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Book Suzdal  The Golden Ring of Russia  Photobook

Download or read book Suzdal The Golden Ring of Russia Photobook written by Kate Nikolaeva and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suzdal is a beautiful small city in Russia. It is popular with tourists from all over the world. You can read about it, but it’s better to see it. Photos tell about Suzdal better than words.

Book Around the Golden Ring of Russia

Download or read book Around the Golden Ring of Russia written by Юрий Бычков and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russian Winter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Russia Beyond The Headlines
  • Publisher : Russia Beyond The Headlines
  • Release : 2014-12-12
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Russian Winter written by Russia Beyond The Headlines and published by Russia Beyond The Headlines. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia Beyond the Headlines is proud to present an interactive photo album dedicated to the Russian winter. Always unexpected yet welcome, winter has become an integral part of Russian identity and a magnet that attracts travellers from around the world. We have arranged the 12 chapters of the album from the coldest winter temperature to the warmest, so that after shivering through the Arctic snows it is possible to warm up under the bright winter sun of the cities of the Golden Ring. You can watch with your own eyes as winter gradually comes to Yakutia, Kamchatka, Lake Baikal, Siberia, White Sea region and the Golden Ring cities.

Book Around the Golden Ring of Russia

Download or read book Around the Golden Ring of Russia written by I︠U︡riĭ Bychkov and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reaching Out

Download or read book Reaching Out written by George Lysloff and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tale, the author relates of his travels and in particular the four voyages he undertook to renew his ties with the land of his Russian father who left and became an exile in the aftermath of the Revolution. Three of the trips involved Wanda his wife and they had a wonderful time of it. The last one did not include her because of an unforgiving illness. By the same token he found his roots in the Russian countryside and discovered the part of his soul he had missed for so long.

Book The Golden Ring of Russia

Download or read book The Golden Ring of Russia written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moscow  St  Petersburg   The Golden Ring

Download or read book Moscow St Petersburg The Golden Ring written by Masha Nordbye and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russia  Ukraine   Belarus

Download or read book Russia Ukraine Belarus written by Ryan Ver Berkmoes and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social, political, and economic facts about Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Useful facts for the visitor. How to get there and then get around. Maps of major- interest areas.

Book The Conflict in Ukraine

Download or read book The Conflict in Ukraine written by Serhy Yekelchyk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When guns began firing again in Europe, why was it Ukraine that became the battlefield? Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's current crisis can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However this theory only obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic revolution and the conflict's crucial international dimension. The 2013-14 Ukrainian revolution presented authoritarian powers in Russia with both a democratic and a geopolitical challenge. President Vladimir Putin reacted aggressively by annexing the Crimea and sponsoring the war in eastern Ukraine; and Russia's actions subsequently prompted Western sanctions and growing international tensions reminiscent of the Cold War. Though the media portrays the situation as an ethnic conflict, an internal Ukrainian affair, it is in reality reflective of a global discord, stemming from differing views on state power, civil society, and democracy. The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know explores Ukraine's contemporary conflict and complicated history of ethnic identity, and it does do so by weaving questions of the country's fraught relations with its former imperial master, Russia, throughout the narrative. In denying Ukraine's existence as a separate nation, Putin has adopted a stance similar to that of the last Russian tsars, who banned the Ukrainian language in print and on stage. Ukraine emerged as a nation-state as a result of the imperial collapse in 1917, but it was subsequently absorbed into the USSR. When the former Soviet republics became independent states in 1991, the Ukrainian authorities sought to assert their country's national distinctiveness, but they failed to reform the economy or eradicate corruption. As Serhy Yekelchyk explains, for the last 150 years recognition of Ukraine as a separate nation has been a litmus test of Russian democracy, and the Russian threat to Ukraine will remain in place for as long as the Putinist regime is in power. In this concise and penetrating book, Yekelchyk describes the current crisis in Ukraine, the country's ethnic composition, and the Ukrainian national identity. He takes readers through the history of Ukraine's emergence as a sovereign nation, the after-effects of communism, the Orange Revolution, the EuroMaidan, the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, the war in the Donbas, and the West's attempts at peace making. The Conflict in Ukraine is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the forces that have shaped contemporary politics in this increasingly important part of Europe. What Everyone Needs to Know® is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.

Book Ukraine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Serhy Yekelchyk
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020-01-26
  • ISBN : 0197532101
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Ukraine written by Serhy Yekelchyk and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an updated edition of Serhy Yekelchyk's 2015 publication, The Conflict in Ukraine. It addresses Ukraine's relations with the West from the perspective of Ukrainians. It looks at what we know about alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, the factors behind the stunning electoral victory of the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky, and the ways in which the events leading to the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump have changed the Russia-Ukraine-US relationship.

Book Mathematicians of the World  Unite

Download or read book Mathematicians of the World Unite written by Guillermo Curbera and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vividly illustrated history of the International Congress of Mathematicians- a meeting of mathematicians from around the world held roughly every four years- acts as a visual history of the 25 congresses held between 1897 and 2006, as well as a story of changes in the culture of mathematics over the past century. Because the congress is an int

Book Language  Canonization and Holy Foolishness

Download or read book Language Canonization and Holy Foolishness written by Per-Arne Bodin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the Russian Orthodox tradition meets post-Soviet Russia? This is the gemeral question which will be in the focus in this study of the Orthodox discourse in post-Soviet Russian culture. It will be abalyzed both in its own right and as a constituent of memory, a conservative or imperialist political attitude and postmodernism. One issue addressed in the debate over the use of Church Slavonic as the liturgical language. Another invloves the nature of the canonizations that have taken place in the Orthodox Church in recent years and attempts to canonize the soldier Evgenij Rodionov and Stalin. A third topic is jurodstvo, or holy foolishness, for centuries a special and recurring theme in the Orthodox Church that has re-emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union. A chapter is devoted to Ksenija of Petersburg, a peculiar and much beloved holy fool of that city. A final issue concerns the significance of the Orthodox tradition in recent Russian art and poetry.

Book Aleksandr Deineka  1899 1969

Download or read book Aleksandr Deineka 1899 1969 written by Александр Александрович Дейнека and published by Actar. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aleksandr Deineka (1899-1969): An Avant-Garde for the Proletariat is the first exhibition and publication to present this outstanding figure of socialist realism - and, by extension, the historical period from which his work was borne - in a twofold context: the end of the avant-garde and the advent of Soviet socialist realism. It covers Deineka's entire oeuvre, from his early paintings of the 1920s to the twilight of his career in the 1950s, when the dreamlike quality of his first works gave way to the harsh materiality of everyday life, the life in which the utopian ideals of socialism seemed to materialize. Combining Deineka's graphic work, extraordinary posters and celebrated contributions to illustrated magazines and books with his imposing monumental paintings, this catalogue displays a variety of subjects: factories and enthusiastic masses, athletes and farmers, the ideal and idyllic image of Soviet life.

Book Andrei Tarkovsky

Download or read book Andrei Tarkovsky written by Peter Green and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian film-maker who lived from 1932-1986. It is a critical examination of his films in the light of his own writings and life, his aesthetics of film, his theory of time in cinematography and an attempt to comprehend his vision.

Book Replicating Atonement

Download or read book Replicating Atonement written by Mischa Gabowitsch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines what happens when one country’s experience of dealing with its traumatic past is held up as a model for others to follow. In regional and country studies covering Argentina, Canada, Japan, Lebanon, Rwanda, Russia, Turkey, the United States and former Yugoslavia, the authors look at the pitfalls, misunderstandings and perverse effects–but also the promise–of trying to replicate atonement. Going beyond the idea of a global or transnational memory, this book examines the significance of foreign models in atonement practices, and analyses the role of national governments, international organisations, museums, foundations, NGOs and public intellectuals in shaping the idea that good practices of atonement can be learned. The volume also demonstrates how one can productively learn from others by appreciating the complex and contested nature of atonement practices such as Germany’s, and also by finding the necessary resources in the history of one’s own country.

Book The Great Utopia

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  • Author : Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  • Publisher : ABRAMS
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780810968684
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Great Utopia written by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this volume, which accompanies the largest exhibition ever mounted at the Guggenheim Museum, twenty-one essays by eminent scholars from Germany, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States explore the activity of the Russian and Soviet avant-garde in all its diversity and complexity. These essays trace the work of Malevich's Unovis (Affirmers of the New Art) collective in Vitebsk, which introduced Suprematism's all-encompassing geometries into the design of textiles, ceramics, and indeed whole environments; the postrevolutionary reform of art education and the creation of Moscow's Vkhutemas (Higher Artistic-Technical Workshops), where the formal and analytical princples of the avant-garde were the basis of instruction; the debates over a "proletarian art" and the transition to Constructivism, "production art," and the "artist-constructor"; the organization of new artist-administered "museums of artistic culture"; the "third path" in non-objective art taken by Mikhail Larionov; the return to figuration in the mid-1920s by the young artists - and former students of the avant-garde - in Ost (the Society of Easel Painters); the debates among photographers, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, on the superiority of the fragmented or continuous image as a representation of the new socialist reality; book, porcelain, fabric, and stage design; and the evolution of a new architecture, from the experimental projects of Zhivskul'ptarkh (the Synthesis of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture Commission) to the multistage competition, in 1931-32, for the Palace of Soviets, which "proved" the inapplicability of a Modernist architecture to the Bolshevik Party's aspirations."

Book Vitebsk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aleksandra Semenovna Shatskikh
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2007-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300101089
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Vitebsk written by Aleksandra Semenovna Shatskikh and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the artistic life of Vitebsk during the years 1917-1922, when a great burst of creative experimentation transformed the modest Russian town into one of the most influential gateways to the art of the twentieth century. Spurred by native son Marc Chagall, who returned home after the October Revolution in 1917 to take the position of art commissioner, Vitebsk rose to a pinnacle of fame as an artistic laboratory for the avant-garde. It was here that such luminaries as El Lissitzky, Yuri Pen, Kazimir Malevich, Nikolai Suetin, Mikhail Bakhtin, and others worked, inspired one another, and made distinctive contributions to modernism. Art historian Aleksandra Shatskikh surveys the entire 'Vitebsk phenomenon', drawing on an array of archives in Russia and Amsterdam, many of which have never been open to Western scholars. She discusses Chagall's Academy of Art and its major teachers and students; the founding of the artists' group, UNOVIS; Malevich's architectural experiments; Bakhtin's circle; and important developments in theater and music in Vitebsk. With more than two hundred outstanding illustrations, the book brings Vitebsk to life at a fascinating and transformative moment in art history.