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Author: Vladimir Arkhipov
Publisher: Fuel
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book features highlights from Russian artist Vladimir Arkhipov's collection of unique inventions. These objects were made by ordinary Russians, at a time when the Soviet Union was in a state of collapse, often inspired by a lack of instant access to manufactured goods.
Author: Neil Robinson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2019-04-16
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1509525181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVladimir Putin’s return to the Kremlin for a fourth presidential term in 2018 has seen Russian democracy weaken further and Russia’s relations with the West deteriorate seriously. Yet, within Russia, Putin’s position remains unchallenged and his foreign policy battles have received widespread public support. But is Putin as safe as his approval ratings lead us to believe? And how secure is the regime that he heads? In this new book, Neil Robinson places contemporary Russian politics in historical perspective to argue that Putin’s regime has not overcome the problems that underpinned the momentous changes in twentieth-century Russian history when the country veered from tsarism to Soviet rule to post-communist chaos. The first part of the book, outlining why crises have been perennial problems for Russia, is followed by an exploration of contemporary Russian political institutions and policy to show how Putin has stabilised Russian politics. But, while Putin’s achievements as a politician have been considerable in strengthening his personal position, they have not dealt successfully with the enduring problem of the Russian state’s functionality. Like other Russian rulers, Putin has been much better at establishing a political system that supports his rule than he has at building up a state that can deliver material wealth and protection to the Russian people. As a result, Robinson argues, Russia has been and remains vulnerable to political crisis and regime change.
Author: Гаито Газданов
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2009-04-27
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0810125587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing together episodes of rich atmosphere, this novel is as deep and brooding as the Paris nights that serve as its backdrop. Russian writer Gaito Gazdanov arrived in Paris, as so many did, between the wars and would go on, with this fourth novel, to give readers a crisp rendering of a living city changing beneath its people’s feet. Night Roads is loosely based on the author’s experiences as a cab driver in those disorienting, often brutal years, and the narrator moves from episode to episode, holding court with many but sharing his mind with only a few. His companions are drawn straight out of the Parisian past: the legendary courtesan Jeanne Raldi, now in her later days, and an alcoholic philosopher who goes by the name of Plato. Along the way, the driver picks up other characters, such as the dull thinker who takes on the question of the meaning of life only to be driven insane. The dark humor of that young man’s failure against the narrator’s authentic, personal explorations of the same subject is captured in this first English translation. With his trademark émigré eye, Gazdanov pairs humor with cruelty, sharpening the bite of both.
Author: Gerald Stanton Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 402
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book consists of the work of twenty-three poets, living in Russia and abroad and writing during the period since 1975. It is the first dual-language anthology in many years.
Author: Mikhail Suslov
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789004401907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a comprehensive analysis of contemporary Russian conservatism. It studies how the "conservative turn" under Putin manifested itself in the debates on geopolitics, morality, religion, the nation, and the Soviet past.
Author: Diana Gasparyan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-30
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9004465820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an in-depth investigation into the life and work of one of the most prominent philosophers of Russian and Russian-Soviet history, Merab Mamardashvili, all of whose ideas are collected here in one book. However, each of his ideas leads much further - deep into philosophy itself, its cultural origins, and to the basis and roots of all human thought.
Author: Vlad Strukov
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016-04-12
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 1474407668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalysing films by established directors such as Sokurov and Zel'dovich, as well as lesser-known filmmakers like Balabanov and Kalatozishvili, this book explores the particular style of film presentation that has emerged in Russia since 2000, characterised by its use of highly abstract concepts and visual language.
Author: Nicholas Rzhevsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780521477994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to modern Russian culture, from language and religion to literature and the arts.
Author: Matthew Cullerne Bown
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author discusses how Russian art has evolved from icon painting through to Socialist Realism. He examines the work of approximately 50 contemporary artists, all of whom are living and working in the Soviet Union and conveys a general view of life in the USSR.
Author: Vitalina Koval
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781571818850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe position of Russia has always been difficult. In spite of the Revolution in 1917, the legal, economic, social and political inequalities between men and women have remained severe. For more than seventy years the official propaganda of the Soviet system deliberately concealed from the public, in the West as well as the East, the actual position of women, presenting it in rose-colored hues and proclaiming that, under socialism, the issue of the position of women in society had been resolved once and for all. However, the opposite was true: women increasingly suffered from overt and covert discrimination. In fact, the discrepancy between the official and actual positioning of working women became so acute that it led to serious social problems. The democratic reforms of the mid-1980s brought some positive changes at last; for the first time, the "women's issue" was recognized as an urgent socio-political problem requiring serious investigation and practical measures. The authors of this collection of original essays, most of whom are social scientists at the Moscow Academy of Science, examine those aspects of life of women in Russia today which aremost pressing, not least those arising from the multi-ethnic composition of the Russian Federation that comprises more than one hundred different nationalities and in which women constitute fifty-three per cent of the population.
