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19 produkter
Edge of Empires
A History of Georgia
Häftad, 2019
248 kr
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Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today’s Near or Middle East and, despite having one of the longest, most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, no proper history of the country has been written for decades. Eminent historian Donald Rayfield redresses this balance …
Stalin and His Hangmen
An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him
E-bok, 2005
136 kr
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Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin's inner circle than ever before. Stalin was not the sole author of Stalinism. What …
Stalin and His Hangmen
An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him
Häftad, 2005
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
209 kr
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Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin's inner circle than ever before. Stalin was not the sole author of Stalinism. What …
Understanding Chekhov
A Critical Study of Chekhov'S Prose and Drama
Häftad, 1999
284 kr
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Of all Russian writers, Chekhov is one of the best liked and most easily appreciated. Yet he is also one of the most elusive. Here Donald Rayfield reveals the layers of meaning on which the great dramatist's stories and plays are built. He examines his brief twenty-year creative life, from medical …
The Literature of Georgia
A History
Häftad, 2014
795 kr
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The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique among those of the former Byzantine and Russian empires, both in its quality and its 1500 years' history. It is examined in the context of the extraordinarily diverse influences which affected it - …
Anton Chekhov
A Life
Häftad, 2009
448 kr
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The description 'definitive' is too easily used, but Donald Rayfield's biography of Chekhov merits it unhesitatingly. To quote no less an authority than Michael Frayn:'With question the definitive biography of Chekhov, and likely to remain so for a very long time to come. Donald Rayfield starts …
Dream of Lhasa
The Life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839–1888), Explorer of Central Asia
Häftad, 2013
354 kr
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The great Russian explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839-1888) made an indelible contribution to the world's atlases, and its store of zoological and botanical knowledge, as a consequence of his four arduous and dangerous expeditions through the Central Asia of Western Mongolia, Eastern Turkestan and …
Dream of Lhasa
The Life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839–1888), Explorer of Central Asia
E-bok, 2013
212 kr
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The great Russian explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839-1888) made an indelible contribution to the world's atlases, and its store of zoological and botanical knowledge, as a consequence of his four arduous and dangerous expeditions through the Central Asia of Western Mongolia, Eastern Turkestan and …
Anton Chekhov
A Life
E-bok, 2013
212 kr
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The description 'definitive' is too easily used, but Donald Rayfield's biography of Chekhov merits it unhesitatingly. To quote no less an authority than Michael Frayn:'With question the definitive biography of Chekhov, and likely to remain so for a very long time to come. Donald Rayfield starts …
Literature of Georgia
A History
Inbunden, 2000
2888 kr
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The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique among those of the former Byzantine and Russian empires, both in its quality and its 1500 years' history. It is examined in the context of the extraordinarily diverse influences which affected it - …
Literature of Georgia
A History
E-bok, 2013
1235 kr
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The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique among those of the former Byzantine and Russian empires, both in its quality and its 1500 years'' history. It is examined in the context of the extraordinarily diverse influences which affected it - …
Literature of Georgia
A History
E-bok, 2013
1235 kr
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The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique among those of the former Byzantine and Russian empires, both in its quality and its 1500 years'' history. It is examined in the context of the extraordinarily diverse influences which affected it - …
Sketches of the Criminal World
Further Kolyma Stories
Av Varlam Shalamov, Donald Rayfield
Häftad, 2020
258 kr
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The astonishing follow-up to 2018's Kolyma Stories . In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen years in the prison camps and returned from the Far North to write one of the masterpieces of …
‘A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’
The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate
Inbunden, 2024
343 kr
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The Crimean Tatars were the Turkic-speaking native peoples of Crimea who established a powerful khanate in the 1440s, which remained in power until 1783. In this, the first history in English for over 100 years, eminent scholar Donald Rayfield shows that this misunderstood and much-feared nation …
Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" and the "Wood Demon"
Av Donald Rayfield, D. Rayfield
Häftad, 1998
399 kr
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ANTON CHEKHOV: A LIFE
E-bok, 2014
136 kr
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;Tri goda, provedennye v poiskah, rasshifrovke i osmyslenii dokumentov, ubedili menya v tom, chto nichego v ehtih arhivah ne mozhet ni diskreditirovat'', ni oposhlit'' CHekhova. Rezul''tat kak raz obratnyj: slozhnost'' i glubina figury pisatelya stanovyatsya eshche bolee ochevidnymi, kogda my …
EDGE OF EMPIRES: A HISTORY OF GEORGIA
E-bok, 2017
136 kr
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"Bog delil Zemlyu mezhdu narodami, - glasit gruzinskaya legenda. - Gruziny opozdali, zaderzhavshis'' za tradicionnym zastol''em, i k momentu ih poyavleniya ves'' mir uzhe byl podelen. Kogda Gospod'' sprosil u prishedshih, za chto oni pili, gruziny otvetili: "Za tebya, Bog, za sebya, za mir». …
Stalin and His Hangmen
E-bok, 2017
133 kr
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Izvestnyj britanskij istorik i literaturoved, avtor bestsellerov "Gruziya. Perekrestok imperij. Istoriya dlinoj v tri tysyachi let" i "ZHizn'' Antona CHekhova", predlagaet detal''nyj analiz istoricheskoj ehpohi i lichnostej, otvetstvennyh za prestupleniya, v kotoryh ischezli milliony lyudej, "ne …
