Download or read book The Mystical Underground of Moscow written by Konstantin Serebrov and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trilogy "The mystical Labyrinth in Russia" was inspired by the ideas of European alchemy and The Fourth Way of G. I. Gurdjieff. The action takes place in the Soviet Union of the 1980s, where oppressive materialistic ideology is still in full power, supported by a developed system of shadowing peoples way of thinking. Interest in mysticism or esoteric tradition is considered a crime and is severely punished by the authorities. A Master Alchemist, known only as G, creates in Moscow a secret alchemical School, where men can grow spiritually and to find God. It is not so simple to learn in his School, as G does not give clear instructions to his disciples, who tend to use his insights to satisfy their egoistic inclinations. They reject his subtle hints which constantly points at the spiritual Path leading above, to the Absolute. During one of his journeys G finds two young men who have a true thirst for spiritual knowledge. They recognise G as their spiritual Master and announce that they want to follow him. G gives to his two new disciples a task; to become acquainted with the 'old Guards' of his School in Moscow and St Petersburg and to learn from them their, well concealed, spiritual knowledge. Konstantin Serebrov had intertwined the knowledge of the alchemical tradition and of the Fourth Way into the dialogues of the characters of this Trilogy, who embody the interaction of different alchemical principles and substances. The book is richly illustrated by the engravings of alchemical treatises of 16th-17th centuries.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture written by Mark Lipovetsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture is the first comprehensive English-language volume covering a history of Soviet artistic and literary underground. In forty-four chapters, an international group of leading scholars introduce readers to a web of subcultures within the underground, highlight the culture achievements of the Soviet underground from the 1930s through the 1980s, emphasize the multimediality of this cultural phenomenon, and situate the study of underground literary texts and artworks into their broader theoretical, ideological, and political contexts.
Download or read book Black Wind White Snow written by Charles Clover and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin’s government in Russia “Part intellectual history, part portrait gallery . . . Black Wind, White Snow traces the background to Putin’s ideas with verve and clarity.”—Geoffrey Hosking, Financial Times “Required reading. This is a vivid, panoramic history of bad ideas, chasing the metastasis of the doctrine known as Eurasianism. . . . Reading Charles Clover will help you understand the world of lies and delusions that is Eurasia.”—Ben Judah, Standpoint Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyzes the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of white Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia’s Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and up to its steady infiltration of the governing elite around Vladimir Putin. This eye-opening analysis pieces together the evidence for Eurasianism’s place at the heart of Kremlin thinking today and explores its impact on recent events, the annexation of Crimea, and the rise in Russia of anti-Western paranoia and imperialist rhetoric, as well as Putin’s sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions. Based on extensive research and dozens of interviews with Putin’s close advisers, this quietly explosive story will be essential reading for anyone concerned with Russia’s past century, and its future.
Download or read book The Secret History of Moscow written by Ekaterina Sedia and published by Prime Books. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every city contains secret places. Moscow in the tumultuous 1990s is no different, its citizens seeking safety in a world below the streets -- a dark, cavernous world of magic, weeping trees, and albino jackdaws, where exiled pagan deities and faery-tale creatures whisper strange tales to those who would listen. Galina is a young woman caught, like her contemporaries, in the seeming lawlessness of the new Russia. In the midst of this chaos, her sister Maria turns into a jackdaw and flies away -- prompting Galina to join Yakov, a policeman investigating a rash of recent disappearances. Their search will take them to the underground realm of hidden truths and archetypes, to find themselves caught between reality and myth, past and present, honor and betrayal . . . the secret history of Moscow.
Download or read book The Moscow Underground written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moscow guide written by Леонид Гаврилов and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Album guide contains historical information about the capital of Russia, Moscow, and invaluable tips for moving around the city in search of wonders. After a decade of research in mysteries, various cultural and spiritual phenomena, the author stumbled upon a city where amazing cultural, social and spiritual facts were born, which could be interesting for researchers, historians and guests of Moscow.В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет книги.
Download or read book Constructing the Stalinist Body written by Keith A. Livers and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It Will Be Fun and Terrifying written by Fabrizio Fenghi and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies: bolshevism and nationalism. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin, and the movements they led underwent dramatic shifts that eventually led to the support of Putin's conservative, imperialist regime over social justice and fundamental civil liberties. To illuminate the role of these right-wing ideas in contemporary Russian society, Fabrizio Fenghi examines the public pronouncements and aesthetics of this influential movement. He analyzes a diverse range of media, including novels, art exhibitions, performances, seminars, punk rock concerts, and even protest actions. His interviews with key figures reveal an attempt to create an alternative intellectual class, or a "counter-intelligensia." This volume shows how certain forms of art can transform into political action through the creation of new languages, institutions, and modes of collective participation"--
Download or read book The Triangle of Master G written by Konstantin Serebrov and published by Guram Kochi @Serebrov Boeken. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is in memory of Vladimir Stepanov a.k.a. Master G Epitaph “The Lord’s knight, Master G, you’ve been accepting everyone coming to you, as you followed the word of the Lord. You’ve been warming us by the warmth of your heart and tirelessly have been admonishing us to study ourselves and the Holy Scriptures, and to aspire to God’s Holy Spirit.“ The Author’s Introduction The concept of inner development has always attracted me. Since my early childhood I have wanted to plunge into the mystery of our existence, to look behind so to say an unseen curtain which limits our perception. The majority of people do not believe that there is mystery behind the visible world. Therefore I could discuss these matters and my experiences with just a few friends who just like me had more questions than answers. I once met a person who pointed out to me a very unusual spiritual Path to which my heart felt irresistibly attracted. However it took me a year to put aside my old views and intentions and leave behind my old life and follow him on his continuous journey. The adventures and new experiences and the growth of my being were necessary in order to accept an incomprehensible teaching that this man has been carrying in his heart. The best definition of this teaching could be in my opinion ‘Russian Christian Hermeticism’, and its main practice was spiritual alchemy. However it did not seem to me appropriate to write another condensed and incomprehensible alchemical treaty and I just described it all as it happened. Finally, I should like to express my gratitude to my friends Gouri and Maria for their help in writing this book. They did a great job of preparing and editing the materials for this book and Gouri, in addition to it, has enriched the text with many details which had almost disappeared from my memory. Konstantin Serebrov, Moscow, January 2001
Download or read book The Total Art of Stalinism written by Boris Groys and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists' goal of producing world-transformative art. In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate that the book has stimulated since its first publication.
Download or read book Naming Infinity written by Loren Graham and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Name Worshipping. Exiled to remote Russian outposts, the monks and their mystical movement went underground. Ultimately, they came across Russian intellectuals who embraced Name Worshipping—and who would achieve one of the biggest mathematical breakthroughs of the twentieth century, going beyond recent French achievements. Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor take us on an exciting mathematical mystery tour as they unravel a bizarre tale of political struggles, psychological crises, sexual complexities, and ethical dilemmas. At the core of this book is the contest between French and Russian mathematicians who sought new answers to one of the oldest puzzles in math: the nature of infinity. The French school chased rationalist solutions. The Russian mathematicians, notably Dmitri Egorov and Nikolai Luzin—who founded the famous Moscow School of Mathematics—were inspired by mystical insights attained during Name Worshipping. Their religious practice appears to have opened to them visions into the infinite—and led to the founding of descriptive set theory. The men and women of the leading French and Russian mathematical schools are central characters in this absorbing tale that could not be told until now. Naming Infinity is a poignant human interest story that raises provocative questions about science and religion, intuition and creativity.
Download or read book The Mystical Labyrinth in Russia written by Konstantin Serebrov and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archetypes from Underground written by Lonny Harrison and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self uncovers archetypal imagery in Dostoevsky’s stories and novels and argues that archetypes bring a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of his works. In this interdisciplinary study, Harrison analyzes selected texts in light of fresh research in Dostoevsky studies, cultural history, comparative mythology, and depth psychology. He argues that one of Dostoevsky's chief concerns is the crisis of modernity, and that he dramatizes the conflicts of the modern self by depicting the dynamic, transformative nature of the psyche. Harrison finds the language and imagery of archetypes in Dostoevsky’s characters, symbols, and themes, and shows how these resonate in remarkable ways with the archetypes of self, persona, and the shadow. He demonstrates that major themes in Dostoevsky coincide with Western esotericism, such as the complementarity of opposites, transformation, and the symbolism of death and resurrection. These arguments inform a close reading of several of Dostoevsky’s texts, including The Double, Notes from Underground, and The Brothers Karamazov. Archetypes inform these works and others, bringing vitality to Dostoevsky’s major characters and themes. This research represents a departure from the religious and philosophical questions that have dominated Dostoevsky studies. This work is the first sustained analysis of Dostoevsky’s work in light of archetypes, framing a topic that calls for further investigation. Archetypes illumine the author’s ideas about Russian national identity and its faith traditions and help us redefine our understanding of Russian realism and the prominent place Dostoevsky occupies within it.
Download or read book The Secret History of Moscow written by Ekaterina Sedia and published by Wildside Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just released from a mental hospital, Galina, a young translator and recovering schizophrenic, doesn't quite believe her eyes when her pregnant sister abruptly gives birth and changes into a fleeing jackdaw. Yet others across the city witness similar transformations, including Yakov, a neighborhood detective assigned to investigate a disturbing epidemic of missing-person cases. When street artist Fyodor stumbles on a surprising clue to the avian mystery, Galina and Yakov follow him through a magic portal visible only in window reflections and into an underground world of forgotten misfits and mythical creatures.
Download or read book Entangled Far Rights written by Marlene Laruelle and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, Russia’s support to the European far right—and to a variety of populist leaders more globally—has become a cornerstone of the West’s perception of Moscow as a “spoiler” on the international scene. The fact that Russia’s most fervent supporters are now to be found on the right of the ideological spectrum should not be a surprise. The European far right has always had Russophile tendencies, but these were obscured during the Cold War, when rightist politics were most of all anti-Communist. Entangled Far Rights traces the “intellectual romance” that existed between European far right groups and their Russian-Soviet counterparts during the twentieth century and accounts for their recent re-emergence.
Download or read book The Exile written by Mark Ames and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "eXile" is the controversial tabloid founded by Ames and Taibbi that "Rolling Stone" has called "cruel, caustic, and funny" and "a must-read." In the tradition of gonzo journalists like Hunter S. Thompson, the authors cover everything from decadent club scenes to the nation's collapsing political and economic systems--no one is spared. Illustrations.
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