Download or read book AfterTastes and Tales from Russia Forgive me for being anti Social ism written by and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am a Russian-born American citizen and Jewish. I have been raised during the oppressive Soviet regime and fortunate enough to leave it behind. This political memoir is my contribution to show people the contrast between what I have experienced and what we are experiencing in the United States currently. AfterTastes and Tales from Russia (Forgive me for being anti Social...ism) is part memoirs, part political analysis and opinions. The point I try to make is simple, that socialism has never worked and I provide my childhood memories, experiences and analysis on why. AfterTastes and Tales from Russia is a book that will reach out to the people of all political spectrum and race. I provide examples on how the non-religious, atheist society may still be very prejudiced and, in fact, more prejudiced than a free society. I want to help save this nation, so my book is as much from the heart as it is from my knowledge.
Download or read book The Overcoat and Other Short Stories written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four outstanding works by great 19th-century Russian author: "The Nose," "Old-Fashioned Farmers," "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich," and "The Overcoat."
Download or read book DANCING SPOONS AND KHACHAPURI A Russian Tale written by Sherry Marie Gallagher and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fairytale story and cleverly designed plot that is full of symbolism having to do with the Russian soul and nature. It's a nice, relaxing read with beautiful language and descriptions of the Russian folkways. The Russian-Afghanistan war is mentioned as a gross afterthought, but not too heavily so as to distract the reader from the main story about a Russian girl coming of age and losing her English expatriate father in Egypt. Even the hardships of the Russian poor and the father's imprisonment are crafted so as to present a glimpse of present social situations without being overdone. All in all, it's a lovely tale with strong characters that give the reader a taste of Eastern life, its joys and its difficulties.
Download or read book Monthly Index of Russian Accessions written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 2306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1000 Books for the Senior High School Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Basic Book Collection for High Sschools Complied by a Joint Committee of the American Library Association National Education Associatin and National Council of Teachers of English Jessie Boyd Chairman written by Joint Committee of the American Library Association, National Education Association and National Council of Teachers of English and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love written by Lara Vapnyar and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of Lara Vapnyar's six stories invites us into a world where food and love intersect, along with the overlapping pleasures and frustrations of Vapnyar's uniquely captivating characters. Meet Nina, a recent arrival from Russia, for whom colorful vegetables represent her own fresh hopes and dreams . . . Luda and Milena, who battle over a widower in their English class with competing recipes for cheese puffs, spinach pies, and meatballs . . . and Sergey, who finds more comfort in the borscht made by a paid female companion than in her sexual ministrations. They all crave the taste and smell of home, wherever—and with whomever—that may turn out to be. A roundup of recipes are the final taste of this delicious collection.
Download or read book Russia written by Philip Longworth and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these dramatic cycles of boom and bust from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible, and from the height of Communism to the truncated Russia of today. Philip Longworth explores the dynamics of Russia's past through time and space, from the nameless adventurers who first penetrated this vast, inhospitable terrain to a cast of dynamic characters that includes Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, and Stalin. His narrative takes in the magnificent, historic cities of Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg; it stretches to Alaska in the east, to the Black Sea and the Ottoman Empire to the south, to the Baltic in the west and to Archangel and the Artic Ocean to the north. Who are the Russians and what is the source of their imperialistic culture? Why was Russia so driven to colonize and conquer? From Kievan Rus'---the first-ever Russian state, which collapsed with the invasion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century---to ruthless Muscovy, the Russian Empire of the eighteenth century and finally the Soviet period, this groundbreaking study analyses the growth and dissolution of each vast empire as it gives way to the next. Refreshing in its insight and drawing on a vast range of scholarship, this book also explicitly addresses the question of what the future holds for Russia and her neighbors, and asks whether her sphere of influence is growing.
Download or read book Reading Darwin in Imperial Russia written by Andrew M. Drozd and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the reception of Darwin’s books and ideas in Russia as a cultural phenomenon, involving language, literature, science, philosophy, and humor. Diverse writers reveal the impact of the Darwinian moment on Russian minds and the public exchange of ideas, reflecting the optimism and anxiety of the late imperial era.
Download or read book Dovlatov and Surroundings written by Alexander Genis and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dovlatov and Surroundings is a literary ode by one of the most consequential late 20th-century Russian writers, Alexander Genis, to another: Sergei Dovlatov. Though the book’s focus is ostensibly the man himself, the text unfolds as a comprehensive look at the Soviet, post-Soviet, and American cultures that shaped him and which he shaped. Dovlatov and Surroundings constantly, but effortlessly shifts its focus from the intimate to the sweeping, as Genis’s reflections on his friendship with Dovlatov organically give way to recollections about diaspora life, which transition smoothly into analyses of language, culture, politics, and literature. Characterized by Genis as an obituary, this book makes plain the significance of Dovlatov to Russian literature and the nuances of the Soviet cultural heritage.
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Download or read book Zionism and the Fin de Siecle written by Michael Stanislawski and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Stanislawski's provocative study of Max Nordau, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and Vladimir Jabotinsky reconceives the intersection of the European fin de siècle and early Zionism. Stanislawski takes up the tantalizing question of why Zionism, at a particular stage in its development, became so attractive to certain cosmopolitan intellectuals and artists. With the help of hundreds of previously unavailable documents, published and unpublished, he reconstructs the ideological journeys of writer and critic Nordau, artist Lilien, and political icon Jabotinsky. He argues against the common conception of Nordau and Jabotinsky as nineteenth-century liberals, insisting that they must be understood against the backdrop of Social Darwinism in the West and the Positivism of Russian radicalism in the fin de siècle, as well as Symbolism, Decadence, and Art Nouveau. When these men turned to Zionism, Stanislawski says, far from abandoning their aesthetic and intellectual preconceptions, they molded Zionism according to their fin de siècle cosmopolitanism. Showing how cosmopolitanism turned to nationalism in the lives and work of these crucial early Zionists, this story is a fascinating chapter in European and Russian, as well as Jewish, cultural and political history.
Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pravda Ha Ha written by Rory MacLean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time' John le Carré In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were – for most Brits and Americans – part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears: from revanchist Russia, through Ukraine's bloodlands, into illiberal Hungary, and then Poland, Germany and the UK. Along the way he shoulders an AK-47 to go hunting with Moscow's chicken Tsar, plays video games in St Petersburg with a cyber-hacker who cracked the US election, drops by the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership in a non-existent nowhereland and meets the Warsaw doctor who tried to stop a march of 70,000 nationalists. Finally, on the shores of Lake Geneva, he waits patiently to chat with Mikhail Gorbachev. As Europe sleepwalks into a perilous new age, MacLean explores how opportunists – both within and outside of Russia, from Putin to Home Counties populists – have made a joke of truth, exploiting refugees and the dispossessed, and examines the veracity of historical narrative from reportage to fiction and fake news. He asks what happened to the optimism of 1989 and, in the shadow of Brexit, chronicles the collapse of the European dream.
Download or read book The Gramophone written by and published by . This book was released on 1973-10 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections written by Marietta Chicorel and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
