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Book Ivan Moscow

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  • Author : Boris Pilʹni︠a︡k
  • Publisher : Westport, Conn : Hyperion Press
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Ivan Moscow written by Boris Pilʹni︠a︡k and published by Westport, Conn : Hyperion Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ivan Moscow

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  • Author : Boris Pilnyak
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07-10
  • ISBN : 9781955190107
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Ivan Moscow written by Boris Pilnyak and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive narrative from the Russian master of modernity Boris Pilnyak. Pilnyak had lived directly the momentous changes of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and in Ivan Moscow he channeled the sense of danger and upheaval into a novel where the next direction can never be predicted. Shuttling back and forth in time, the difficult-to-summarize story involves a factory situated deep in the Poludov Mountains, syphilitic delirium, and a radioactive Egyptian mummy. If there's a narrative that conveys the shock of Russian modernity circa 1920 in such a riotous and entertaining fashion, well, we would like to know about it. Our text is a revised version of A. Schwartzman's translation of the book (Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1935).

Book Ivan the Great of Moscow

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  • Author : John Lister Illingworth Fennell
  • Publisher : London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Ivan the Great of Moscow written by John Lister Illingworth Fennell and published by London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book This Thing of Darkness

Download or read book This Thing of Darkness written by Joan Neuberger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Thing of Darkness, Joan Neuberger's engrossing production history of Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, is a major contribution to the study of Eisenstein and thus informs the history and theory of cinema and the study of Soviet culture and politics. Neuberger's ability to mine, interpret, and connect Eisenstein's voluminous, intriguingly digressive writings makes this book exceptional.— Karla Oeler, Stanford University Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible, was no ordinary movie. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin in 1941 to justify state terror in the sixteenth century and in the twentieth, the film's politics, style, and epic scope aroused controversy even before it was released. In This Thing of Darkness, Joan Neuberger offers a sweeping account of the conception, making, and reception of Ivan the Terrible that weaves together Eisenstein's expansive thinking and experimental practice with a groundbreaking new view of artistic production under Stalin. Drawing on Eisenstein's unpublished production notebooks, diaries, and manuscripts, Neuberger's riveting narrative chronicles Eisenstein's personal, creative, and political challenges and reveals the ways cinematic invention, artistic theory, political critique, and historical and psychological analysis went hand in hand in this famously complex film. Neuberger's bold arguments and daring insights into every aspect of Eisenstein's work during this period, together with her ability to lucidly connect his wide-ranging late theory with his work on Ivan, show the director exploiting the institutions of Soviet artistic production not only to expose the cruelties of Stalin and his circle but to challenge the fundamental principles of Soviet ideology itself. Ivan the Terrible, she argues, shows us one of the world's greatest filmmakers and one of the 20th century's greatest artists observing the world around him and experimenting with every element of film art to explore the psychology of political ambition, uncover the history of recurring cycles of violence and lay bare the tragedy of absolute power.

Book Ivan Moscow

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  • Author : Boris Pilńkilak
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 92 pages

Download or read book Ivan Moscow written by Boris Pilńkilak and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Naked Year

Download or read book The Naked Year written by Борис Пильняк and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ivan the Terrible

Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Isabel de Madariaga and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan IV, 'the Terrible' (1533-1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror—and for killing his own son—he has been credited with establishing autocracy in Russia. This is the first attempt to write a biography of Ivan from birth to death, to study his policies, his marriages, his atrocities, and his disordered personality, and to link them as a coherent whole. Isabel de Madariaga situates Ivan within the background of Russian political developments in the sixteenth century. And, with revealing comparisons with English, Spanish, and other European courts, she sets him within the international context of his time. The biography includes a new account of the role of astrology and magic at Ivan's court and provides fresh insights into his foreign policy. Facing up to problems of authenticity (much of Ivan's archive was destroyed by fire in 1626) and controversies which have paralyzed western scholarship, de Madariaga seeks to present Russia as viewed from the Kremlin rather than from abroad and to comprehend the full tragedy of Ivan's reign.

Book Ivan the Terrible

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  • Author : Alexander Filjushkin
  • Publisher : Frontline Books
  • Release : 2008-08-30
  • ISBN : 1848325045
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Alexander Filjushkin and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan was also the first Russian ruler to invade Europe, and his Campaigns against the Livonian Confederation were initially very successful. In 1558, Russian soldiers occupied Dorpat and Narva, and laid siege to Reval, creating vital trade routes over the Baltic Sea. At the Battle of Ergema the Russians defeated the knights of the Livonian Order, fuelling Ivan's dreams of a Russian Empire. However, as Erik XIV of Sweden recaptured Reval, and the Poles joined forces with the Lithuannians, the war began to turn against Ivan. In 1571, an army of 120,000 Crimean Tatars crossed the River Ugra, crushed the Russian defences, and burned Moscow to the ground. As Ivan became increasingly paranoid and violent, he carried out a number of terrible massacres. It is thought that more than forty thousand were killed when the Russians sacked the town of Novgorod in 1570, and many were tortured and murdered in front of Ivan and his son. Ivan the Terrible describes the organisation and equipment of the tsar's army and the forces of his enemies, the Poles, Lithuanians, Tatars and Livonian Knights. The narrative examines all of Russia's military campaigns in Eastern Europe and Western Siberia during the period of 1533 to 1584. This is the first specialist study of Ivan the Terrible's military strategy to be published in English.

Book Prince A  M  Kurbsky s History of Ivan IV

Download or read book Prince A M Kurbsky s History of Ivan IV written by J. L. I. Fennell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Fennell provides Prince A. M. Kurbsky's History of the Grand Prince of Moscow with a facing translation and full notes.

Book Ivan the Great of Moscow

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  • Author : John 1918-1992 Fennell
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781014578587
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Ivan the Great of Moscow written by John 1918-1992 Fennell and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Ivan the Terrible

Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Ryan Nagelhout and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does Ivan Vasilyevich, also known as Ivan the Terrible, deserve his menacing moniker? The grand prince of Moscow built an empire in the 16th century to become the first tsar of Russia in 1547. Though his achievements were considerable during his time in power, his suspicions about the loyalty of his subjects led to thousands of executions, casting a bloody pall over his entire reign. This story of an intriguing—though chilling—ruler will captivate readers as well as give them an understanding of the conflicts in Europe and Asia at this time.

Book Ivan the Great of Moscow

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  • Author : John Lister Illingworth Fennell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780758188229
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Ivan the Great of Moscow written by John Lister Illingworth Fennell and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ivan the Terrible

Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Robert Payne and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Czar Ivan IV (1530-1584), the first Russian ruler to take the title czar, is known as one of the worst tyrants in history, but few people among the general public know how he got such an infamous reputation. Relying on extensive research based heavily on original Russian sources, this definitive biography depicts an incredibly complex man living in a time of simple, harsh realities. Robert Payne, the distinguished author of many historical and biographical works, and Russian scholar Nikita Romanoff, describe in vivid and lively detail Ivan's callous upbringing; the poisoning of his second wife and the murder of his son; his obsession with religion and sin; his predilection for mass murder, evidenced by his massacre of 30,000 citizens of Novgorod; yet his remarkable intelligence as a ruler, supporting the growth of trade and expanding Russia's borders.

Book Ivan the Great of Moscow

Download or read book Ivan the Great of Moscow written by J.L.I. Fennell and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Download or read book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobel Prize-winning author's most accessible novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an undisputed classic of contemporary literature. First published (in censored form) in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, it is the story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov as he struggles to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. On every page of this graphic depiction of Ivan Denisovich's struggles, the pain of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's own decade-long experience in the gulag is apparent—which makes its ultimate tribute to one man's will to triumph over relentless dehumanization all the more moving. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced-work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary works to have emerged from the Soviet Union. The first of Solzhenitsyn's novels to be published, it forced both the Soviet Union and the West to confront the Soviet's human rights record, and the novel was specifically mentioned in the presentation speech when Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Above all, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich establishes Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy" (Harrison Salisbury, The New York Times). This unexpurgated, widely acclaimed translation by H. T. Willetts is the only translation authorized by Solzhenitsyn himself.

Book Ivan and the Moscow Circus

Download or read book Ivan and the Moscow Circus written by Myrna Grant and published by Flamingo Fiction 9-13s. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read how a key, a car, a foreign journalist and a clown suit help Ivan in one of his greatest adventures against the powerful Secret Police.

Book The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore

Download or read book The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore written by Maureen Perrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Ivan the Terrible's depiction in Russian folklore, and the controversies surrounding it.