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Author : Suzanne Rosenberg
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000016892620
Author : Marat Akchurin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781663209122
Red Odyssey is a travel book written by Marat Akchurin for those who have a passion for reading good adventure and historical fiction. Through a kaleidoscope of individual perspectives, the author explores and describes the collective historical experience of a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional nation living in a crumbling totalitarian state. Red Odyssey is not a political treatise, sociological analysis, or history book about Central Asia during the former Soviet Union. It is rather a tale of adventures of a time traveler trying to survive in a surrealistic society permeated with hypocrisy. The ruling regime is captive to its own lies. So it falsifies the past, it falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. Imperial propaganda transforms reality into fiction. The goal of Red Odyssey is to reverse the fabricated verisimilitude of their false utopia into the harsh truth of reality. Akchurin's keen, perceptive eye, his taste for adventure, and his intimate knowledge of this fractured superpower—its history, cultures, legends, folklores, politics, and ethnicities—leave no stone unturned in his relentless exploration of places long ignored and misunderstood by the West.
Author : Morris Sharnoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:233994053
Author : Yuri Y. Karash
Publisher : AIAA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1563473194
Korash has background in both space policy and international relations, has been a journalist in both Russia and the US, was considered a candidate for cosmonaut when the Soviet Union broke up, and was involved in the 1993 joint Shuttle-Mir missions. He traces the Soviet/Russian view of the shift from competition to cooperation with the US space program. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Roy Dews
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781458219664
Russia and the Trans-Siberian Railroad had been a great interest of author Roy Dews for many years. He then learned his brother-in-law, Andy Anderson, shared the same interest. An adventure was born. In The Russian Odyssey, Dews recounts the details of the fifty-two day journey he and Anderson experienced beginning June 7 of 1993. In this travelogue, Dews narrates the ins and outs of trip that originated in Atlanta, Georgia, and took the pair to Warsaw, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland and culminated in a 5,810-mile trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Moscow to Vladivostok. Written in a diary format, Dews shares the highs and lows and the challenges and successes as the pair traversed through Europe and Russia. With photos included, The Russian Odyssey not only offers a recap of Dews’ experiences, but it provides insight into the history, culture, people, and sights and sounds of a travel abroad.
Author : Elena Aleksandrovna Skrjabina,Norman Luxenburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0887385117
Author : Donald E. Nuechterlein
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813181714
“A fascinating ride through a period of history in which United States foreign policies and relationships matured greatly.” —Ralph C. Bledsoe, Special Assistant to the President, 1982–88 The Cold War—that long ideological conflict between the world’s two superpowers—had a profound effect not only on nations but on individuals, especially all those involved in setting and implementing the policies that shaped the struggle. Donald Nuechterlein was one such individual and this is his story. Although based in fact, the narrative reads like fiction, and it takes the reader behind the scenes as no purely factual telling of that complex story can. Presented as the story of David and Helen Bruening and their family, A Cold War Odyssey carries us across three continents. Against a backdrop of national and international events, we follow the Bruenings through five decades as David’s governmental and academic assignments take them to all corners of the world. In the tradition of Herman Wouk’s Winds of War, the Bruenings’ personal and professional odyssey offers us a microcosm of world history in the second half of the twentieth century. Through the acute eyes of these participant observers, we see the partitioning of Europe after World War II, Korea and Vietnam, Watergate and Iran, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union and, with it, the end of the Cold War. With each succeeding episode, our understanding of the causes and consequences of international struggle is deepened through the Bruenings’ experience.
Author : Michaela Praisler,Oana-Celia Gheorghiu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527569591
This volume looks into the ways in which film has contaminated and re-shaped culture(s) and the collective unconscious, at both local and global levels, arguing that our lives have been impacted by the ‘then’ that we keep revisiting, lest we forget. It takes the reader from the Berlin Wall to China, and from the terror of communist political prisons and labour camps to the rosy image promoted by propaganda. A key point throughout the text is its interdisciplinary nature, as it brings together literature and film scholars, directors, sociologists and philosophers, whose overall conclusion is that communism, lingering in mentalities, still needs interrogation. Structured along four parts which trace a Homeric (or rather Joycean) journey to a home metonymysed by the long-awaited freedom, this book sets out from the gloomiest aspects of totalitarianism in the Romanian, Serbian and Soviet ‘Hades(es)’ of traumatic psychological and physical experiences and of imposed silencing. The second part gathers together case studies of films illustrating more optimistic views of communism as ‘spring’ (in the USSR) or as a ‘golden age’ (in Romania), thus narcotising the communist ‘subjects’ and preventing them from seeing the actual inferno. The third section offers filmic accounts of the aftermaths of communism, engaging the readers in a nostalgic process that revisits, questions, reflects on and remembers communism on a larger, world stage. The coda rounds up the volume (and the journey therein) by crossing genre frontiers to written narratives with a cinematic component.
Author : Nancy Seifer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781465333681
Russian Odyssey is the story of a seeker whose quest leads her back to the unfinished business of a previous lifetime. Unaware of her souls hidden agenda, she first visits the Soviet Union as a citizen diplomat. While there, she is inspired to write a book about the Soul of Russia. Through the ensuing interplay between her own soul and the Russian soul, during the 1990s, she ultimately discovers the purpose of her lifes journey. Russian Odyssey is the outcome of her decade-long struggle. It is an honest book about the challenges faced by seekers of Truth on the threshold of the Aquarian Age.
Author : Frederick Kempe
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025202279
From the Berlin Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal--author of Divorcing the Dictator--comes a dramatic account of an expedition to an almost mythical place, the land of Russia's grandest dreams and cruelest nightmares. In a place where contradictions arise at ever turn, Kempe found not only an adventure but an unparalleled window into the Russian soul. 8 pages of photographs.
Author : Marat Akchurin
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 0436200260
Rejseskildring fra de russiske byer og republikker, der i de seneste år har været nævnt i avisernes overskrifter
Author : Charles Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999603205
It seems every day we hear about Russia. But how much do we really know about that far off place? Travel back in time with the author and get a bird's eye view of life in the old Soviet Union - the society that spawned today's Russia and made indelible imprints on her history and culture. For over thirty years during the Cold War, the former United States Information Agency (USIA) sent cultural exchange exhibits to the Soviet Union and other Iron Curtain countries. This book describes in detail what it was like to serve as a Russian-speaking "guide" at the various cities in which the exhibit Research and Development in the USA was shown in 1972 and contains examples depicting the lives of average Soviet citizens of the time. This is what it's like to live in a society run by a large, omnipotent government. There can be no better time than now to look back at this history. Had the Soviet Union survived as a country, 2017 would have marked the 100-th anniversary of its founding. As we strive to understand Russia's current policies and actions, we need to look at her Soviet roots to fully understand them.
Author : Olga Ilyin
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0030000785
Memoir of conditions in Russia during the Russian Revolution. Published under the same title (New York, 1984).
Author : Rachel Polonsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781429974905
When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous neighbors was the ruthless apparatchik Vyacheslav Molotov, a henchman for Stalin who was a participant in the collectivizations and the Great Purge—and also an ardent bibliophile. In what was formerly Molotov's apartment, Polonsky uncovers an extensive library and an old magic lantern—two things that lead her on an extraordinary journey throughout Russia and ultimately renew her vision of the country and its people. In Molotov's Magic Lantern, Polonsky visits the haunted cities and vivid landscapes of the books from Molotov's library: works by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Akhmatova, and others, some of whom were sent to the Gulag by the very man who collected their books. With exceptional insight and beautiful prose, Polonsky writes about the longings and aspirations of these Russian writers and others in the course of her travels from the Arctic to Siberia and from the forests around Moscow to the vast steppes. A singular homage to Russian history and culture, Molotov's Magic Lantern evokes the spirit of the great artists and the haunted past of a country ravaged by war, famine, and totalitarianism.
Author : Elena Skrjabina
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000949650
Elena Skrjabina's struggle to survive World War II began in 1941, with the blockade of Leningrad, which is described in this section of her diary. Elena, her two sons and mother follow a trail of terror across Lake Ladoga, endure hunger, bombs and the cold before finding safety in Pyatigorsk.