Heyna S Socialist Wonderland

Author : Andrej Voth
Publisher : Andrej Media
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781777993115

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Heyna's Socialist Wonderland by Andrej Voth Pdf

Growing up in Soviet Siberia as the son of devout Christian parents, Andrej Voth was no stranger to the pitfalls of adhering to a spiritual faith in the former communist USSR. Here, he tells the story of his formative years and shares his journey as the young boy (and then man) navigates the contrasting ideologies of Christianity and Socialism. Andrej’s journey gives the reader an insight into daily life in USSR from 1964 through 1977. We follow him as he spends a large portion of his childhood targeted by his communist party-adhering schoolteachers, witnessing his father taken into Soviet labour camp, and as the KGB relentlessly oppresses his underground church. This is followed by two years of service in the Soviet Army, and eventually, his family escapes to capitalist Germany and beyond. It is a story of unwavering positivity in the face of adversity and persecution and one that is absolutely recommended to readers who are curious about life behind the iron curtain of the former USSR!

Author : Andrej Voth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1777993105

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Heyna's Socialist Wonderland by Andrej Voth Pdf

Growing up in Soviet Siberia as the son of devout Christian parents, Andrej Voth was no stranger to the pitfalls of adhering to a spiritual faith in the former communist USSR. Here, he tells the story of his formative years and shares his journey as the young boy (and then man) navigates the contrasting ideologies of Christianity and Socialism. Andrej's journey gives the reader an insight into daily life in USSR from 1964 through 1977. We follow him as he spends a large portion of his childhood targeted by his communist party-adhering schoolteachers, witnessing his father taken into Soviet labour camp, and as the KGB relentlessly oppresses his underground church. This is followed by two years of service in the Soviet Army, and eventually, his family escapes to capitalist Germany and beyond. It is a story of unwavering positivity in the face of adversity and persecution and one that is absolutely recommended to readers who are curious about life behind the iron curtain of the former USSR! Andrej Voth was born in Prokopievsk, Siberia and grew up under socialism. After attending eight years of the Soviet school system, he served in the army. Shortly after being discharged from military service, his family was forced to leave the USSR and settle in Germany. Finding new freedoms, he explored and visited 30 plus countries and lived in four. He desired knowledge and graduated from academic institutions in Germany, Canada, France and Australia. Questions in world religions, anthropology, human rights, theology, and faith became his life passions. To support his global adventures, he worked various positions from caretaker to construction, from semi-truck driver to seminary professor. Now, semiretired, Andrej and his wife Erna call northern Alberta their home. They are parents of two grown-up sons, one daughter-in-law and one sweet grandchild. Love for everything antique fills his free time restoring old trucks, furniture and houses. Skills he is working on presently are fishing and hunting.

Author : Anna Voth Hildebrandt
Publisher : Andrej Media
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781777993191

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Anna by Anna Voth Hildebrandt Pdf

Step into the heart of Ukraine’s tumultuous upheaval with Anna, a resilient soul born into a Mennonite farm family. Reforms following the 1917 socialist revolution shattered her once-peaceful countryside’s tranquillity, plunging the nation into chaos and lawlessness. In the ensuing battleground, the ideals of justice clash with violent revolutionaries and looting gangs, leaving devastation in their wake. Fleeing the horrors, Anna’s family seeks refuge in Eastern Siberia, only to find themselves labelled again as “dangerous social elements” under the Soviet iron-fisted regime. In the shadow of the Gulag’s torture prisons and forced labour camps, Anna and her family confront the harsh reality of survival, a period often likened to ‘the other Holocaust.’ Most of her siblings and also her father and mother die from hunger, poverty, imprisonment and executions. “To Me, You Are Good.” is a gripping narrative that illuminates the harrowing experiences of those who endured Stalin’s socialist terror. Beyond a tale of suffering, this book is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and an unwavering faith in a benevolent God. The saga unfolds over seventy years as Anna’s journey leads her from the USSR to West Germany, a quest for peace, freedom, and love. Against the backdrop of political conflicts, both societal and personal, the narrative weaves personal stories with historical nuances. This compelling book is a must-read for those intrigued by Ukrainian, Russian, Mennonite, and Christian history. “To Me, You Are Good.” invites readers on a moving journey through the shadows of adversity, where the light of hope and enduring faith in God’s justice ultimately triumphs.

Author : Leonora Carrington
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681374642

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The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington Pdf

An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is “hard of hearing” but “full of life.”

Author : Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,Nils Bubandt,Elaine Gan,Heather Anne Swanson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452954493

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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,Nils Bubandt,Elaine Gan,Heather Anne Swanson Pdf

Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth. As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch. Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.

Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006489038

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Men Like Gods by Herbert George Wells Pdf

Author : Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0826402682

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Critical Essays: Hans Magnus Enzensberger by Hans Magnus Enzensberger Pdf

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486117119

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A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain Pdf

Successor to Twain's first collection of travel memoirs takes a second look at Europe. This time, his amusement bears a more cynical cast, as he sees the sights through older and more experienced eyes.

Author : Laurens Van Der Post
Publisher : Random House
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407072944

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A Story Like the Wind by Laurens Van Der Post Pdf

This is a story of an almost vanished Africa; a world of myth and magic in which the indigenous peoples of the continent lived for uncountable centuries before the Europeans came to shatter it. The main character is a boy who has a relationship with this Africa not unlike Kipling's Kim with the antique world of India. François Joubert, whose Huguenot ancestors settled in Africa three hundred years ago, lives as a solitary child on his father's farm. 'Hunter's Drift'. Here, in the far interior of Africa, he experiences the wonder and mystery of an ageless, natural primitive life, his perception of it heightened by the influence of three people in particular - his Bushman nurse, the head herdsman of the local Matabele clan (his father's chosen partners in the pioneering of Hunter's Drift), and a hunter of legendary fame, now the chief ranger of a vast game reserve nearby. François' meeting with an untamed Bushman, Xhabbo, whose intuitive teaching nourishes his spirit; his strange pilgrimage to the distant krall of a powerful witch-doctor; his dramatic encounter and relationship with the daughter of a retired colonial governor; all are examples of African point and European counterpoint, in a highly original theme, moving to a strangely presaged and omened climax.

Author : Jean Webster
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775417149

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When Patty Went to College by Jean Webster Pdf

When Patty Went to College is a humorous novel about life in an all-girls' college at the turn of the century. Patty is a happy, fun-loving prankster who defends the weak and uses her clever brain only when it suits her. The end of the novel sees her contemplating life outside of college, and wondering whether her misbehavior will stand her in good stead for it.

Author : Leonora Carrington
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681370613

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Down Below by Leonora Carrington Pdf

A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism's most compelling figures In 1937 Leonora Carrington—later to become one of the twentieth century’s great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild—was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became “the mirror of the earth”—of all worlds in a hostile universe—and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach “of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings,” she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word Revelation. This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctor’s sadistic course of treatment. In Down Below she describes her ordeal—in which the agonizing and the marvelous were equally combined—with a startling, almost impersonal precision and without a trace of self-pity. Like Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Down Below brings the hallucinatory logic of madness home.

Author : Alan Hollinghurst
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781596918085

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The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst Pdf

Winner of the Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC award A New York Times Bestseller (Extended) An LA Times Bestseller A Northern California Bestseller A Sunday Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From Alan Hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, who is highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black man who works as a clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this is a major work by one of our finest writers.

Author : Ricardo Flores Mag�n
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781904859246

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Dreams of Freedom by Ricardo Flores Mag�n Pdf

The words of this Mexican American working-class hero brought to English-language readers for the first time.

Author : Jean Webster
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486114330

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Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster Pdf

A spirited orphan girl and her wealthy but mysterious benefactor lead readers down a delightful road filled with twists and turns of young romance. 33 black-and-white illustrations.

Author : Geoffrey Miller
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307813749

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The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller Pdf

At once a pioneering study of evolution and an accessible and lively reading experience, a book that offers the most convincing—and radical—explanation for how and why the human mind evolved. Consciousness, morality, creativity, language, and art: these are the traits that make us human. Scientists have traditionally explained these qualities as merely a side effect of surplus brain size, but Miller argues that they were sexual attractors, not side effects. He bases his argument on Darwin’ s theory of sexual selection, which until now has played second fiddle to Darwin’ s theory of natural selection, and draws on ideas and research from a wide range of fields, including psychology, economics, history, and pop culture. Witty, powerfully argued, and continually thought-provoking, The Mating Mind is a landmark in our understanding of our own species.