read book The Development of Russian Verse written by Michael Wachtel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Development of Russian Verse explores the Russian verse tradition from Pushkin to Brodsky, showing how certain formal features are associated with certain genres and, at times, specific themes. Michael Wachtel's basic thesis is that form is never neutral: poets can react positively in terms of stylization and development, or negatively in terms of parody or revision, to the work of their predecessors, but they cannot ignore it. Keeping technical terms to a minimum and providing English translations of quotations, Wachtel offers close readings of individual poems of more than fifty poets. He aims to help English-speaking readers reconstruct the strong sense of continuity that Russian poets have always felt, transcending any individual age or ideology. Ultimately, his 1999 book is an inquiry into the nature of literary tradition itself, and how it coalesces in a country that has always taken so much of its identity from its written legacy.

Book Mass Culture in Soviet Russia

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Von Geldern
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1995-12-22
  • ISBN : 9780253209696
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Mass Culture in Soviet Russia written by James Von Geldern and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-22 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology offers a rich array of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, comic routines, and folklore to offer a close look at the mass culture that was consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. Both state-sponsored cultural forms and the unofficial culture that flourished beneath the surface are represented. The focus is on the entertainment genres that both shaped and reflected the social, political, and personal values of the regime and the masses. The period covered encompasses the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the mixed economy and culture of the 1920s, the tightly controlled Stalinist 1930s, the looser atmosphere of the Great Patriotic War, and the postwar era ending with the death of Stalin. Much of the material appears here in English for the first time. A companion 45-minute audio tape (ISBN 0-253-32911-6) features contemporaneous performances of fifteen popular songs of the time, with such favorites as "Bublichki," "The Blue Kerchief," and "Katyusha." Russian texts of the songs are included in the book.

Book Researching the Song

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shirlee Emmons
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0195373103
  • Pages : 522 pages

Download or read book Researching the Song written by Shirlee Emmons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original publication and copyright date: 2006.

Book Russian Culture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Mead
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781571812346
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Russian Culture written by Margaret Mead and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These texts expose ... the impoverishing effect of recent emphases on critical virtuosity. The phenomenological status, processes, and practices involved (in our culture) in terms such as "character" are fascinating to study." - Journal of Anthropological Research "Regardless of the dated theoretical approach of these classics, their valuable factual material and the ability of the authors to inspire further reflection still make them worth reading." - Ethnos This volume brings together two classic works on the culture of the Russian people which have been long out of print. Gorer's Great Russian Culture and Mead's Soviet Attitudes towards Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character were among the first attempts by anthropologists to analyze Russian society. They were influential both for several generations of anthropologists and in shaping American governmental attitudes toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War period. Additionally they offer fascinating insights into the early anthropological use of psychological data to analyze cultural patterns. Read as part of the history of the anthropology of complex contemporary societies, they are as fascinating for their more questionable conclusions as for their accurate characterizations of Russian life.

Book Russian Literature Triquarterly

Download or read book Russian Literature Triquarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: