Russian Literature and Thought Series – serie
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Untimely Thoughts
Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918
Av Maxim Gorky
Häftad, 1995
649 kr
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One of the most renowned Soviet writers of the twentieth century, Maxim Gorky was an early supporter of the Bolsheviks who became disillusioned with the turn of events after the 1917 revolution. This brilliant and controversial book is a collection of the critical articles Gorky wrote that describe …
See No Evil
Literary Cover-Ups and Discoveries of the Soviet Camp Experience
Inbunden, 2003
1092 kr
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Believing that human actions could be controlled by a totalitarian government, Stalin and his followers subjected millions of Soviet citizens to acts of state terrorism and imprisonment in labor camps. But this was not enough. Seeking to control human thought as well, Soviet authorities provided …
Russia Through Women's Eyes
Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia
Av Toby W. Clyman, Judith Vowles
Häftad, 1999
658 kr
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Nineteenth-century Russia has been known to the West mainly through the writings of men. Russian women, however, were far from silent and have left vivid testimony about their families, their education, their careers, and their country. This collection presents, for the first time in English, the …
Toward Another Shore
Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance
Inbunden, 1998
1240 kr
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In this thought-provoking book, an internationally acclaimed scholar writes about the passion for ideology among nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian intellectuals and about the development of sophisticated critiques of ideology by a continuing minority of Russian thinkers inspired by …
Liberty, Equality, and the Market
Essays by B.N. Chicherin
Av B. N. Chicherin, Gary M. Hamburg
Inbunden, 1998
805 kr
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This volume brings the remarkable writings of Russian liberal thinker Boris Nikolaevich Chicherin (1828–1904) to English-language readers for the first time. The collection includes key essays in which Chicherin addresses the central political and social problems that confronted Russia from 1855 to …
Little Tragedies
Häftad, 2000
502 kr
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In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that comprise the “little tragedies.” The “little …
Five Operas and a Symphony
Word and Music in Russian Culture
Inbunden, 2005
884 kr
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In this eagerly anticipated book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary history. He discusses six major works of Russian music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing the interplay of musical texts with their …
Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences
Key Writings by and about Maxim Gorky
Inbunden, 2008
959 kr
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Superb new translations of Gorky’s classic memoirs of Tolstoy and other remarkable Russians, along with unforgettable characterizations of Gorky himself by his contemporariesMaxim Gorky (1868-1936) enjoyed worldwide fame of a kind unmatched by that of any other writer in the first half of the …
Leo Tolstoy and the Alibi of Narrative
Av Justin Weir
Häftad, 2011
776 kr
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One hundred years after his death, Tolstoy still inspires controversy with his notoriously complex narrative strategies. This original book explores how and why Tolstoy has mystified interpreters and offers a new look at his most famous works of fiction.
Pushkin's Historical Imagination
Häftad, 2011
607 kr
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This book explores the historical insights of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia’s most celebrated poet and arguably its greatest thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova examines for the first time the full range of Pushkin’s fictional and nonfictional writings on the subject of history—writings that have …
Views from the Other Shore
Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin
Häftad, 2012
487 kr
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In this brilliant companion volume to her highly praised Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance, Aileen M. Kelly closely examines a humanist strand of Russian thought that has until now received little notice or understanding. She finds in the writings of Aleksandr …
Philosophy of Economy
The World as Household
Häftad, 2014
583 kr
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The writings of Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944), like those of other major social thinkers of Russia’s Silver Age, were obliterated from public consciousness under Soviet rule. Discovered again after eighty years of silence, Bulgakov’s work speaks with remarkable directness to the postmodern listener. …
Politics, Law, and Morality
Essays by V.S. Soloviev
Av Vladimir Soloviev, Vladimir Wozniuk
Häftad, 2014
583 kr
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Considered one of Russia’s greatest philosophers, Vladimir Soloviev (1853–1900) was also a theologian, historian, poet, and social and political critic. His works have emerged to enjoy renewed attention in post–Soviet Russia, and his concerns echo in contemporary discussions of politics, law, and …
"Anna Karenina" in Our Time
Seeing More Wisely
Inbunden, 2007
457 kr
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In this invigorating new assessment of Anna Karenina, Gary Saul Morson overturns traditional interpretations of the classic novel and shows why readers have misunderstood Tolstoy’s characters and intentions. Morson argues that Tolstoy’s ideas are far more radical than has been thought: his …
