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Last Letter from Moscow

Autor: Abrasha Rotenberg

Número de Páginas: 281

Last Letter from Moscow is a captivating narrative that combines the pace of a thriller with the depth of historical memoir. Abrasha Rotenberg, born in Teofipol, a village in Ukraine within the former Soviet Union, was a direct witness to some of the most tumultuous events of the 20th century: the Russian Revolution, communism, Nazism, and later, Peronism and the establishment of the State of Israel. His life is an emblematic journey of exile, filled with challenges and contradictions. From his childhood under the newly established Bolshevik regime, to his first migration to the city of Magnitogorsk in the Ural Mountains—where his young eyes witnessed Stalin's grand experiment in industrialization—and his experiences in Moscow, the epicenter of Soviet power, the author recreates a dizzying universe. The story of the protagonist, a de facto orphan, takes a dramatic turn when he manages to leave the Soviet Union with his mother, heading to Buenos Aires to reunite with a father he knew only through photographs. Decades later, while exiled in Spain, the author and his wife, Dina, meet a Spanish couple in a small town in the Sierra de Madrid. During this casual encounter, he shares ...

Última carta de Moscú

Autor: Abrasha Rotenberg

Número de Páginas: 307

Última carta de Moscú es un relato cautivador que combina el ritmo de un thriller con la profundidad de una memoria histórica. Abrasha Rotenberg, nacido en Teofipol, una aldea de Ucrania en la antigua Unión Soviética, fue testigo presencial de algunos de los acontecimientos más convulsos del siglo XX: la Revolución Rusa, el comunismo, el nazismo y, más tarde, el peronismo y el establecimiento del Estado de Israel. Su vida es un periplo emblemático del exilio, lleno de desafíos y contradicciones. Desde su infancia bajo el recién instaurado régimen bolchevique, pasando por su primera migración a la ciudad de Magnitogorsk en los montes Urales —donde sus ojos de niño presencian la gran experiencia de la industrialización staliniana—, hasta sus vivencias en Moscú, el epicentro del poder soviético, el autor recrea un universo vertiginoso. La historia del protagonista, un huérfano de facto, da un giro cuando logra salir de la Unión Soviética junto a su madre rumbo a Buenos Aires para reunirse con un padre al que solo conocía por fotografías. Décadas más tarde, exiliados en España, el autor y Dina, su esposa, conocen a una pareja española en un pueblo de la...

The Flames of Moscow

Autor: Ivan Lukash

Número de Páginas: 352

The Moscow Art Theatre Letters

Autor: Jean Benedetti

Número de Páginas: 406

Moscow Art Theatre Letters tells the real story of the Moscow Art Theatre, from its origin at the turn of the century through its first forty years. Jean Benedetti presents the historical record first-hand in this collection of the letters of the main protagonists. Many are available in English for the first time--all will come as a revelation to Western readers.

Moscow Has Ears Everywhere

Autor: Paolo Mancosu

Número de Páginas: 424

The conflict between Soviet Communists and Boris Pasternak over the publication of Doctor Zhivago did not end when he won the Nobel Prize, or even when the author died. Paolo Mancosu tells how Pasternak's expulsion from the Soviet Writers' Union left him in financial difficulty. After Pasternak's death, Olga Ivinskaya, his companion, literary assistant, and the inspiration for Zhivago's Lara, also received some of the Zhivago royalties. After the KGB intercepted Pasternak's will on her behalf, the Soviets arrested and sentenced her to eight years of labor camp. The ensuing international outrage inspired a secret campaign in the West to win her freedom. Mancosu's new book provides extraordinary detail on these events, in a thrilling account that involves KGB interceptions, fabricated documents, smugglers, and much more. Included are letters of Pasternak and Ivinskaya from the Hoover Institution Library and Archives.

The French Retreat from Moscow

Autor: Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope

Número de Páginas: 302

Hearings

Autor: United States. Congress Senate

Número de Páginas: 632

Between Tel Aviv and Moscow

Autor: Leah Trachtman-palchan

Número de Páginas: 248

Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life. This was a life of migration, dissent, exile and survival. Born in the final years of Tsarist Russia, her family was forced to leave their small town following the repeated pogroms of the Civil War era. A two year voyage followed, bringing them all to British Mandate Palestine in 1921. Here what seems like a typical Jewish story of migration from Eastern Europe in the early twentieth century took an unexpected turn. As a teenager, Leah joined the Communist movement in Palestine - illegal under the British Mandate. She was arrested, imprisoned and eventually deported by the British to the Soviet Union. This memoir is filled with colourful, and sometimes harrowing, sketches of the people who passed through her life during the era of Stalin's Great Purges and the evacuation of factories to Siberia during World War II. Shedding new light on both Mandate Palestine and the Jewish experience in Soviet Moscow, this book reveals the remarkable story of a woman living through some of the most pivotal events of twentieth-century history.

The French Retreat from Moscow, and Other Historical Essays. Collected from the Quarterly Review and Fraser's Magazine

Autor: Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope

Número de Páginas: 298

Moscow Diary

Autor: Walter Benjamin

Número de Páginas: 162

Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR

Autor: Sergei I. Zhuk

Número de Páginas: 295

This study is an intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930–2008), the prominent Soviet historian who was a pioneering scholar of US history and US–Russian relations. Alongside the personal history of Bolkhovitinov, this study also examines the broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Using archival documents, numerous studies by Russian and Ukrainian Americanists, various periodicals, personal correspondence, diaries, and more than one hundred interviews, it demonstrates how concepts, genealogies, and images of modernity shaped a national self-perception of the intellectual elites in both nations during the Cold War.

Yevgeny Mravinsky

Autor: Gregor Tassie

Número de Páginas: 306

The last of a long line of distinguished Russian aristocrats, Yevgeny Mravinsky emerges from the 20th Century musical scene as a noble conductor and exceptional treasure of Soviet culture. His friendship of some forty years with Dmitri Shostakovich led to the opening of that composer's music to the Soviet public in spite of the State's condemnation of Shostakovich's work in the influential newspaper Pravda. His associations with many other prominent musicians were instrumental in bringing their works into the Soviet consciousness. In these pages, the family history, major formative life events, and the many musical accomplishments of Mravinsky are chronicled, revealing an introverted musician who put all his feelings into his interpretation of the scores he conducted. It was Mravinsky who was largely responsible for introducing the Soviet people in the 20th Century to the music of Debussy, Scriabin, and Stravinsky. Along with those of Feodor Chalyapin, George Balanchine, Nikolai Cherkasov, and Yuri Grigorovich, Mravinsky's life reveals much about the psychology and credo of the artist in the Soviet State. Enriched with rare photographs of Mravinsky in his various milieus, and a...

Typhoon over Moscow

Autor: Thomas Broderick

Número de Páginas: 562

During the predawn hours of June 22, 1941 over 3.5 million German troops and thousands of tanks, planes, and armored vehicles slammed into the Soviet Unions Western Frontier. Hitlers Operation Barbarossa had begun and stretched on a front spanning nearly 2,000 kilometers from north to south. The opening weeks of the Great Patriotic War as it is known in Russia, were an unmitigated disaster for the Red Army. Brave soldiers like Lieutenant Alexander Semenov and General Nikolai Petrenko struggled heroically to shore up their countrys defenses and halt Germanys three-pronged advance, the center of which was aimed right at the very heart and capital of their beloved motherland, Moscow. With the entire civilian population mobilized, thousands of men, women, and children, toiled without rest digging fortifications and deep anti-tank trenches out of the rich black soil of Mother Russia. Industrial workers from across the country labored to crate every piece of equipment, not already in German hands, and shipped them east to the Urals out of harms way. Thousands of vital war industries, large and small, sprung up from the frozen earth and within weeks were producing the vital tools needed...

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko and the Moscow Art Theatre

Autor: Inna Solovyova

Número de Páginas: 283

This is an authorized translation of Nemirovich-Danchenko (Moscow, 1979) by Inna Solovyova, historian, author, and senior researcher of the Moscow Art Theatre Archives. Untranslated before now, it is the only comprehensive account of the life and work of Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858–1943), co-founder with Konstantin Stanislavsky of the Moscow Art Theatre and one of the pioneers of the art of directing. Nemirovich-Danchenko was one of the few prominent theatre practitioners who lived and worked from Russia’s Tsarist period through the inception and consolidation of its Soviet period. Thus, it is also a story about the development of Russian society and culture during the last half of the nineteenth century and the Soviet half of the twentieth century. Additionally, it explores the Moscow Art Theatre’s interpretive and production work on the plays of Chekhov, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, and many others. The central theme of the book focuses on the contingent dialectical relationship between artists and their changing socio-political realities. The author’s narrative is stylistically informal and based on archival documents, most of which...

The Warren Commission (Complete Edition)

Autor: President's Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy - U.s. Government

Número de Páginas: 11362

The Warren Commission (Complete Edition) presents a comprehensive investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, discussing various theories and evidence related to the tragic event. Written in a factual and informative style, the book delves into the historical context surrounding the assassination, providing readers with a detailed account of the investigation process and its conclusions. The inclusion of primary documents and testimonies adds depth to the narrative, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the history of political assassinations and conspiracy theories. The careful analysis of the events leading up to and following the assassination offers a unique perspective on this pivotal moment in American history. As a government publication authored by the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, the book reflects the official stance on the investigation, shedding light on the political and social climate of the time. The authoritative tone and thorough research highlight the importance of understanding the facts surrounding such a significant event to prevent misinformation and conspiracy theories from clouding...

Iwanowna; Or, The Maid of Moscow

Autor: Mrs. Hofland (barbara)

Número de Páginas: 256

Kapitza in Cambridge and Moscow

Autor: J.w. Boag , P.e. Rubinin , D. Shoenberg

Número de Páginas: 448

The unusual career of the famous Soviet physicist Peter Kapitza was divided between Cambridge and Moscow. In Cambridge he was a protegé of Rutherford and while studying there he opened up a new area of research in magnetism and low temperature physics. However, in 1934, during a summer visit to the Soviet Union, Kapitza was prevented from returning to Cambridge and remained in Moscow for the rest of his long life. In spite of many ups and downs and considerable difficulties in his relations with top political figures in the Kremlin, he continued to enhance his scientific reputation and late in life was awarded the Nobel Prize.After an introductory biographical memoir, the greater part of the book consists of extracts from the numerous letters Kapitza wrote throughout his life, letters which are distinguished by their eloquence, the originality of his opinions and his forthrightness. His very interesting correspondence with Rutherford and above all his many letters to top political figures in the Soviet Union such as Molotov, Stalin and Khrushchev on questions of scientific and industrial policy are all included in this unique document. Together they provide a rounded picture of a ...

A Shadow in Moscow

Autor: Katherine Reay

Número de Páginas: 385

In the thick of the Cold War, a betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6’s best Soviet agent and the CIA’s newest Moscow recruit. Vienna, 1954 After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker and follows him home to Moscow. But nothing within the Soviet Union’s totalitarian regime is what it seems, including her new husband, whom Ingrid suspects works for the KGB. Inspired by her daughter’s birth, Ingrid risks everything and reaches out in hope to the one country she understands and trusts—Britain, the country of her mother’s birth. She begins passing intelligence to MI6, navigating a world of secrets and lies, light and shadow. Moscow, 1980 A student in the Foreign Studies Initiative, Anya Kadinova finishes her degree at Georgetown University and boards a flight home to Moscow, leaving behind the man she loves and a country she’s grown to respect. Though raised by dedicated and loyal Soviet parents, Anya soon questions an increasingly oppressive and paranoid regime at the height of the Cold War. Then the KGB murders her best friend...

Life in Moscow; Communism and now

Autor: Axel Delwig

Número de Páginas: 201

The book has been recommended for student studying Slavonic subjects at Durham University, United Kingdom. The book is very informative, and it will appeal to a broad audience of readers, including students studying English, as there a great deal of uncertainty and historically a great interest to Russia in various countries (especially in the view of upcoming Presidential elections in March 2012), as to what was and still going on in Russia, as to what to expect of this country and its strange and counterintuitive regime. The book provides first-hand information about Russia.

The Karamazov Correspondence

Autor: Vladimir S. Soloviev

Número de Páginas: 234

The Karamazov Correspondence: Letters of Vladimir S. Soloviev represents the first fully annotated and chronologically arranged collection of the Russian philosopher-poet’s most important letters, the vast majority of which have never before been translated into English. Soloviev was widely known for his close association with Fyodor M. Dostoevsky in the final years of the novelist’s life, and these letters reflect many of the qualities and contradictions that also personify the title characters of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. The selected letters cover all aspects of Soloviev’s life, ranging from vital concerns about human rights and the political and religious turmoil of his day to matters related to family and friends, his love life, and early drafts of his works, including poetic endeavors.

From Moscow With Love

Autor: Stephen A. Phillips

Número de Páginas: 154

Moscow Memoirs

Autor: Emma Gerstein

Número de Páginas: 580

In the early 1960s Anna Akhmatova encouraged Emma Gerstein to record her own memories of the renowned Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam. But Gerstein's vivid and uncompromising account was not at all what she had expected. When first published in Moscow in 1998 Gerstein's memoirs provoked responses from condemnation to rapturous praise amongst Russian readers. A shrewd observer, a close member of the Mandelstam and Akhmatova family circles, and a serious literary specialist in her own right, Gerstein is uniquely qualified to remove both poets from their pedestals without diminishing them, or their work, and to bring back to life the Soviet 1930s. Part biography, part autobiography, this book radically alters our view of Russia's two greatest 20th century poets, providing memorable glimpses of numerous other figures from that partly forgotten and misunderstood world, and offers several unforgettable vignettes of Boris Pasternak. Gerstein's integrity and perceptive comment make her account compulsively readable and enables us to re-examine that extraordinary epoch.

Travels from St. Petersburgh Through Moscow, Grodno, Warsaw, Breslaw, &c. to Germany, in the Year 1805

Autor: Georg Reinbeck

Número de Páginas: 170

Casino Moscow

Autor: Matthew Brzezinski

Número de Páginas: 324

After awakening from its long communist slumber, Russia in the 1990s was a place where everything and everyone was for sale, and fortunes could be made and lost overnight. Into this free-market maelstrom stepped rookie Wall Street Journal reporter Matthew Brzezinski, who was immediately pulled into the mad world of Russian capitalism -- where corrupt bankers and fast-talking American carpetbaggers presided over the biggest boom and bust in financial history. Brzezinski's adventures take him from the solid-gold bathroom fixtures of Moscow's elite, to the last stop on the Trans-Siberian railway, where poverty-stricken citizens must buy water by the pail from the local crime lord, and back to civilization, to stumble into a drunken birthday bash for an ultra-nationalist politico. It's an irreverent, lurid, and hilarious account of one man's tumultuous trek through a capitalist market gone haywire -- and a nation whose uncertain future is marked by boundless hope and foreboding despair.

Lives of eminent Russian prelates: i. Nikon, sixth patriarch of Moscow (by R. Thornton), ii. Saint Demetrius, metropolitan of Rostoff, iii. Michael, metropolitan of Novgorod and S. Petersburg

Autor: Robinson Thornton

Número de Páginas: 172

Moscow Diary

Autor: Marjorie Farquharson

Número de Páginas: 312

This is the diary kept by Marjorie during the period in which she established Amnesty International`s Information Office in Moscow This was a unique venture for AI during a period of change. When Marjorie set up an Amnesty International`s office in Moscow in 1991, she was the first westerner working on human rights with a permanent base there.

Moscow ; or, The grandsire [by mrs. M. Mainwaring].

Autor: Mrs. M Mainwaring

Número de Páginas: 276

Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Autor: United States. Warren Commission

Número de Páginas: 912

Verslag van de presidentiële commissie belast met het onderzoek naar de moord op de Amerikaanse president John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963).

Warren Commission Report

Autor: United States. Warren Commission

Número de Páginas: 936

And conclusions -- The assassination -- The shots from the Texas School Book Depository -- The shots from the Texas School Book Depository (continued) -- The assassin -- The assassin (continued) -- Detention and death of Oswald -- Investigation of possible conspiracy -- Investigation of possible conspiracy (continued) -- Lee Harvey Oswald: background and possible motives -- The protection of the President -- The protection of the President (continued) -- Appendix 1: Executive order no.11130 -- Appendix 2: White House release -- Appendix 3: Senate Joint Resolution 137 -- Appendix 4: Biographical information and acknowledgments -- Appendix 5: List of witnesses -- Appendix 6: Commission procedures for the taking of testimony -- Appendix 7: A brief history of Presidential protection -- Appendix 8: Medical reports from doctors at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Tex -- Appendix 9: Autopsy report and supplemental report -- Appendix 10: Expert testimony -- Appendix 11: Reports relating to the interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Dallas Police Department -- Appendix 12: Speculations and rumors -- Appendix 13: Biography of Lee Harvey Oswald -- Appendix 14: Analysis of Lee Harvey...

Report

Autor: United States. Warren Commission

Número de Páginas: 924

Moscow; Or, The Grandsire

Autor: Mrs. Mainwaring

Número de Páginas: 302

Travels from Moscow, Through Prussia Germany, Switzerland, France and England

Autor: Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Karamzin

Número de Páginas: 290

Travels from Moscow, Through Prussia, Germany, Switzerland, France, and England ... Translated from the German. [The Translation Attributed to A. A. Feldborg.]

Autor: Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin

Número de Páginas: 290

Uncovering the Hidden

Autor: Gennady Estraikh

Número de Páginas: 200

Der Nister (Pinkhes Kahanovitsh, 1884-1950) is widely regarded as the most enigmatic author in modern Yiddish literature. His pseudonym, which translates as 'The Hidden One', is as puzzling as his diverse body of works, which range from mystical symbolist poetry and dark expressionist tales to realist historical epic. Although part of the Kiev Group of Yiddish writers, which also included David Bergelson and Peretz Markish, Der Nister remained at the margins of the Yiddish literary world throughout his life, mainstream success eluding him both in- and outside the Soviet Union. Yet, to judge from the quantity of recent research and translation work, der Nister is today one of the best remembered Yiddish modernists. The present collection of twelve original articles by international scholars re-examines Der Nister's cultural and literary legacy, bringing to light new aspects of his life and creative output.

Soviet Americana

Autor: Sergei Zhuk

Número de Páginas: 414

The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US. To shed light onto this important, yet under-studied, academic community, Sergei Zhuk here explores the personal histories of prominent Soviet Americanists, considering the myriad cultural influences - from John Wayne's bravado in the film Stagecoach to Miles Davis - that shaped their identities, careers and academic interests. Zhuk's compelling account draws on a wide range of understudied archival documents, periodicals, letters and diaries as well as more than 100 exclusive interviews with prominent Americanists to take the reader from the post-war origins of American studies, via the extremes of the Cold War, thaw and perestroika, to Putin's Russia. Soviet Americana is a comprehensive insight into shifting attitudes towards the US throughout the twentieth century and an essential resource for all Soviet and Cold War historians.

Playful Letters

Autor: Erika Mary Boeckeler

Número de Páginas: 311

Alphabetic letters are ubiquitous, multivalent, and largely ignored. Playful Letters reveals their important cultural contributions through Alphabetics—a new interpretive model for understanding artistic production that attends to the signifying interplay of the graphemic, phonemic, lexical, and material capacities of letters. A key period for examining this interplay is the century and a half after the invention of printing, with its unique media ecology of print, manuscript, sound, and image. Drawing on Shakespeare, anthropomorphic typography, figured letters, and Cyrillic pedagogy and politics, this book explores the ways in which alphabetic thinking and writing inform literature and the visual arts, and it develops reading strategies for the “letterature” that underwrites such cultural production. Playful Letters begins with early modern engagements with the alphabet and the human body—an intersection where letterature emerges with startling force. The linking of letters and typography with bodies produced a new kind of literacy. In turn, educational habits that shaped letter learning and writing permeated the interrelated practices of typography, orthography, and...

Moscow USA

Autor: Gordon Stevens

Número de Páginas: 458

A major international thriller now available as an ebook for the first time.

Through Scandinavia to Moscow

Autor: William Edwards

Número de Páginas: 211

"Through Scandinavia to Moscow" by William Seymour Edwards. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Haunting of Moscow House

Autor: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

Número de Páginas: 385

In this elegant gothic horror tale set in post-revolutionary Russia, two formerly aristocratic sisters race to uncover their family’s long-buried secrets in a house haunted by a past dangerous—and deadly—to remember. It is the summer of 1921, and a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva’s ancestral home in Moscow, a stately mansion falling into disrepair and decay. The remaining members of their family are ordered to move into the cramped attic, while the officials take over an entire wing of grand rooms downstairs. The sisters understand it is the way of things and know they must forget their noble upbringing to make their way in this new Soviet Russia. But the house begins to whisper of a traumatic past not as dead as they thought. Eager to escape it and their unwelcome new landlords, Irina and Lili find jobs with the recently arrived American Relief Administration, meant to ease the post-revolutionary famine in Russia. For the sisters, the ARA provides much-needed food and employment, as well as a chance for sensible Irina to help those less fortunate and artistic Lili to express herself for a good cause. It might just lead them to love, too. But at ...

Sport and Apartheid South Africa

Autor: Michelle M. Sikes , Toby C. Rider , Matthew P. Llewellyn

Número de Páginas: 266

As athletes of today grapple with how to use their public platforms to fight for activist causes, Sport and Apartheid South Africa: Histories of Politics, Power, and Protest examines a set of longer histories of sport, ‘race’, and activism. The book seeks to uncover and understand new historical aspects of apartheid and sport, challenge myths, and rethink dominant narratives. It examines the subject of racially segregated sport in South Africa from national and transnational perspectives, asking questions about how athletes and administrators, transnational anti-apartheid groups and activists, and politicians around the world interpreted and internalized racial segregation in South Africa. By connecting the local to the global, this book illuminates the ways in which apartheid sport animated national and international debates, ranging from racism and human rights to Cold War politics and post-colonialism. Sport and Apartheid South Africa is a significant new contribution to the study of race and politics in sport and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of History, Politics, International Relations, Sociology, and Political Geography. The...